That's a situation where you must leave Document.add() and do your own
layout with ColumnText. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Niklas Pettersson
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:29 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] Changing document margins from one 
> page to the other
> 
> Hi list!
> 
>  
> 
> I would like to use a different header on the first page 
> versus the following pages. Both headers are tables 
> implemented using PdpPTable. The header for page 1 is larger 
> than the one used for page 2 and forward. The content of the 
> page should follow directly beneath the header table.  To 
> achieve this I  realise that I must find a way to manipulate 
> the margins in the document to prevent the content from 
> overwriting the headers.
> 
>  
> 
> I have implemented this using onStartPage() to place my 
> headers in order to be able to calculate the height of the 
> header table (using tab.getTotalHeight()) and changing the 
> margins before any content is written to the document. I use 
> document.setMargins(LEFT, RIGHT, newTop, newBottom)  to set 
> the new margins.
> 
>  
> 
> But this is not working as it should!! 
> 
>  
> 
> The margins on the first page is just as I initiated them 
> when the document object was created. The margins does change 
> on page 2 to those intended for page 1. On page 3 everything 
> looks like it should. 
> 
>  
> 
> What am I doing wrong...??
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> mvh
> 
>  
> 
> // Niklas Pettersson
> 
> SchoolSoft
> 
>  
> 
> 


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