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dev_jhdev_jh 

Unable to get PDF header & footer to show

Hi all,

 

I have been researching the forum to understand how to get headers and footers in the PDFs generated from Visualforce. According to these posts it is possible:

 

http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=Visualforce&message.id=6411

 

http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=Visualforce&message.id=3403

 

However, I have been following the instructions but I get no header or footer. I will explain:

 

1 - I created the static resource as suggested. The file contains the following:

 

 

@page
{
	@bottom-left {
 		content: "Page " counter(page) " Customer Report";
	}
	@top-center {
		content: "PDF Header"; 
	}
}
 
 2 - I included this static resource on my Visualforce page. The first lines of code are:
 
 
<apex:page standardController="Opportunity" showHeader="true" renderas="pdf">
<apex:includeScript value="{!$Resource.PDFHeaderFooter}"/>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id="table1">
<tr>
    <td valign="top">

 
 However, I am not getting anything on the header or footer of the PDF. Can you help? Thanks,
 
J 
 
 
 


Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
SuriSuri
Hi.
 
Save the Static Resource File as a .css File.
 
Then use:
 
<apex:stylesheet value="{!$Resource.PDFHeaderFooter}" /> 
 
on the VF Page.
 
This should work. 


All Answers
Kirtesh_JainKirtesh_Jain
Hi ,
 
I am able to generate Pdf file Header and Footer with same logic by using same flow of your way.
I think you should save resouce file as .css file and load that , I was with this issue when I were not able to get header and footer.
 
 
Thanks,
kirtesh


dev_jhdev_jh
That´s exactly how I did it. I saved as .CSS and uploaded that but it isn´t working...


SuriSuri
Hi.
 
Save the Static Resource File as a .css File.
 
Then use:
 
<apex:stylesheet value="{!$Resource.PDFHeaderFooter}" /> 
 
on the VF Page.
 
This should work. 
This was selected as the best answer
dev_jhdev_jh
Thanks Suri, that was the issue, I needed the "<apex:stylesheet>" tag!. 
 
I have a further question. I want to format the text on the footer to a specific font but are unsure as to how to do this. I also found that special characters liks ñ (&ntilde;) can´t be represented neither as "ñ" or "&ntilde;"
 
Thanks! 


SuriSuri
Yup.
 
Well, if you want to format the font in PDF's footer, use in your CSS Stylesheet:
 
 
@bottom-left {
   

  font-family: Arial Unicode MS;
  
  content: "Page  " counter(page) "Customer Report";
 
  
 } 


Kirtesh_JainKirtesh_Jain
Hi,
 


I am able to generate Pdf file from VF page. I have one Problem that I used <div style="page-break-after:always"/> inside the repeat tag . When repeat process ends then also generate one New blank page at last .
What may be reason of it of blank pdf page.
 
 
Thanks,
Kirtesh 


JeeTJeeT
here is my code
<apex:repeat value="{!clause}" var="desc" id="theRepeat" >
<br/><apex:outputLabel style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<b><apex:outputText value="{!desc.Name}"/></b>
</apex:outputLabel><br/>
<apex:outputLabel style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<apex:outputText value="{!desc.Insurance__c}"/>
</apex:outputLabel>
</apex:repeat>
on the insurance field contents are having bullets. I wants to put a page break after when a bullet will come.
like this:-
• Description1
• Description1
• Description1
but this is coming as a paragraph without a page break on the PDF.
How can I resolve this Issue??