PD4PageMark and header/footer height for different pages

#26750

Hi there,

I’m currently evaluating PD4ML and all going well apart from the following issue. I have extended PD4PageMark to supply different HTML for the first page header/footer from the subsequent pages. For example, each header/footer would be defined by:

public class DifferingPageMarker extends PD4PageMark {

protected String firstPageHtml;
protected String otherPageHtml;

public DifferingPageMarker(String firstPageHtml, String otherPageHtml) {
super();
this.firstPageHtml = firstPageHtml;
this.otherPageHtml = otherPageHtml;
setAreaHeight(-1);
}

@Override
public String getHtmlTemplate(int pageNumber) {
if(pageNumber == 1) {
return firstPageHtml;
}
return otherPageHtml;
}
}

The problem is that the subsequent footer/headers seem to adhere to the first page header/footer heights – so if the first header/footer is large/small, the second header/footer takes up the same space, even if the content is smaller/larger.

Any help would be appreciated – am I not supplying the height correctly? Should I be doing this in a different way?

Kind Regards,
Rob

#29056

You are faced with a limitation of header/footer API of PD4ML. If you need different header or footer heights depending on page, you have to use inline definitions and

See https://pd4ml.com/cookbook/pdf_header_footer_generation.htm

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