Add Footer to PDF

Use PdfFileStamp when you need repeated footer content on every page of a document.

Steps

  1. Create a PdfFileStamp instance and bind the source PDF.
  2. Build the footer content as either FormattedText or an image stream.
  3. Call the appropriate addFooter overload.
  4. Save the updated file and close the facade object.

Java examples

public static void addTextFooter(Path inputFile, Path outputFile) {
    PdfFileStamp pdfStamper = new PdfFileStamp();
    try {
        pdfStamper.bindPdf(inputFile.toString());
        FormattedText text = new FormattedText("Sample Footer");
        pdfStamper.addFooter(text, 20);
        pdfStamper.save(outputFile.toString());
    } finally {
        pdfStamper.close();
    }
}

public static void addImageFooter(Path inputFile, Path imageFile, Path outputFile) throws Exception {
    PdfFileStamp pdfStamper = new PdfFileStamp();
    try (InputStream imageStream = Files.newInputStream(imageFile)) {
        pdfStamper.bindPdf(inputFile.toString());
        pdfStamper.addFooter(imageStream, 20);
        pdfStamper.save(outputFile.toString());
    } finally {
        pdfStamper.close();
    }
}

public static void addFooterWithMargins(Path inputFile, Path outputFile) {
    PdfFileStamp pdfStamper = new PdfFileStamp();
    try {
        pdfStamper.bindPdf(inputFile.toString());
        FormattedText text = new FormattedText("This footer has margins on all sides.");
        pdfStamper.addFooter(text, 20, 20, 20);
        pdfStamper.save(outputFile.toString());
    } finally {
        pdfStamper.close();
    }
}
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