Pdf document footer : Page Event « PDF « Java Tutorial

1. Java Tutorial
2. PDF
3. Page Event

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.Element;
import com.lowagie.text.Phrase;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfAction;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPageEventHelper;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class MainClass extends PdfPageEventHelper {
  protected Phrase header = new Phrase("header");

  protected PdfPTable footer = new PdfPTable(4);

  public MainClass() {
    footer.setTotalWidth(300);
    footer.getDefaultCell().setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
    footer.addCell(new Phrase(new Chunk("First").setAction(new PdfAction(PdfAction.FIRSTPAGE))));
    footer.addCell(new Phrase(new Chunk("Prev").setAction(new PdfAction(PdfAction.PREVPAGE))));
    footer.addCell(new Phrase(new Chunk("Next").setAction(new PdfAction(PdfAction.NEXTPAGE))));
    footer.addCell(new Phrase(new Chunk("Last").setAction(new PdfAction(PdfAction.LASTPAGE))));
  }

  public void onEndPage(PdfWriter writer, Document document) {
    PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
    if (document.getPageNumber() > 1) {
      ColumnText.showTextAligned(cb, Element.ALIGN_CENTER, header, (document.right() - document
          .left())
          / 2 + document.leftMargin(), document.top() + 10, 0);
    }
    footer.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, (document.right() - document.left() - 300) / 2
        + document.leftMargin(), document.bottom() - 10, cb);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Document document = new Document();
    PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("2.pdf"));
    writer.setViewerPreferences(PdfWriter.PageLayoutTwoColumnLeft);
    writer.setPageEvent(new MainClass());
    document.open();
    for (int k = 1; k <= 300; ++k) {
      document.add(new Phrase("test "));
    }
    document.close();
  }
}