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