Generating header/footer with flying saucer (xHTMLRenderer) and iText
Solution 1
Here is a working example:
package com.sg2net.test;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
public class XHTMLRenderer8 {
/**
* @author Giovanni Cuccu
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, DocumentException {
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
String content="<html><head><style>\n" +
"div.header {\n" +
"display: block; text-align: center;\n" +
"position: running(header);}\n" +
"div.footer {\n" +
"display: block; text-align: center;\n" +
"position: running(footer);}\n" +
"div.content {page-break-after: always;}" +
"@page { @top-center { content: element(header) }}\n " +
"@page { @bottom-center { content: element(footer) }}\n" +
"</style></head>\n" +
"<body><div class='header'>Header</div><div class='footer'>Footer</div><div class='content'>Page1</div><div>Page2</div></body></html>";
renderer.setDocumentFromString(content);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(new FileOutputStream("test.pdf"));
}
}
This is using the following XHTML document
<html>
<head>
<style>
div.header {
display: block; text-align: center;
position: running(header);
}
div.footer {
display: block; text-align: center;
position: running(footer);
}
div.content {page-break-after: always;}
@page {
@top-center { content: element(header) }
}
@page {
@bottom-center { content: element(footer) }
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class='header'>Header</div>
<div class='footer'>Footer</div>
<div class='content'>Page1</div>
<div>Page2</div>
</body>
</html>
Solution 2
After researching and testing a lot, I just came up with a solution that really works.
You can control:
- header height by editing margin-top;
- footer height by editing margin-bottom;
- content width by editing div.content width.
Page numbers are displayed at footer.
See code below:
<html>
<head>
<style>
@page{
@bottom-left {
content: element(footer);
vertical-align: top;
padding-top: 10px;
/* border: solid red; */
}
@top-right {
content: element(header);
vertical-align: bottom;
padding-bottom: 10px;
/* border: solid green; */
}
size: A4 portrait;
margin-top:5.5cm;
margin-left:3cm;
margin-right:2cm;
margin-bottom:3.3cm;
}
div.header {
display: block;
position: running(header);
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
div.footer {
margin-top: 0.5cm;
display: block;
position: running(footer);
border-top: 1px solid black;
}
div.content {
/* border: solid purple; */
display: block;
width: 15.4cm;
text-align: justify;
}
#pagenumber:before {
content: counter(page);
}
#pagecount:before {
content: counter(pages);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
This is the header that will repeat on every page at top
</div>
<div class="footer" >
<p>This is the footer that will repeat on every page at bottom</p>
<p>Page <span id="pagenumber"></span> of <span id="pagecount"></span></p>/
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
<p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p><p>This is the content</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hope it helps!!!
Solution 3
for itext using java checkout this
public class HeaderAndFooter extends PdfPageEventHelper {
public void onEndPage (PdfWriter writer, Document document) {
Rectangle rect = writer.getBoxSize("art");
switch(writer.getPageNumber() % 2) {
case 0:
ColumnText.showTextAligned(writer.getDirectContent(),
Element.ALIGN_RIGHT, new Phrase("even header"),
rect.getBorderWidthRight(), rect.getBorderWidthTop(), 0);
break;
case 1:
ColumnText.showTextAligned(writer.getDirectContent(),
Element.ALIGN_CENTER, new Phrase(String.format("%d", writer.getPageNumber())),
300f, 62f, 0);
break;
}
ColumnText.showTextAligned(writer.getDirectContent(),
Element.ALIGN_CENTER, new Phrase(String.format("%d", writer.getPageNumber())),
(2f + 4f) / 2, 2f - 18, 0);
}
}
using below one in ur pdfwriter
HeaderAndFooter event = new HeaderAndFooter();
writer.setPageEvent(event);
flyingCaffine
Updated on April 01, 2020Comments
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flyingCaffine about 4 years
I realize this question has been asked before (I looked at all the solutions and tried them all) but I am still trying to generate a pdf document with a header and footer that repeat on every page.
I am using
flying saucerR8 withiText2.0.8I have tried many different methods to get it working but so far to no avail. Some methods I tested out were https://gist.github.com/626264, using running elements and margin boxs http://pigeonholdings.com/projects/flyingsaucer/R8/doc/guide/users-guide-R8.html#xil_40 (css3 feature), a guide for flying saucer r7 that doesn't work for r8 http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/06/26/generating-pdfs-with-flying-saucer-and-itext.html#page-specific-features, a long with many other methods which did not work for me.My header
divcontains 2 other divs with images and my footer is just for page numbering. The html is being put into aStringBuffercalled buf.buf.append("<head>"); buf.append("<title>blabla</title> "); buf.append("<style type='text/css' media='print'> "); buf.append("@page { size:8.5in 11in; padding:1em; @bottom-left { content: element(footer); } } "); buf.append("#footer { font-size: 90%; font-style: italic; position: running(footer); top: 0; left: 0; }"); buf.append("#pagenumber:before { content: counter(page); } "); buf.append("#pagecount:before { content: counter(pages); } "); buf.append("</style></head>"); buf.append("<body>"); buf.append("<div class='header' style='clear:both;'>"); buf.append("<div id='moneyLogo' style='float:left'>"); buf.append("<img src='logo.jpg' alt='Some alt text' />"); buf.append("</div>"); buf.append("<div id='canLogo' style='float:right'>"); buf.append("<img src='someImg.gif' alt='alt text' />"); buf.append("</div>"); buf.append("<h3 style='text-align:center; clear:both;'>alt text</h3>"); buf.append("<div style='text-align:center;'>"); buf.append("Some texy text"); buf.append("<br />");); buf.append("</div>"); buf.append("</div><br /><br />"); buf.append("<div id='footer'> Page <span id='pagenumber'/> of <span id='pagecount'/> </div>"); buf.append("</body>"); buf.append("</html>");My pdf generates fine except for the fact that the header only appears on the first page and the footer only appears on the bottom of the last page. When I put the html through the w3c validator it came out fine, but when I used their CSS validator it said that their were parse errors in the line
@page { size:8.5in 11in; padding:1em; @bottom-left { content: element(footer); } }As far as I could tell from all the guides I was reading this was fine. I also heard that the W3C CSS validator was incomplete for CSS3 specs so I assumed it was the validator who was wrong.
If anyone could give me some tips of where to look or ideas it would make my week :)
p.s. Has to use Flying saucer R8 and/or iText 2.0.8