Generating header/footer with flying saucer (xHTMLRenderer) and iText

Question

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 th

Answer 1

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="\n" +
          "
Header
Footer
Page1
Page2
";
        renderer.setDocumentFromString(content);
        renderer.layout();
        renderer.createPDF(new FileOutputStream("test.pdf"));

    }

}

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This is using the following XHTML document

    
Header
    
Footer
    
Page1
    
Page2