clone method

clone()

Creates a deep clone of this object.

def clone(self):
    ...

Examples

Shows how to update all the fields in a document immediately before saving it to PDF.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(doc)

# Insert text with PAGE and NUMPAGES fields. These fields do not display the correct value in real time.
# We will need to manually update them using updating methods such as "Field.Update()", and "Document.UpdateFields()"
# each time we need them to display accurate values.
builder.write("Page ")
builder.insert_field("PAGE", "")
builder.write(" of ")
builder.insert_field("NUMPAGES", "")
builder.insert_break(aw.BreakType.PAGE_BREAK)
builder.writeln("Hello World!")

# Create a "PdfSaveOptions" object that we can pass to the document's "save" method
# to modify how that method converts the document to .PDF.
options = aw.saving.PdfSaveOptions()

# Set the "update_fields" property to "False" to not update all the fields in a document right before a save operation.
# This is the preferable option if we know that all our fields will be up to date before saving.
# Set the "update_fields" property to "True" to iterate through all the document
# fields and update them before we save it as a PDF. This will make sure that all the fields will display
# the most accurate values in the PDF.
options.update_fields = update_fields

# We can clone PdfSaveOptions objects.
options_copy = options.clone()

doc.save(ARTIFACTS_DIR + "PdfSaveOptions.update_fields.pdf", options)

See Also

PdfSaveOptions.zoom_factor property