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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 saucer R8 with iText2.0.8 I 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 div contains 2 other divs with images and my footer is just for page numbering. The html is being put into a StringBuffer called 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
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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> If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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