How to generate pdf using c# with header and footer

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Hi everyone, How to generate pdf using c# with header and footer... I need example code..

Shourya Verdhan · Answer

HI Raja, Try This var header = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(Server.MapPath("~/images/letter-head-top.jpg")); header.SetAbsolutePosition(0, 730); // X and Y Accroding to need var footer = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(Server.MapPath("~/images/letter-head-bottom.jpg")); footer.SetAbsolutePosition(0, 0); // X and Y Accroding to need string filepath = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/PDF-Files/") + "Quote.pdf"; FileStream file = new FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Create, System.IO.FileAccess.Write); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw); hw.AddStyleAttribute(HtmlTextWriterStyle.Color, "10"); mycanvas.RenderControl(hw); //Table Render to PDF StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString()); iTextSharp.text.Document pdfDoc = new iTextSharp.text.Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 100f, 0f); HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc); MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, file); pdfDoc.Open(); pdfDoc.Add(header); //Adding Header pdfDoc.Add(footer); //Adding Foter htmlparser.Parse(sr); pdfDoc.Close(); file.Close();

Mohamed ElSharnouby · Answer

Hi Raja, this code will help you add a header with an image and add a footer with custom text and a page number on each page using PDFFlow library and C#: var pathImage = Path.Combine( Environment.CurrentDirectory, "Images" , "PDF.png" ); var styleMain = StyleBuilder.New().SetFontSize(11); reate a document: DocumentBuilder.New() .AddSection().ApplyStyle(styleMain) .SetSize(PaperSize.A5) .SetOrientation(PageOrientation.Portrait) .AddHeaderToBothPages(30) .AddParagraph() .SetFont(Fonts.Courier(11)) .SetAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center) .AddInlineImage(pathImage, 24, 24) .SetMarginRight(5).SetMarginTop(5).ToParagraph() .AddText( "GS PDF Library" ) .ToSection() .AddParagraphToSection( "This document is an example of a PDF document:" + "A5 paper size, portrait orientation, a header with an image, " + "a footer with a line and a page number, an empty page at the end." ) .InsertPageBreak() .AddFooterToBothPages(20) .AddLineToRepeatingArea() .AddParagraph( "A footer with custom text, " ) .AddPageNumberToParagraph( "page #" ) .SetAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center) uild a file: .ToDocument().Build( "Result.pdf" ); The result will be like this: you can also find more real examples on their website hope this will help you.

susmitha Kodavati · Answer

Hi Shourya Verdhan I have generated the pdf using itext sharp by using the htmlparser now, I want to add header and footer to my pdf. I tried the example given by you but, I am able to the header only in one page but not for all the pages. Could please help me on this. how can I know how many pages are coming while the dynamic pdf generation

Rahul Prasad · Answer

Here is simple solution on this issue, try sample code here Add header in PDF in C#, VB.NET Add PDF footer in C#, VB.NET Regards

Vignesh Kumar · Answer

Hi, This works. You have to specify for each event like what is hapenning when opening a document, what happens on end page and what happens when page is closed. Probably you may have to create new page event class. Hope you got it.

Raja A · Answer

Vignesh, Thanks for your reply.. Your code is very length.. I have my code.. here i can convert to pdf.. But i need to add header and footer on my code... My code is ... BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("windir") + @"\fonts\Arial.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, true); divexcel.Visible = true; Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"; Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename={0}_Final_Entry.pdf"); Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw); divexcel.RenderControl(hw); StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString()); Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 80f, 80f, -2f, 35f); HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc); PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream); pdfDoc.Open(); htmlparser.Parse(sr); pdfDoc.Close(); Response.Write(pdfDoc); Response.End(); Here i need to add header and footer

Vignesh Kumar · Answer

Hi, Use page events and below is the sample code private void CreatePDF() { string fileName = string.Empty; DateTime fileCreationDatetime = DateTime.Now; fileName = string.Format("{0}.pdf", fileCreationDatetime.ToString(@"yyyyMMdd") + "_" + fileCreationDatetime.ToString(@"HHmmss")); string pdfPath = Server.MapPath(@"~\PDFs\") + fileName; using (FileStream msReport = new FileStream(pdfPath, FileMode.Create)) { //step 1 using (Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 140f, 10f)) { try { // step 2 PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, msReport); pdfWriter.PageEvent = new Common.ITextEvents(); //open the stream pdfDoc.Open(); for (int i = 0; i { Paragraph para = new Paragraph("Hello world. Checking Header Footer", new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 22)); para.Alignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; pdfDoc.Add(para); pdfDoc.NewPage(); } pdfDoc.Close(); } catch (Exception ex) { //handle exception } finally { } } } } And create one class file named ITextEvents.cs and add following code: public class ITextEvents : PdfPageEventHelper { // This is the contentbyte object of the writer PdfContentByte cb; // we will put the final number of pages in a template PdfTemplate headerTemplate, footerTemplate; // this is the BaseFont we are going to use for the header / footer BaseFont bf = null; // This keeps track of the creation time DateTime PrintTime = DateTime.Now; #region Fields private string _header; #endregion #region Properties public string Header { get { return _header; } set { _header = value; } } #endregion public override void OnOpenDocument(PdfWriter writer, Document document) { try { PrintTime = DateTime.Now; bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); cb = writer.DirectContent; headerTemplate = cb.CreateTemplate(100, 100); footerTemplate = cb.CreateTemplate(50, 50); } catch (DocumentException de) { } catch (System.IO.IOException ioe) { } } public override void OnEndPage(iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter writer, iTextSharp.text.Document document) { base.OnEndPage(writer, document); iTextSharp.text.Font baseFontNormal = new iTextSharp.text.Font(iTextSharp.text.Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 12f, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL, iTextSharp.text.BaseColor.BLACK); iTextSharp.text.Font baseFontBig = new iTextSharp.text.Font(iTextSharp.text.Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 12f, iTextSharp.text.Font.BOLD, iTextSharp.text.BaseColor.BLACK); Phrase p1Header = new Phrase("Sample Header Here", baseFontNormal); //Create PdfTable object PdfPTable pdfTab = new PdfPTable(3); //We will have to create separate cells to include image logo and 2 separate strings //Row 1 PdfPCell pdfCell1 = new PdfPCell(); PdfPCell pdfCell2 = new PdfPCell(p1Header); PdfPCell pdfCell3 = new PdfPCell(); String text = "Page " + writer.PageNumber + " of "; //Add paging to header { cb.BeginText(); cb.SetFontAndSize(bf, 12); cb.SetTextMatrix(document.PageSize.GetRight(200), document.PageSize.GetTop(45)); cb.ShowText(text); cb.EndText(); float len = bf.GetWidthPoint(text, 12); //Adds "12" in Page 1 of 12 cb.AddTemplate(headerTemplate, document.PageSize.GetRight(200) + len, document.PageSize.GetTop(45)); } //Add paging to footer { cb.BeginText(); cb.SetFontAndSize(bf, 12); cb.SetTextMatrix(document.PageSize.GetRight(180), document.PageSize.GetBottom(30)); cb.ShowText(text); cb.EndText(); float len = bf.GetWidthPoint(text, 12); cb.AddTemplate(footerTemplate, document.PageSize.GetRight(180) + len, document.PageSize.GetBottom(30)); } //Row 2 PdfPCell pdfCell4 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Sub Header Description", baseFontNormal)); //Row 3 PdfPCell pdfCell5 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Date:" + PrintTime.ToShortDateString(), baseFontBig)); PdfPCell pdfCell6 = new PdfPCell(); PdfPCell pdfCell7 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("TIME:" + string.Format("{0:t}", DateTime.Now), baseFontBig)); //set the alignment of all three cells and set border to 0 pdfCell1.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; pdfCell2.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; pdfCell3.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; pdfCell4.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; pdfCell5.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; pdfCell6.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; pdfCell7.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; pdfCell2.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_BOTTOM; pdfCell3.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE; pdfCell4.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_TOP; pdfCell5.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE; pdfCell6.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE; pdfCell7.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE; pdfCell4.Colspan = 3; pdfCell1.Border = 0; pdfCell2.Border = 0; pdfCell3.Border = 0; pdfCell4.Border = 0; pdfCell5.Border = 0; pdfCell6.Border = 0; pdfCell7.Border = 0; //add all three cells into PdfTable pdfTab.AddCell(pdfCell1); pdfTab.AddCell(pdfCell2); pdfTab.AddCell(pdfCell3); pdfTab.AddCell(pdfCell4); pdfTab.AddCell(pdfCell5); pdfTab.AddCell(pdfCell6); pdfTab.AddCell(pdfCell7); pdfTab.TotalWidth = document.PageSize.Width - 80f; pdfTab.WidthPercentage = 70; //pdfTab.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER; //call WriteSelectedRows of PdfTable. This writes rows from PdfWriter in PdfTable //first param is start row. -1 indicates there is no end row and all the rows to be included to write //Third and fourth param is x and y position to start writing pdfTab.WriteSelectedRows(0, -1, 40, document.PageSize.Height - 30, writer.DirectContent); //set pdfContent value //Move the pointer and draw line to separate header section from rest of page cb.MoveTo(40, document.PageSize.Height - 100); cb.LineTo(document.PageSize.Width - 40, document.PageSize.Height - 100); cb.Stroke(); //Move the pointer and draw line to separate footer section from rest of page cb.MoveTo(40, document.PageSize.GetBottom(50) ); cb.LineTo(document.PageSize.Width - 40, document.PageSize.GetBottom(50)); cb.Stroke(); } public override void OnCloseDocument(PdfWriter writer, Document document) { base.OnCloseDocument(writer, document); headerTemplate.BeginText(); headerTemplate.SetFontAndSize(bf, 12); headerTemplate.SetTextMatrix(0, 0); headerTemplate.ShowText((writer.PageNumber - 1).ToString()); headerTemplate.EndText(); footerTemplate.BeginText(); footerTemplate.SetFontAndSize(bf, 12); footerTemplate.SetTextMatrix(0, 0); footerTemplate.ShowText((writer.PageNumber - 1).ToString()); footerTemplate.EndText(); } } Hope this helps//

How to generate pdf using c# with header and footer

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