mlreportgen.dom.PDFPageFooter class

Package: mlreportgen.dom
Superclasses:

Page footer definition for PDF document

Description

Add a footer to the first page of a layout or to odd pages, even pages, or both.

Construction

pdfFooter = PDFPageFooter() creates an empty page footer based on the default PDF template.

pdfFooter = PDFPageFooter(pageType) creates a page footer for the specified type of page, that is, odd, even, or first, based on the default PDF template.

pdfFooter = PDFPageFooter(pageType,templatePath) creates a page footer based on the specified template.

pdfFooter = PDFPageFooter(pageType,templatePath,docPartTemplateName) creates a page footer for the specified type of page, based on the specified document part template in the specified template.

pdfFooter = PDFPageFooter(pageType,templateSrc,docPartTemplateName) creates a page footer for the specified type of page, based on the specified document part template from the specified source. The source can be a document or a document part.

Input Arguments

pageType — Type of pages the footer appears on

[] (default) | default | first | even

Type of pages the footer appears on, specified as one of these values:

• default — Footer for odd pages of the section, even pages if you do not specify an even-page footer, and first page if you do not specify a first-page footer.

• first — Footer for first page of a section.

• even — Footer for even pages of a section.

For example, to make different footers appear on odd pages and on even pages, define two footers. Set pageType to default for one and to even for the other.

templatePath — Full path of footer template

character vector

Full path of footer template, specified as a character vector.

docPartTemplateName — Document part template name

character vector

Name of this part’s template if it is stored in a template specified by the templatePath or templateSrc argument, specified as a character vector.

templateSrc — Document or document part that holds the document part template

mlreportgen.dom.Document object | mlreportgen.dom.DocumentPart object

Document or document part object whose template contains the template for this document part, specified as an mlreportgen.dom.Document object for a document or an mlreportgen.dom.DocumentPart object for a document part.

Output Arguments

pdfFooter — Page footer for PDF document

mlreportgen.dom.PDFPageFooter object

Page footer for a PDF document, returned as an mlreportgen.dom.PDFPageFooter object.

Properties

Children — Children of document element

array of DOM objects

Children of this document element, specified as an array of DOM objects. This property is read-only.

CurrentPageLayout — Page footers ignore this property

Not applicable

This property does not apply to page footers.

CurrentHoleId — ID of current hole in document

character vector

This read-only property is the hole ID of the current hole in this document.

CurrentHoleType — Type of current hole

'Inline' | 'Block'

Type of the current template hole, specified as 'Inline' or 'Block'.

• An inline hole is for document elements that a paragraph element can contain: Text, Image, LinkTarget, ExternalLink, InternalLink, CharEntity, AutoNumber.

• A block hole can contain a Paragraph, Table, OrderedList, UnorderedList, DocumentPart, or Group.

Id — ID for this document element

character vector | string scalar

ID for this document element, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM generates a session-unique ID when it creates the document element. You can specify your own ID.

PageType — Type of pages on which footer appears

[] (default) | default | first | even

Type of page on which the footer appears, specified as one of these values:

• default — Footer for odd pages of the section, even pages if you do not specify an even-page footer, and first page if you do not specify a first-page footer.

• first — Footer for first page of a section.

• even — Footer for even pages in a section.

To have a footer appear on odd pages and on even pages, define two footers, one with pageType set to default and the other with pageType set to even.

Parent — Parent of document element

DOM object

Parent of this document element, specified as a DOM object. This property is read-only.

Tag — Tag for this document element

character vector | string scalar

Tag for this document element, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

The DOM generates a session-unique tag as part of the creation of this object. The generated tag has the form CLASS:ID, where CLASS is the object class and ID is the value of the Id property of the object. Specifying your own tag value can help you to identify where an issue occurred during document generation.

TemplatePath — Path to template used for footer

character vector

Full path to the template to use for this footer, specified as a character vector.

Methods

Use DocumentPageFooter methods as you use the corresponding Document methods.

Method	Purpose
append	Append one of these DOM objects to the footer: CustomElement FormalTable Group ExternalLink Image InternalLink OrderedList Paragraph RawText Table Text UnorderedList
close	Close the footer.
fill	Fill the template hole.
moveToNextHole	Move to the next template hole.
open	Open the footer.

Examples

Add a Footer to a PDF Document

This example defines first, even, and odd page footers in a PDF document. It inserts a page number in each footer, using a different alignment for each page type.

import mlreportgen.dom.*;
d = Document('mydoc','pdf');
open(d);

% Create page footer objects for each type of page
% Assign a matrix of page footer objects to the current page layout
firstfooter = PDFPageFooter('first');
evenfooter = PDFPageFooter('even');
oddfooter = PDFPageFooter('default');
d.CurrentPageLayout.PageFooters = [firstfooter,evenfooter,oddfooter];

% Add title to first page footer
p = Paragraph('My Document Title');
p.HAlign = 'center';
append(d.CurrentPageLayout.PageFooters(1),p);

% Add page number to even page footer
% Align even page numbers left
pg2 = Page();
p2 = Paragraph();
p2.HAlign = 'left';
append(p2,pg2);
append(d.CurrentPageLayout.PageFooters(2),p2);

% Add page number to odd page footer
% Align odd page numbers right
pg3 = Page();
p3 = Paragraph();
p3.HAlign = 'right';
append(p3,pg3);
append(d.CurrentPageLayout.PageFooters(3),p3);

% Create several pages.
p = Paragraph('Hello World');
append(d,p);
p = Paragraph('Another page');
p.Style = {PageBreakBefore(true)};
append(d,p);
append(d,clone(p));

close(d);
rptview(d.OutputPath);