Question

i need to generate pdf files in a specific layout with support for multiple pdf pages etc.. I can imagine that i could render gsp output to a pdf but how can i handle the concept of multiple pages? Any suggestion?

Answer 1

i am using flying saucer, through the rendering plugin: http://www.grails.org/plugin/rendering

For multiple pages, use some CSS2 like:

@page {
  size: 210mm 297mm; // A4 format 
  @bottom-center { content: element(footer);} // if you want footer
  @top-center { content: element(header); } // if you want header
}

div.break {
  page-break-after:always;
}

Then you will have a page break each time you use <div class="break"/>
your header will be into <div id="header"/> and your footer into <div id="footer"/>