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pagination/page_x_of_y

Create a running footer "Page x of y" on each page of the document.

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/*
 * Create page X of Y:
 * Create a running footer "Page x of y" on each page of the document
 *
 * On each page a running header or footer "Page x of y" is required where x is
 * the current page number and y is the total number of pages in the document.
 * Since y is only known after creating all pages, the number y must be added
 * to each page after creating the bulk of the document.
 *
 * This topic demonstrates the use of suspend/resume_page().
 *
 * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9
 * Required data: none
 */
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.pagination;

import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;

public class page_x_of_y
{
    public static void main (String argv[])
    {
        /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
        String searchpath = "../input";
        String outfile = "page_x_of_y.pdf";
        String title = "Create Page X of Y";

        pdflib p = null;
        int x = 500, y = 20, pagecount = 0, font;
        int exitcode = 0;

        try {
            p = new pdflib();

            p.set_option("searchpath={" + searchpath + "}");

            /* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
            p.set_option("errorpolicy=return");

            if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)
                throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

            p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
            p.set_info("Title", title);

            font = p.load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "unicode", "");
            if (font == -1)
                throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

            /* Create some pages while counting the total number of pages.
             * Suspend the creation of each page to be able to add the total number
             * of pages later. Resume the page creation to add the total number of
             * pages in a footer like "Page X of Y".
             *
             * Create page 1
             */
            p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");

            pagecount++;
            p.setcolor("fill", "rgb", 0, 0.4, 0.4, 0);
            p.setfont(font, 12);
            p.show_xy("Page 1", x, y);

            /* Suspend page 1 to resume it later */
            p.suspend_page("");

            /* Create page 2 */
            p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
            pagecount++;
            p.setcolor("fill", "rgb", 0, 0.4, 0.4, 0);
            p.setfont(font, 12);
            p.show_xy("Page 2", x, y);

            /* Suspend page 2 to resume it later */
            p.suspend_page("");

            /* Create page 3 */
            p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
            pagecount++;
            p.setcolor("fill", "rgb", 0, 0.4, 0.4, 0);
            p.setfont(font, 12);
            p.show_xy("Page 3", x, y);

            /* Suspend page 3 to resume it later */
            p.suspend_page("");

            /* Revisit page 1 */
            p.resume_page("pagenumber 1");

            /* Add the total number of pages */
            p.show(" of " + pagecount);
            p.end_page_ext("");

            /* Revisit page 2 */
            p.resume_page("pagenumber 2");

            /* Add the total number of pages */
            p.show(" of " + pagecount);
            p.end_page_ext("");

            /* Revisit page 3 */
            p.resume_page("pagenumber 3");

            /* Add the total number of pages */
            p.show(" of " + pagecount);
            p.end_page_ext("");

            p.end_document("");

        } catch (PDFlibException e) {
            System.err.println("PDFlib exception occurred:");
            System.err.println("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname()
                + ": " + e.get_errmsg());
            exitcode = 1;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(e);
            exitcode = 1;
        } finally {
            if (p != null) {
                p.delete();
            }
            System.exit(exitcode);
        }
    }
}