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All kinds of Text-elements can be added to a HTMLDocument. The Document signals all the listeners when an element has been added.

Remark:

1. Once a document is created you can add some meta information.
2. You can also set the headers/footers.
3. You have to open the document before you can write content.
4. You can only write content (no more meta-formation!) once a document is opened.
5. When you change the header/footer on a certain page, this will be effective starting on the next page.
6. Ater closing the document, every listener (as well as its OutputStream) is closed too.

// creation of the document with a certain size and certain margins
 Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50, 50);
  try { 
 // creation of the different writers 
 HtmlWriter.getInstance(document , System.out);
 PdfWriter.getInstance(document , new FileOutputStream("text.pdf"));
 // we add some meta information to the document
 document.addAuthor("Bruno Lowagie"); 
 document.addSubject("This is the result of a Test."); 
 // we open the document for writing
 document.open(); 
 document.add(new Paragraph("Hello world"));
 } catch(DocumentException de) {
 System.err.println(de.getMessage());
 }
 document.close();
 

Once all the content has been written in the body, you have to close the body.

Once the document is opened, you can't write any Header- or Meta-information anymore.

Once all the content has been written in the body, you have to close the body. After that nothing can be written to the body anymore.

Once the document is opened, you can't write any Header- or Meta-information anymore. You have to open the document before you can begin to add content to the body of the document.

Note: it will not work with Table .
Parameters:
  marginMirroring - true to mirror the margins always true