Help with PDF creation using CFDOCUMENT / iText

Hi everyone,
Finally made the jump to CF7 after sticking with 5 for way
too long and now have an urgent need to generate PDF.
<cfdocument> seems to do better than anything else at
converting HTML styled with CSS, but falls short in a few
fundamental areas. What I need to do ( to name 3) is:
* Generate a table of contents - including page numbers
* Have far greater control over the headers / footers
* Swap page orientation mid-document
I can get round the page orientation thing by creating each
section as an individual PDF and gluing them back together using
PaulH's excellent PDF concatenation code. Using <cfdocument>
I can reserve space for the headers / footers, and add a table of
contents with placeholders for the numbers.
Now, my question: Will I be able to rewrite all the page
numbers, finish off the table of contents and headers / footers
using iText? i.e. traverse the concatenated PDF file, rewrite the
headers / footers, work out the page numbers and rewrite the TOC?
I'm not asking for sample code or even a how to - just a
heads-up from some who knows iText well and can quickly say whether
this is feasible.
I hope it is because my alternative approach is to go down
the xsl-fo route which I suspect will be more effort in the long
run.
Thanks
PJ

as alternative solution you might check activepdf products.
www.activepdf.com
cheers
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