Write to PDF page after NextPage

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I am creating a multipage PDF report and would like to update amounts on an earlier page. In short, I want to put a category name and a dollar amount on a line. The on indented lines below it, there would be name of sub-categories with dollar amounts. If there are enough sub-categories to need a second page, when I get to the end of the sub-categories, I want to go back and update the amount for the main category on the first page.

The PDFDocument has a CurrentPage property, but I can’t figure out how to reference its graphics property to be able to update it.

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You should not go back, you should precalculate your needs and put them there once.

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If you set the CurrentPage to a previous page, that will be the current Graphic context to draw into.

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In this case, you should reserve space to write later content, instead of “updating” values.

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I tried Rick A’s suggestion of precalculating. Not only is it faster and less code, it provides all the data if the user chooses to download it as a text file.

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