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merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections['Policy'].background.start =

Example

This scripts sets a background on a Print section using absolute positioning.

var activeSection = merge.template.contexts.PRINT.sections['Section

1'];

activeSection.background.source = BackgroundResource.RESOURCE_PDF;

activeSection.background.url = "images/somepage.pdf";

activeSection.background.position = MediaPosition.ABSOLUTE;

activeSection.background.left = "10mm";

activeSection.background.top = "10mm";

You could replace the last three lines of the previous script by the following line to scale the

Print section background to Media size:

activeSection.background.position = MediaPosition.FIT_TO_MEDIA;

Dynamically adding sections (cloning)

This topic explains how to clone a section in a Control Script, Print sections can be cloned, so

that a document can have a dynamic number of sections, based on data. This is particularly

useful when the record set defines one or more PDFs (e.g. insurance policies) per recipient.

Via a Control Script, for each PDF a section can be cloned and each clone can be given one of

the PDFs as background (see "Control Script: Setting a Print section's background" on

page246). For each page in the PDF, a page will be added to the section.

For information about Control Scripts in general, see "Control Scripts" on page239 and

"Control Script API" on page476. If you don't know how to write scripts, see "Writing your own

scripts" on page221.

Cloning a section

To clone a section, first use the clone() function and then add the clone to the Print context

before or after a specific section, using addAfter() or addBefore():

var clone = printSections["Section 1"].clone();

printSections["Section 1"].addAfter(clone);

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