If you search through this mailing list for HeaderFooter, you'll find many posts similar to this one, posted two weeks ago:
http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg45755.html That should point you in the right direction. ---mr. bean Mark Davidson-5 wrote: > > Ok, so I read through the documentation looking for the answer, I > couldn't find it there. Hopefully this won't get a [newbie] tag! > > Note: I'm using iText-2.1.7.jar > > Anyways, my problem is that the HeaderFooter class doesn't display > footer information like I think it should. > > Basically, I'm trying to create a footer that has an email address and > a phone number on the left side, and the page number on the right > side. My initial attempt was as follows: > public static HeaderFooter CreateFooter() throws Exception > { > Smaller = new Font(); > Smaller.setSize(8); > > Phrase fBefore = new Phrase(new Phrase("m...@address.com" + > " > " + > " > " + > " > Page #")); > fBefore.setFont(Smaller); > > Phrase fAfter = new Phrase("\r\nxX-XXXX (X-XXXX)\r\n"); > fAfter.setFont(Smaller); > > return new HeaderFooter(fBefore, fAfter); > } > > This results in HF_Bad.png (attached). It applies the smaller font to > the page number, but neither the fBefore or fAfter objects. > > My solution was to extend the HeaderFooter class, and overwrite the > paragraph method as follows: > > public Paragraph paragraph() > { > Paragraph p = new Paragraph(); > p.add(new Chunk(getBefore().getContent(), getBefore().getFont())); > > p.add(new Chunk( (m_iPage++/2 + 1) + "", getBefore().getFont())); > p.add(new Chunk(getAfter().getContent(), getAfter().getFont())); > > return p; > } > > The m_iPage is a pagenumber workaround I used (since the Page number > variable isn't visible). Don't worry, it works! Anyways, when I use > this implementation of HeaderFooter (I called it MyHeaderFooter), I > get HF_Good.png (attached). > > Am I making a mistake? It seems that there's something wrong in the > library where the assigned fonts don't get applied. > > Thank you for taking the time to read my email. > -Mark Davidson > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full > prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HeaderFooter-question-tp24432362p24432698.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
