SelectPdf display footer only on custom pages

Question

I'm using SelectPDF to convert an HTML template into a PDF. The design I'm following requires to display a footer only on the first page.

The documentation does not cover custom pages display.

Anyone tried this before?

Answer 1

As you can see the documentation you can create a custom HTML document, it name is footer.html. This document will contains your custom footer.

This is the initialization.

string footerUrl = Server.MapPath("~/files/footer.html");

After that you have to init the converter object and set it.

HtmlToPdf converter = new HtmlToPdf();
converter.Options.DisplayFooter = true;
converter.Footer.DisplayOnFirstPage = true;

PdfHtmlSection footerHtml = new PdfHtmlSection(footerUrl);
            footerHtml.AutoFitHeight = HtmlToPdfPageFitMode.AutoFit;
            converter.Footer.Add(footerHtml);

UPDATE:

This piece of code create a new pdf from URL and add custom footer for the first page.

PdfDocument doc = converter.ConvertUrl(@"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster");
            PdfPage page = doc.Pages[0];

            PdfTemplate customFooter = doc.AddTemplate(
                page.PageSize.Width, 20);
            PdfHtmlElement customHtml = new PdfHtmlElement(
                "<div><b>This is the custom footer that will " +
                "appear only on page 1!</b></div>",
                string.Empty);
            customFooter.Add(customHtml);

            page.CustomFooter = customFooter;


            doc.Save("Test.pdf");
            doc.Close();

I hope it will help you Cheers