Have to remove lines in header and footer in pdf using iText java

Question

    I've used the following code to display header and footer in my pdf using itext.

   HeaderFooter header=new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("HBOM Reports"),false);
                document.setHeader(header);
                HeaderFooter footer=new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("globematics\nSecond line"),false);
                document.setFooter(footer);

Here is my header displayed output in my pdf

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HBOM Reports

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My footer displayed as like this

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globematics

second line

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Now I don't know why the two lines are printing on my header and footer.

• I want to remove the bottom line from my footer and top line from my header. And I need to align both header and footer text in Center.

  Just now I started using iText so I don't have any idea in that.Please some help me for this. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can use setAlignement to center the text, and setBorder to remove the border and add only the one you want.

HeaderFooter header = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("HBOM Reports"), false);
header.setAlignment(HeaderFooter.ALIGN_CENTER);
header.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER); 
header.setBorder(Rectangle.BOTTOM);
document.setHeader(header);

HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("globematics\nSecond line"), false);
footer.setAlignment(HeaderFooter.ALIGN_CENTER);
footer.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER); 
footer.setBorder(Rectangle.TOP);
document.setFooter(footer);

As I have seen multiple times on the web, the use of this class is discouraged, you may take a look at page events