iText PDF export

[Vijay Ramasamy]

Hi, I am trying to export PDF using iText. I am having difficulties in setting up the line width for the header and footer. I am creating objects of PDFTemplate, it draws up the line, but when i make the zoom to 100% I see that the Header line is thicker than the Footer line.
Not sure how iText manages the line thickness. Even i tried setting up the setLineWidth() method, but no use. Any help is much appreciated.

Vijay.

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Vijay and welcome to Javaranch!

Can you tell us what version you are using and show a snippet of your code?

[Vijay Ramasamy]

Hi Martijn,

Thanks!

I am using iText 2.1.0 and following is my code snippet:

		final PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, os);
		writer.setFullCompression();
		writer.setPdfVersion(PdfWriter.VERSION_1_6);
		writer.setTagged();
		ReportPageEventHandler handler = new ReportPageEventHandler();
		writer.setPageEvent(handler);
		document.addCreationDate();
		document.setMargins(Constants.MARGIN_PAGE_LEFT,
				Constants.MARGIN_PAGE_RIGHT, Constants.MARGIN_PAGE_TOP,
				Constants.MARGIN_PAGE_BOTTOM);
		document.open();
		//[end] Initialize iText PDF data structures
		
		PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
		cb.setFontAndSize(Constants.Fonts.base.getCalculatedBaseFont(false), Constants.Fonts.FOOTER_FONT_SIZE);
		
		// Template sits in the bottom margin between the left and right margin
		PdfTemplate pageCountTemplate = writer.getDirectContent().createTemplate(document.right()
			 - document.leftMargin(), document.bottomMargin());
		// Draw line at top of footer
		pageCountTemplate.moveTo(0, pageCountTemplate.getHeight());
		pageCountTemplate.lineTo(pageCountTemplate.getWidth(), pageCountTemplate.getHeight());
		pageCountTemplate.stroke();

		// Template for displaying header information (repeated on all pages)
		PdfTemplate headerTemplate = writer.getDirectContent().createTemplate(
				document.right(), Constants.MARGIN_PAGE_TOP);
		headerTemplate.moveTo(0, Constants.HEADER_TEXT_SECTION_HEIGHT + Constants.HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
		headerTemplate.lineTo(document.right() - document.rightMargin(),
				Constants.HEADER_TEXT_SECTION_HEIGHT + Constants.HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
		headerTemplate.stroke();
		//[end] Place header image on header template
		handler.setPageCountTemplate(pageCountTemplate);
		handler.setHeaderTemplate(headerTemplate);

Following code has NO effect on both the handlers (Header & Footer):
xxxxxx.setLineWidth(1);

[Vijay Ramasamy]

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.