I'm having some trouble getting a footer to appear as one frame on the first page of a Pisa document, and as another frame on every other page. I have attempted to adapt the lastPage idea from here, but with no luck.
Is it possible to do this? <pdf:nextpage /> doesn't seem to be the right thing here since the document has a long table that may (or may not) flow over multiple pages. <pdf:nextframe /> plus a first-page-only frame looks promising, though I'm not sure how to use this exactly.
Currently I have (snipped for brevity):
<style type="text/css">
@page {
margin: 1cm;
margin-bottom: 2.5cm;
@frame footer {
-pdf-frame-content: footerFirst;
-pdf-frame-border: 1;
bottom: 2cm;
margin-left: 1cm;
margin-right: 1cm;
height: 1cm;
}
@frame footer {
-pdf-frame-content: footerOther;
bottom: 2cm;
margin-left: 1cm;
margin-right: 1cm;
height: 1cm;
}
</style>
<body>
<table repeat="1">
<!-- extra long table here -->
</table>
<div id="footerContent">This is a footer</div>
<!-- what goes here to switch frames after the first page? -->
<div id="footerOther"></div>
</body>
This places the same footer on each page. I need the same space left on each consecutive pages, but with no content in the frame.
You can define additional layouts by name, then tell xhtml2pdf to switch to them explicitly using the nexttemplate tag. I did exactly this recently to have no header on my first page but to show it on all the subsequent pages.
You should change your @page definition to two different pages, perhaps like this:
Then, in your html where you want to switch to the different layout, use a tag like this:
The next page (and subsequent pages until you change the template again) will use the innerpages layout with your 'other' footer.