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How to add header and footer with pdf sdk in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to code in C# to add header and footer with pdf sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

These sample source codes on this page below are displaying how to add header and footer with pdf sdk in C#. ByteScout PDF Suite can add header and footer with pdf sdk. It can be applied from C#. ByteScout PDF Suite is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Suite for C# plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to add header and footer with pdf sdk. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDF;
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Font = Bytescout.PDF.Font;
using SolidBrush = Bytescout.PDF.SolidBrush;

namespace AddHeaderAndFooter
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                using (Document doc = new Document())
                {
                    doc.RegistrationName = "demo";
                    doc.RegistrationKey = "demo";

                    doc.Load("sample.pdf");

                    // Prepare simple template (for example, a logo) and draw it on every page
                    // Create template of specified size
                    GraphicsTemplate headerTemplate = new GraphicsTemplate(250, 50);
                    headerTemplate.DrawString("Here is a header text", new Font(StandardFonts.CourierBold, 15), new SolidBrush(), 30, 10);

                    GraphicsTemplate footerTemplate = new GraphicsTemplate(250, 50);
                    footerTemplate.DrawString("Here is the footer text", new Font(StandardFonts.CourierBold, 15), new SolidBrush(), 30, 10);

                    // Write template in each pages
                    for (int i = 0; i < doc.Pages.Count; i++)
                    {
                        Page currentPage = doc.Pages[i];
                        currentPage.Canvas.DrawTemplate(headerTemplate, 40, 10);
                        currentPage.Canvas.DrawTemplate(footerTemplate, 350, (currentPage.Height - 40));
                    }

                    // Save output file
                    doc.Save("result.pdf");
                }

                // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
                ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
                processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
                Process.Start(processStartInfo);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Press enter key to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}