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Hi,
I need to have a header on each page corresponding to which section the page is in. The header needs to be 2 lines, right justified and italicized with a line at the bottom of the header from left margin to right margin.
I can convert html to pdf and then find all the sections and then use pdfcreator to render the correct heading based on which section the page is in. But I can only put text in the header, not html, so how do I get the necessary formatting?
Or - I know I can use html for the heading in the after render page event but how do I know where I am in the document? I know which page I am on, but can I find out if there is a new section starting on this page? I have id = "column_leftacross" for all div elements of new headings in the html.
Thanks,
Becky
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Hi,
For those scenarios, you would usually have to do run the main conversion first, then rely on the returned HtmlToPdfResult object to add your headers/footers in a loop. Take a look of HtmlToPdfResult.HtmlDocument property. From that property you can get the location of each HtmlElement (page number, location in that page). You can then generate your header/footer based on that information.
Thanks!
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That is what I am doing, running the main conversion, then figuring out which sections start on which pages and using pdfcreator to render the correct heading on the correct page. The problem I have is that the header is not formatting correctly without being able to use html. So I guess I would have to use the information from the first conversion and then create a second document?
It sure would be nice if acm could read html so it could add better formatted headers and/or footers to a document that has already been converted.
Thanks,
Becky
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Hi,
No. You don't need a second document. You can just use ConvertHtml on the same document to create header/footer. Just make sure you pass a PdfPage object instead of a PdfDocument object to your ConvertHtml. You will also need to set HtmlToPdf.Options.OutputArea differently when you output the header/footer. This is in fact very similar to how you use the pdfcreator interface. You basically feed the same paper back to the printer again.
Thanks
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Thanks, I have it working now with the html formatted headers and footers.
I appreciate your quick and helpful responses!
Becky
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