Add Header and Footer for PDF using iTextsharp

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How can I add header and footer for each page in the pdf   Headed will contain just a text Footer will contain a text and pagination for pdf  Page   1 of 4   How is this possible   I tried to add the below line  but header does not show up in pdf   document AddHeader  Header    Header Text      This the code I am using for generation PDF       protected void GeneratePDF Click object sender  EventArgs e                DataTable dt   getData                  Response ContentType    application pdf               Response AddHeader  content-disposition    attachment filename Locations pdf                Response Cache SetCacheability HttpCacheability NoCache                Document document   new Document                 PdfWriter GetInstance document  Response OutputStream                document Open                 iTextSharp text Font font5   iTextSharp text FontFactory GetFont FontFactory COURIER   8                PdfPTable table   new PdfPTable dt Columns Count               PdfPRow row   null              float   widths   new float     6f  6f  2f  4f  2f                 table SetWidths widths                table WidthPercentage   100              int iCol   0              string colname                   PdfPCell cell   new PdfPCell new Phrase  Locations                  cell Colspan   dt Columns Count               foreach  DataColumn c in dt Columns                                 table AddCell new Phrase c ColumnName  font5                               foreach  DataRow r in dt Rows                                if  dt Rows Count  gt  0                                        table AddCell new Phrase r 0  ToString    font5                        table AddCell new Phrase r 1  ToString    font5                        table AddCell new Phrase r 2  ToString    font5                        table AddCell new Phrase r 3  ToString    font5                        table AddCell new Phrase r 4  ToString    font5                                                document Add table               document Close                 Response Write document               Response End

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This link will help you out completely the Shortest and Most Elegant way    Header Footer with PageEvent          PdfPTable tbheader   new PdfPTable 3           tbheader TotalWidth   document PageSize Width - document LeftMargin - document RightMargin          tbheader DefaultCell Border   0          tbheader AddCell new Paragraph             tbheader AddCell new Paragraph             var  cell2   new PdfPCell new Paragraph  This is my header   arial italic             cell2 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN RIGHT           cell2 Border   0          tbheader AddCell  cell2           float   widths   new float     20f  20f  60f            tbheader SetWidths widths           tbheader WriteSelectedRows 0  -1  document LeftMargin  writer PageSize GetTop document TopMargin   writer DirectContent            PdfPTable tbfooter   new PdfPTable 3           tbfooter TotalWidth   document PageSize Width - document LeftMargin - document RightMargin          tbfooter DefaultCell Border   0          tbfooter AddCell new Paragraph             tbfooter AddCell new Paragraph             var  cell2   new PdfPCell new Paragraph  This is my footer   arial italic             cell2 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN RIGHT           cell2 Border   0          tbfooter AddCell  cell2           tbfooter AddCell new Paragraph             tbfooter AddCell new Paragraph             var  celly   new PdfPCell new Paragraph writer PageNumber ToString       For page no           celly HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN RIGHT           celly Border   0          tbfooter AddCell  celly           float   widths1   new float     20f  20f  60f            tbfooter SetWidths widths1           tbfooter WriteSelectedRows 0  -1  document LeftMargin  writer PageSize GetBottom document BottomMargin   writer DirectContent

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Just add this line before opening the document  must be before            document Header   new HeaderFooter new Phrase  Header Text    false           document Open

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using System  using System Collections Generic  using System Linq  using System Web  using iTextSharp  using iTextSharp text  using iTextSharp text pdf  using DataLayer   namespace DataMngt MyCode       public class HeaderFooter   PdfPageEventHelper                region Startup Stuff          private string    headerLines          private string  footerLine           private DefineFont  boldFont          private DefineFont  normalFont           private iTextSharp text Font fontTxtBold          private iTextSharp text Font fontTxtRegular           private int  fontPointSize   0           private bool hasFooter   false          private bool hasHeader   false           private int  headerWidth   0          private int  headerHeight   0           private int  footerWidth   0          private int  footerHeight   0           private int  leftMargin   0          private int  rightMargin   0          private int  topMargin   0          private int  bottomMargin   0           private PageNumbers NumberSettings           private DateTime runTime   DateTime Now                        public enum PageNumbers                       None              HeaderPlacement              FooterPlacement                       This is the contentbyte object of the writer         PdfContentByte cb           PdfTemplate headerTemplate          PdfTemplate footerTemplate           public string   headerLines                       get                               return  headerLines                            set                                headerLines   value                  hasHeader   true                                   public string footerLine                       get                               return  footerLine                            set                                footerLine   value                  hasFooter   true                                   public DefineFont boldFont                       get                               return  boldFont                            set                                boldFont   value                                   public DefineFont normalFont                       get                               return  normalFont                            set                                normalFont   value                                   public int fontPointSize                       get                               return  fontPointSize                            set                                fontPointSize   value                                   public int leftMargin                       get                               return  leftMargin                            set                                leftMargin   value                                   public int rightMargin                       get                               return  rightMargin                            set                                rightMargin   value                                   public int topMargin                       get                               return  topMargin                            set                                topMargin   value                                   public int bottomMargin                       get                               return  bottomMargin                            set                                bottomMargin   value                                   public int headerheight                       get                               return  headerHeight                                   public int footerHeight                       get                               return  footerHeight                                   public PageNumbers PageNumberSettings                       get                               return NumberSettings                             set                               NumberSettings   value                                    endregion           region Write Headers Footers          public override void OnEndPage PdfWriter writer  Document document                        if  hasHeader                                   left side is the string array passed in                    right side is a built in string array  0   date  1   time  2 optional    page                  float   widths   new float 2    90f  10f                     PdfPTable hdrTable   new PdfPTable 2                   hdrTable TotalWidth   document PageSize Width -   leftMargin    rightMargin                   hdrTable WidthPercentage   95                  hdrTable SetWidths widths                   hdrTable LockedWidth   true                   for  int hdrIdx   0  hdrIdx  lt    headerLines Length  lt  2   2    headerLines Length   hdrIdx                                           string leftLine    hdrIdx  lt   headerLines Length    headerLines hdrIdx    string Empty                        Paragraph leftPara   new Paragraph 5  leftLine   hdrIdx    0   fontTxtBold   fontTxtRegular                         switch  hdrIdx                                                case 0                                                                leftPara Font Size    fontPointSize                                   PdfPCell leftCell   new PdfPCell leftPara                                   leftCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN LEFT                                  leftCell Border   0                                   string rightLine   string Format SalesPlanResources datePara  runTime ToString SalesPlanResources datePrintMask                                    Paragraph rightPara   new Paragraph 5  rightLine   hdrIdx    0   fontTxtBold   fontTxtRegular                                    rightPara Font Size    fontPointSize                                   PdfPCell rightCell   new PdfPCell rightPara                                   rightCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN LEFT                                  rightCell Border   0                                   hdrTable AddCell leftCell                                   hdrTable AddCell rightCell                                    break                                                         case 1                                                                leftPara Font Size    fontPointSize                                   PdfPCell leftCell   new PdfPCell leftPara                                   leftCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN LEFT                                  leftCell Border   0                                   string rightLine   string Format SalesPlanResources timePara  runTime ToString SalesPlanResources timePrintMask                                    Paragraph rightPara   new Paragraph 5  rightLine   hdrIdx    0   fontTxtBold   fontTxtRegular                                    rightPara Font Size    fontPointSize                                   PdfPCell rightCell   new PdfPCell rightPara                                   rightCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN LEFT                                  rightCell Border   0                                   hdrTable AddCell leftCell                                   hdrTable AddCell rightCell                                    break                                                         case 2                                                                leftPara Font Size    fontPointSize                                   PdfPCell leftCell   new PdfPCell leftPara                                   leftCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN LEFT                                  leftCell Border   0                                   string rightLine                                  if  NumberSettings    PageNumbers HeaderPlacement                                                                        rightLine   string Concat SalesPlanResources pagePara  writer PageNumber ToString                                                                       else                                                                       rightLine   string Empty                                                                     Paragraph rightPara   new Paragraph 5  rightLine  fontTxtRegular                                   rightPara Font Size    fontPointSize                                   PdfPCell rightCell   new PdfPCell rightPara                                   rightCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN LEFT                                  rightCell Border   0                                   hdrTable AddCell leftCell                                   hdrTable AddCell rightCell                                    break                                                         default                                                                leftPara Font Size    fontPointSize                                   PdfPCell leftCell   new PdfPCell leftPara                                   leftCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN LEFT                                  leftCell Border   0                                  leftCell Colspan   2                                                                  hdrTable AddCell leftCell                                    break                                                                                         hdrTable WriteSelectedRows 0  -1   leftMargin  document PageSize Height -  topMargin  writer DirectContent                      Move the pointer and draw line to separate header section from rest of page                 cb MoveTo  leftMargin  document Top   10                   cb LineTo document PageSize Width -  leftMargin  document Top   10                   cb Stroke                               if  hasFooter                                   footer line is the width of the page so it is centered horizontally                  PdfPTable ftrTable   new PdfPTable 1                   float   widths   new float 1   100                     ftrTable TotalWidth   document PageSize Width - 10                  ftrTable WidthPercentage   95                  ftrTable SetWidths widths                    string OneLine                   if  NumberSettings    PageNumbers FooterPlacement                                        OneLine   string Concat  footerLine  writer PageNumber ToString                                       else                                       OneLine    footerLine                                     Paragraph onePara   new Paragraph 0  OneLine  fontTxtRegular                   onePara Font Size    fontPointSize                   PdfPCell oneCell   new PdfPCell onePara                   oneCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER                   oneCell Border   0                  ftrTable AddCell oneCell                    ftrTable WriteSelectedRows 0  -1   leftMargin    footerHeight   writer DirectContent                      Move the pointer and draw line to separate footer section from rest of page                 cb MoveTo  leftMargin  document PageSize GetBottom  footerHeight   2                    cb LineTo document PageSize Width -  leftMargin  document PageSize GetBottom  footerHeight   2                    cb Stroke                                      endregion            region Setup Headers Footers Happens here          public override void OnOpenDocument PdfWriter writer  Document document                           create the fonts that are to be used                first the hightlight or Bold font             fontTxtBold   FontFactory GetFont  boldFont fontFamily   boldFont fontSize   boldFont foreColor               if   boldFont isBold                                fontTxtBold SetStyle Font BOLD                             if   boldFont isItalic                                fontTxtBold SetStyle Font ITALIC                             if   boldFont isUnderlined                                fontTxtBold SetStyle Font UNDERLINE                                 next the normal font             fontTxtRegular   FontFactory GetFont  normalFont fontFamily   normalFont fontSize   normalFont foreColor               if   normalFont isBold                                fontTxtRegular SetStyle Font BOLD                             if   normalFont isItalic                                fontTxtRegular SetStyle Font ITALIC                             if   normalFont isUnderlined                                fontTxtRegular SetStyle Font UNDERLINE                                 now build the header and footer templates             try                               float pageHeight   document PageSize Height                  float pageWidth   document PageSize Width                    headerWidth    int pageWidth -   int  rightMargin    int  leftMargin                    footerWidth    headerWidth                   if  hasHeader                                           i basically dummy build the headers so i can trial fit them and see how much space they take                      float   widths   new float 1    90f                         PdfPTable hdrTable   new PdfPTable 1                       hdrTable TotalWidth   document PageSize Width -   leftMargin    rightMargin                       hdrTable WidthPercentage   95                      hdrTable SetWidths widths                       hdrTable LockedWidth   true                        headerHeight   0                       for  int hdrIdx   0  hdrIdx  lt    headerLines Length  lt  2   2    headerLines Length   hdrIdx                                                  Paragraph hdrPara   new Paragraph 5  hdrIdx  gt   headerLines Length - 1   string Empty    headerLines hdrIdx    hdrIdx  gt  0   fontTxtRegular   fontTxtBold                            PdfPCell hdrCell   new PdfPCell hdrPara                           hdrCell HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN LEFT                          hdrCell Border   0                          hdrTable AddCell hdrCell                            headerHeight    headerHeight    int hdrTable GetRowHeight hdrIdx                                                 iTextSharp underestimates the size of each line so fudge it a little                         this gives me 3 extra lines to play with on the spacing                      headerHeight    headerHeight     fontPointSize   3                                       if  hasFooter                                         footerHeight     fontPointSize   2                                      document SetMargins  leftMargin   rightMargin    topMargin    headerHeight    footerHeight                    cb   writer DirectContent                   if  hasHeader                                        headerTemplate   cb CreateTemplate  headerWidth   headerHeight                                      if  hasFooter                                        footerTemplate   cb CreateTemplate  footerWidth   footerHeight                                               catch  DocumentException de                                           catch  System IO IOException ioe                                                   endregion           region Cleanup Doc Processing          public override void OnCloseDocument PdfWriter writer  Document document                        base OnCloseDocument writer  document                if  hasHeader                                headerTemplate BeginText                    headerTemplate SetTextMatrix 0  0                    if  NumberSettings    PageNumbers HeaderPlacement                                                       headerTemplate EndText                               if  hasFooter                                footerTemplate BeginText                    footerTemplate SetTextMatrix 0  0                    if  NumberSettings    PageNumbers FooterPlacement                                                       footerTemplate EndText                                      endregion           using System  using System Collections Generic  using System Linq  using System Web  using iTextSharp  using iTextSharp text  using iTextSharp text pdf   namespace DataMngt MyCode           used to define the fonts passed into the header and footer class     public struct DefineFont               public string fontFamily   get  set            public int fontSize   get  set            public bool isBold   get  set            public bool isItalic   get  set            public bool isUnderlined   get  set            public BaseColor foreColor   get  set              To Use    Document pdfDoc   new Document PageSize LEGAL Rotate    10  10  25  25    System IO MemoryStream mStream   new System IO MemoryStream     PdfWriter writer   PdfWriter GetInstance pdfDoc  mStream    MyCode HeaderFooter headers   new MyCode HeaderFooter     writer PageEvent   headers           Build the string array for the headers      DefineFont passFont   new DefineFont            always set this to the largest font used     headers fontPointSize   8          set up the highlight or bold font     passFont fontFamily    Helvetica       passFont fontSize   8      passFont isBold   true      passFont isItalic   false      passFont isUnderlined   false      passFont foreColor   BaseColor BLACK       headers boldFont   passFont          now setup the normal text font     passFont fontSize   7      passFont isBold   false       headers normalFont   passFont       headers leftMargin   10      headers bottomMargin   25      headers rightMargin   10      headers topMargin   25       headers PageNumberSettings   HeaderFooter PageNumbers FooterPlacement       headers footerLine    Page       headers headerLines   parmLines ToArray         pdfDoc SetMargins headers leftMargin  headers rightMargin  headers topMargin   headers headerheight  headers bottomMargin   headers footerHeight       pdfDoc Open            the new page is necessary due to a bug in in the current version of itextsharp     pdfDoc NewPage          now your headers and footer will be handled automatically

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Easy codes that work successfully   protected void Page Load object sender  EventArgs e                  using  MemoryStream ms   new MemoryStream                 iTextSharp text Document doc   new iTextSharp text Document iTextSharp text PageSize A4  36  36  54  54     iTextSharp text pdf PdfWriter writer   iTextSharp text pdf PdfWriter GetInstance doc  ms     writer PageEvent   new HeaderFooter      doc Open                 make your document content                                doc Close      writer Close          output   Response ContentType    application pdf      Response AddHeader  Content-Disposition    attachment  filename clientfilename pdf      byte   pdf   ms ToArray      Response OutputStream Write pdf  0  pdf Length                 class HeaderFooter   PdfPageEventHelper   public override void OnEndPage PdfWriter writer  Document document            Make your table header using PdfPTable and name that tblHeader                  tblHeader WriteSelectedRows 0  -1  page Left   document LeftMargin  page Top  writer DirectContent                      Make your table footer using PdfPTable and name that tblFooter                  tblFooter WriteSelectedRows 0  -1  page Left   document LeftMargin  writer PageSize GetBottom document BottomMargin   writer DirectContent

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For iTextSharp 4 1 6  the last version of iTextSharp that was licensed as LGPL  the solution provided by Alvaro Pati  o is both simple and effective   Because documentation is somewhat scarse I d like to extend his answer with this code snippet that can be used to change the appearance of the header and footer  By default they have a rather large font-size and a thick border  which many people will want to change      Parameters passed on to the function that creates the PDF  String headerText    Your header text   String footerText    Page       Define a font and font-size in points  plus f for float  and pick a color    This one is for both header and footer but you can also create seperate ones Font fontHeaderFooter   FontFactory GetFont  arial   8f   fontHeaderFooter Color   Color GRAY      Apply the font to the headerText and create a Phrase with the result Chunk chkHeader   new Chunk headerText  fontHeaderFooter   Phrase p1   new Phrase chkHeader       create a HeaderFooter element for the header using the Phrase    The boolean turns numbering on or off HeaderFooter header   new HeaderFooter p1  false       Remove the border that is set by default header Border   Rectangle NO BORDER     Align the text  0 is left  1 center and 2 right  header Alignment   1      add the header to the document document Header   header      The footer is created in an similar way     If you want to use numbering like in this example  add a whitespace to the    text because by default there s no space in between them if  footerText Substring footerText Length - 1          footerText          Chunk chkFooter   new Chunk footerText  fontHeaderFooter   Phrase p2   new Phrase chkFooter       Turn on numbering by setting the boolean to true HeaderFooter footer   new HeaderFooter p2  true   footer Border   Rectangle NO BORDER  footer Alignment   1   document Footer   footer      Open the Document for writing and continue creating its content document Open      For more info check Creating PDFs with iTextSharp and iTextSharp - Adding Text with Chunks  Phrases and Paragraphs  The source code on GitHub may also be useful

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The answers to this question  while they are correct  are very unnecessarily complicated  It doesn t take that much code for text to show up in the header footer  Here is a simple example of adding text to the header footer   The current version of iTextSharp works by implementing a callback class which is defined by the IPdfPageEvent interface  From what I understand  it s not a good idea to add things during the OnStartPage method  so instead I will be using the OnEndPage page method  The events are triggered depending on what is happening to the PdfWriter  First  create a class which implements IPdfPageEvent  In the   public void OnEndPage PdfWriter writer  Document document    function  obtain the PdfContentByte object by calling   PdfContentByte cb   writer DirectContent    Now you can add text very easily   ColumnText ct   new ColumnText cb    cb BeginText    cb SetFontAndSize BaseFont CreateFont BaseFont TIMES ROMAN  BaseFont CP1252  BaseFont NOT EMBEDDED   12 0f     Note   0 0  in this case is at the bottom of the document cb SetTextMatrix document LeftMargin  document BottomMargin    cb ShowText String Format   0   1     Testing Text    Like this     cb EndText      So the full for the OnEndPage function will be   public void OnEndPage PdfWriter writer  Document document        PdfContentByte cb   writer DirectContent      ColumnText ct   new ColumnText cb        cb BeginText        cb SetFontAndSize BaseFont CreateFont BaseFont TIMES ROMAN  BaseFont CP1252  BaseFont NOT EMBEDDED   12 0f       cb SetTextMatrix document LeftMargin  document BottomMargin       cb ShowText String Format   0   1     Testing Text    Like this         cb EndText         This will show up at the bottom of your document  One last thing  Don t forget to assign the IPdfPageEvent like this   writter PageEvent   new PDFEvents      To the PdfWriter writter object  For the header it is very similar  Just flip the SetTextMatrix y coordinate   cb SetTextMatrix document LeftMargin  document PageSize Height - document TopMargin

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pdfDoc Open    Paragraph para   new Paragraph  Hello World   new Font Font FontFamily HELVETICA  22    para Alignment   Element ALIGN CENTER  pdfDoc Add para   pdfDoc Add new Paragraph   r n     htmlparser Parse sr   pdfDoc Close

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As already answered by  Bruno you need to use pageEvents   Please check out the sample code below    private void CreatePDF         string fileName   string Empty          DateTime fileCreationDatetime   DateTime Now          fileName   string Format   0  pdf   fileCreationDatetime ToString   yyyyMMdd           fileCreationDatetime ToString   HHmmss             string pdfPath   Server MapPath     PDFs        fileName       using  FileStream msReport   new FileStream pdfPath  FileMode Create                   step 1         using  Document pdfDoc   new Document PageSize A4  10f  10f  140f  10f                         try                                  step 2                 PdfWriter pdfWriter   PdfWriter GetInstance pdfDoc  msReport                   pdfWriter PageEvent   new Common ITextEvents                       open the stream                  pdfDoc Open                     for  int i   0  i  lt  10  i                                          Paragraph para   new Paragraph  Hello world  Checking Header Footer   new Font Font FontFamily HELVETICA  22                            para Alignment   Element ALIGN CENTER                          pdfDoc Add para                           pdfDoc NewPage                                       pdfDoc Close                                  catch  Exception ex                                  handle exception                               finally                                                          And create one class file named ITextEvents cs and add following code   public class ITextEvents   PdfPageEventHelper              This is the contentbyte object of the writer     PdfContentByte cb          we will put the final number of pages in a template     PdfTemplate headerTemplate  footerTemplate          this is the BaseFont we are going to use for the header   footer     BaseFont bf   null          This keeps track of the creation time     DateTime PrintTime   DateTime Now            region Fields     private string  header       endregion       region Properties     public string Header               get   return  header            set    header   value               endregion          public override void OnOpenDocument PdfWriter writer  Document document                try                       PrintTime   DateTime Now              bf   BaseFont CreateFont BaseFont HELVETICA  BaseFont CP1252  BaseFont NOT EMBEDDED               cb   writer DirectContent              headerTemplate   cb CreateTemplate 100  100               footerTemplate   cb CreateTemplate 50  50                     catch  DocumentException de                                  catch  System IO IOException ioe                                     public override void OnEndPage iTextSharp text pdf PdfWriter writer  iTextSharp text Document document                base OnEndPage writer  document               iTextSharp text Font baseFontNormal   new iTextSharp text Font iTextSharp text Font FontFamily HELVETICA  12f  iTextSharp text Font NORMAL  iTextSharp text BaseColor BLACK               iTextSharp text Font baseFontBig   new iTextSharp text Font iTextSharp text Font FontFamily HELVETICA  12f  iTextSharp text Font BOLD  iTextSharp text BaseColor BLACK               Phrase p1Header   new Phrase  Sample Header Here   baseFontNormal              Create PdfTable object         PdfPTable pdfTab   new PdfPTable 3              We will have to create separate cells to include image logo and 2 separate strings           Row 1         PdfPCell pdfCell1   new PdfPCell            PdfPCell pdfCell2   new PdfPCell p1Header           PdfPCell pdfCell3   new PdfPCell            String text    Page     writer PageNumber     of                   Add paging to header                       cb BeginText                cb SetFontAndSize bf  12               cb SetTextMatrix document PageSize GetRight 200   document PageSize GetTop 45                cb ShowText text               cb EndText                float len   bf GetWidthPoint text  12                 Adds  12  in Page 1 of 12             cb AddTemplate headerTemplate  document PageSize GetRight 200    len  document PageSize GetTop 45                        Add paging to footer                       cb BeginText                cb SetFontAndSize bf  12               cb SetTextMatrix document PageSize GetRight 180   document PageSize GetBottom 30                cb ShowText text               cb EndText                float len   bf GetWidthPoint text  12               cb AddTemplate footerTemplate  document PageSize GetRight 180    len  document PageSize GetBottom 30                         Row 2         PdfPCell pdfCell4   new PdfPCell new Phrase  Sub Header Description   baseFontNormal               Row 3          PdfPCell pdfCell5   new PdfPCell new Phrase  Date     PrintTime ToShortDateString    baseFontBig            PdfPCell pdfCell6   new PdfPCell            PdfPCell pdfCell7   new PdfPCell new Phrase  TIME     string Format   0 t    DateTime Now   baseFontBig                   set the alignment of all three cells and set border to 0         pdfCell1 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER          pdfCell2 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER          pdfCell3 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER          pdfCell4 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER          pdfCell5 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER          pdfCell6 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER          pdfCell7 HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER               pdfCell2 VerticalAlignment   Element ALIGN BOTTOM          pdfCell3 VerticalAlignment   Element ALIGN MIDDLE          pdfCell4 VerticalAlignment   Element ALIGN TOP          pdfCell5 VerticalAlignment   Element ALIGN MIDDLE          pdfCell6 VerticalAlignment   Element ALIGN MIDDLE          pdfCell7 VerticalAlignment   Element ALIGN MIDDLE               pdfCell4 Colspan   3             pdfCell1 Border   0          pdfCell2 Border   0          pdfCell3 Border   0          pdfCell4 Border   0          pdfCell5 Border   0          pdfCell6 Border   0          pdfCell7 Border   0                 add all three cells into PdfTable         pdfTab AddCell pdfCell1           pdfTab AddCell pdfCell2           pdfTab AddCell pdfCell3           pdfTab AddCell pdfCell4           pdfTab AddCell pdfCell5           pdfTab AddCell pdfCell6           pdfTab AddCell pdfCell7            pdfTab TotalWidth   document PageSize Width - 80f          pdfTab WidthPercentage   70            pdfTab HorizontalAlignment   Element ALIGN CENTER                 call WriteSelectedRows of PdfTable  This writes rows from PdfWriter in PdfTable           first param is start row  -1 indicates there is no end row and all the rows to be included to write           Third and fourth param is x and y position to start writing         pdfTab WriteSelectedRows 0  -1  40  document PageSize Height - 30  writer DirectContent             set pdfContent value            Move the pointer and draw line to separate header section from rest of page         cb MoveTo 40  document PageSize Height - 100           cb LineTo document PageSize Width - 40  document PageSize Height - 100           cb Stroke               Move the pointer and draw line to separate footer section from rest of page         cb MoveTo 40  document PageSize GetBottom 50             cb LineTo document PageSize Width - 40  document PageSize GetBottom 50            cb Stroke               public override void OnCloseDocument PdfWriter writer  Document document                base OnCloseDocument writer  document            headerTemplate BeginText            headerTemplate SetFontAndSize bf  12           headerTemplate SetTextMatrix 0  0           headerTemplate ShowText  writer PageNumber - 1  ToString             headerTemplate EndText             footerTemplate BeginText            footerTemplate SetFontAndSize bf  12           footerTemplate SetTextMatrix 0  0           footerTemplate ShowText  writer PageNumber - 1  ToString             footerTemplate EndText                I hope it helps

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We don t talk about iTextSharp anymore  You are using iText 5 for  NET  The current version is iText 7 for  NET   Obsolete answer   The AddHeader has been deprecated a long time ago and has been removed from iTextSharp  Adding headers and footers is now done using page events  The examples are in Java  but you can find the C  port of the examples here and here  scroll to the bottom of the page for links to the  cs files    Make sure you read the documentation  A common mistake by many developers have made before you  is adding content in the OnStartPage  You should only add content in the OnEndPage  It s also obvious that you need to add the content at absolute coordinates  for instance using ColumnText  and that you need to reserve sufficient space for the header and footer by defining the margins of your document correctly   Updated answer   If you are new to iText  you should use iText 7 and use event handlers to add headers and footers  See chapter 3 of the iText 7 Jump-Start Tutorial for  NET   When you have a PdfDocument in iText 7  you can add an event handler   PdfDocument pdf   new PdfDocument new PdfWriter dest    pdf addEventHandler PdfDocumentEvent END PAGE  new MyEventHandler       This is an example of the hard way to add text at an absolute position  using PdfCanvas    protected internal class MyEventHandler   IEventHandler       public virtual void HandleEvent Event  event            PdfDocumentEvent docEvent    PdfDocumentEvent  event          PdfDocument pdfDoc   docEvent GetDocument            PdfPage page   docEvent GetPage            int pageNumber   pdfDoc GetPageNumber page           Rectangle pageSize   page GetPageSize            PdfCanvas pdfCanvas   new PdfCanvas page NewContentStreamBefore    page GetResources    pdfDoc             Add header         pdfCanvas BeginText                SetFontAndSize C03E03 UFO helvetica  9               MoveText pageSize GetWidth     2 - 60  pageSize GetTop   - 20               ShowText  THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE                MoveText 60  -pageSize GetTop     30               ShowText pageNumber ToString                 EndText            pdfCanvas release              This is a slightly higher-level way  using Canvas   protected internal class MyEventHandler   IEventHandler       public virtual void HandleEvent Event  event            PdfDocumentEvent docEvent    PdfDocumentEvent  event          PdfDocument pdfDoc   docEvent GetDocument            PdfPage page   docEvent GetPage            int pageNumber   pdfDoc GetPageNumber page           Rectangle pageSize   page GetPageSize            PdfCanvas pdfCanvas   new PdfCanvas page NewContentStreamBefore    page GetResources    pdfDoc             Add watermark         Canvas canvas   new Canvas pdfCanvas  pdfDoc  page getPageSize             canvas setFontColor Color WHITE           canvas setProperty Property FONT SIZE  60           canvas setProperty Property FONT  helveticaBold           canvas showTextAligned new Paragraph  CONFIDENTIAL                298  421  pdfDoc getPageNumber page               TextAlignment CENTER  VerticalAlignment MIDDLE  45           pdfCanvas release              There are other ways to add content at absolute positions  They are described in the different iText books

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