import com.itextpdf.kernel.colors.DeviceRgb;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.events.Event;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.events.IEventHandler;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.events.PdfDocumentEvent;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.geom.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.geom.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDocument;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.canvas.PdfCanvas;
import com.itextpdf.layout.Canvas;
import com.itextpdf.layout.Document;
import com.itextpdf.layout.borders.Border;
import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Cell;
import com.itextpdf.layout.element.List;
import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Table;
import com.itextpdf.layout.property.TextAlignment;
import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
class TextHeaderEventHandler implements IEventHandler {
    @Override
    public void handleEvent(Event event) {
        PdfDocumentEvent docEvent = (PdfDocumentEvent) event;
        PdfCanvas pdfCanvas = new PdfCanvas(docEvent.getPage());
        Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(35, 740, 520, 100);
        pdfCanvas.rectangle(rectangle);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(pdfCanvas, rectangle).setFontSize(7);
        // load logo image here and add
        // canvas.add(image);
        canvas.add(new Paragraph("My custom header line goes here."));
        // bottom line
        canvas.add(new Paragraph("---------------------------------------------------------------------"));
class TextFooterEventHandler implements IEventHandler {
    @Override
    public void handleEvent(Event event) {
        PdfDocumentEvent docEvent = (PdfDocumentEvent) event;
        PdfCanvas pdfCanvas = new PdfCanvas(docEvent.getPage());
        Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(35, 30, 520, 50);
        pdfCanvas.rectangle(rectangle);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(pdfCanvas, rectangle).setFontSize(7);
        // bottom line
        canvas.add(new Paragraph("---------------------------------------------------------------------"));
        // footer text
        canvas.add(new Paragraph("My custom footer line goes here."));
 * https://turkogluc.com/java-creating-pdf-reports-with-itext/
public class HeaderFooter {
    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(HeaderFooter.class);
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Properties log4jProperties = new Properties();
        log4jProperties.put("log4j.appender.ConsoleAppender", "org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender");
        log4jProperties.put("log4j.appender.ConsoleAppender.layout", "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout");
        log4jProperties.put("log4j.appender.ConsoleAppender.layout.ConversionPattern", "%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n");
        log4jProperties.put("log4j.rootLogger", "DEBUG, ConsoleAppender");
        PropertyConfigurator.configure(log4jProperties);
        HeaderFooter main = new HeaderFooter();
        main.generatePdf();
    public void generatePdf() throws IOException {
        // Creating a PdfWriter
        String dest = "/tmp/example.pdf";
        PdfWriter writer = new PdfWriter(dest);
        // Creating a PdfDocument
        PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(writer);
        // Creating a Document
        Document document = new Document(pdfDoc);
        document.setFontSize(10);
        pdfDoc.addNewPage(PageSize.A4);
        document.setMargins(80, 36, 80, 36);
        pdfDoc.addEventHandler(PdfDocumentEvent.START_PAGE, new TextHeaderEventHandler());
        pdfDoc.addEventHandler(PdfDocumentEvent.END_PAGE, new TextFooterEventHandler());
        // Adding a new page
        pdfDoc.addNewPage(PageSize.A4);
        // document.setMargins(80, 36, 60, 36);
        String content = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...jjjj";
        Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph(content);
        paragraph.setFontSize(14);
        paragraph.setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.CENTER);
        paragraph.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER);
        paragraph.setFirstLineIndent(20);
        paragraph.setItalic();
        paragraph.setBold();
        paragraph.setBackgroundColor(new DeviceRgb(245, 245, 245));
        paragraph.setMargin(10);
        paragraph.setPaddingLeft(10);
        paragraph.setPaddingRight(10);
        paragraph.setWidth(1000);
        paragraph.setHeight(100);
        document.add(paragraph);
        int listIndex = 1;
        List list = new List();
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++, listIndex++) {
            list.add("Java --> " + listIndex);
            list.add("Go");
            list.add("React");
            list.add("Apache Kafka");
            list.add("Jenkins");
            list.add("Elastic Search");
        document.add(list);
        // adding a table adds a rectangle into the header part
        Table table = new Table(new float[]{150F, 150F, 150F, 150F});
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("Id")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("Name")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("Location")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("Date")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("1000")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("Item-1")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("Istanbul")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("01/12/2020")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("1005")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("Item-2")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("Warsaw")));
        table.addCell(new Cell().add(new Paragraph("05/12/2020")));
        document.add(table);
        // extra list
        list = new List();
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++, listIndex++) {
            list.add("Java --> " + listIndex);
            list.add("Go");
            list.add("React");
            list.add("Apache Kafka");
            list.add("Jenkins");
            list.add("Elastic Search");
        document.add(list);
        // Closing the document
        document.close();