Headers and Footers are not appearing in saved PDF

[Jordan McNeil]

Hello Everyone,


I'm having a problem getting the headers and footers to show up in a PDF that's generated and saved to disk. When the PDF is generated in the viewer, the headers/footers show up fine. The PDF (TempPDF.pdf) saves to the disk successfully. But, when TempPDF.pdf is opened back up, the content is there, and the headers/footers are gone. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The code that's giving me problems is below. I'm using iText version 2 and JAVA 6.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jordan

//page settings
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50, 50);
Font font = new font (Font.HELVETICA, 10, Font.BOLD);
font.setColor (new Color (255, 0 , 0));

response.setContentType (" application/pdf" ) ;

try {
      //put in headers and footers
      HeaderFooter header = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("This is a the header", font, false);
            header.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
            document.setHeader(header);


      HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("This is the footer", font, true);
            footer.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
            footer.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
            document.setFooter(footer);

      //create PDF file
      PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("TempPDF.pdf"));

       document.open();

      //add content
      document.add ( new Paragraph ("Sample content"));

      //close document
      document.close();

[john price]

Please UseCodeTags. I'm not familiar with iText, so I cannot help you. By using code tags, you give yourself a way to show the community your code. It formats it for you, it's easier to read, you'll get more responses, you'll get faster responses, and it's generally accepted here.

Thanks,
John Price