/**
* This example was written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question:
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33394158/add-header-to-pdf-from-html-using-itext
*/
package sandbox.events;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Element;
import com.itextpdf.text.ExceptionConverter;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.ColumnText;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPageEventHelper;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.tool.xml.ElementList;
import com.itextpdf.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import sandbox.WrapToTest;
@WrapToTest
public class HtmlHeaderFooter {
public static final String DEST = "results/events/html_header_footer.pdf";
public static final String HEADER = "
";
public static final String FOOTER = "";
public class HeaderFooter extends PdfPageEventHelper {
protected ElementList header;
protected ElementList footer;
public HeaderFooter() throws IOException {
header = XMLWorkerHelper.parseToElementList(HEADER, null);
footer = XMLWorkerHelper.parseToElementList(FOOTER, null);
}
@Override
public void onEndPage(PdfWriter writer, Document document) {
try {
ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(writer.getDirectContent());
ct.setSimpleColumn(new Rectangle(36, 832, 559, 810));
for (Element e : header) {
ct.addElement(e);
}
ct.go();
ct.setSimpleColumn(new Rectangle(36, 10, 559, 32));
for (Element e : footer) {
ct.addElement(e);
}
ct.go();
} catch (DocumentException de) {
throw new ExceptionConverter(de);
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
File file = new File(DEST);
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
new HtmlHeaderFooter().createPdf(DEST);
}
public void createPdf(String filename) throws IOException, DocumentException {
// step 1
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 36, 36, 36, 72);
// step 2
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
writer.setPageEvent(new HeaderFooter());
// step 3
document.open();
// step 4
for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++)
document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
document.newPage();
document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
document.newPage();
document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
// step 5
document.close();
}
}