I need the last modified date of a page to be put into the footer of every page when exporting to PDF. How can I achieve this?
Thanks in advance!
Joachim
Hi Joachim, currently that is not a feature within the application export, nevertheless some customers did report being able to add so using a bit of CSS styling - posted below, please review the comment from Gerhardt Müller for more info.
We have solved this by creating a simple jsp 'dateimage.jsp' in the confluence root dir, which creates the current date as image, and included a reference in the footer like this: Print date: <img src="/dateimage.jsp" width="85" height="10" /> This is the jsp (for german dates, adapt as necessary): <%@ page import="java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D"%><%@ page import="java.awt.AlphaComposite"%><%@ page session="false"%><%@ page import="java.util.Date"%><%@ page import="javax.imageio.ImageIO"%><%@ page import="java.awt.Font"%><%@ page import="java.awt.Color"%><%@ page import="java.awt.Graphics2D"%><%@ page import="java.awt.image.BufferedImage"%><%@ page import="java.util.Locale"%><%@ page import="java.text.DateFormat"%><%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%><% // size of the image final int height = 100; final int width = 850; // create string in correct date format DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM, Locale.GERMAN); String dateString = df.format(new Date()); // create white default image BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); // create graphic Graphics2D dateGraphics2D = null; try { dateGraphics2D = bufferedImage.createGraphics(); // write string to in Black graphics dateGraphics2D.setColor(Color.BLACK); dateGraphics2D.setFont(new Font("Helvetica", Font.PLAIN, height)); dateGraphics2D.drawString(dateString, 0, height-2); } finally { // dispose graphics always if (dateGraphics2D != null) { dateGraphics2D.dispose(); } } // write output response.setContentType("image/png"); ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "png", response.getOutputStream()); %>
We have solved this by creating a simple jsp 'dateimage.jsp' in the confluence root dir, which creates the current date as image, and included a reference in the footer like this:
Print date: <img src="/dateimage.jsp" width="85" height="10" />
This is the jsp (for german dates, adapt as necessary):
<%@ page import="java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D"%><%@ page import="java.awt.AlphaComposite"%><%@ page session="false"%><%@ page import="java.util.Date"%><%@ page import="javax.imageio.ImageIO"%><%@ page import="java.awt.Font"%><%@ page import="java.awt.Color"%><%@ page import="java.awt.Graphics2D"%><%@ page import="java.awt.image.BufferedImage"%><%@ page import="java.util.Locale"%><%@ page import="java.text.DateFormat"%><%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%><% // size of the image final int height = 100; final int width = 850; // create string in correct date format DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM, Locale.GERMAN); String dateString = df.format(new Date()); // create white default image BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); // create graphic Graphics2D dateGraphics2D = null; try { dateGraphics2D = bufferedImage.createGraphics(); // write string to in Black graphics dateGraphics2D.setColor(Color.BLACK); dateGraphics2D.setFont(new Font("Helvetica", Font.PLAIN, height)); dateGraphics2D.drawString(dateString, 0, height-2); } finally { // dispose graphics always if (dateGraphics2D != null) { dateGraphics2D.dispose(); } } // write output response.setContentType("image/png"); ImageIO.write(bufferedImage, "png", response.getOutputStream()); %>
Thanks for your reply! But it seems it is not exactly what we need... We do NOT need the current date in our PDF-exports, but the date, the Confluence page was LAST MODIFIED - ideally together with the author of that most recent edit. It is there - on top of every page, but in does not apear in any export-type (PDF / Word).
Another idea: Perhaps does anyone know some kind of makro, that puts this kind of information into the "printable" / exportable region of a page?
best regards, Joachim
Surely the last modified date can be piped through to the pdf exporter. Its already on the page being exported. Is this really not possible?
I only know RasterEdge PDF control can modify PDF pages, but I don't know whether it's what you wanted.
If you still need it, you can google it.
Joachim Plener - did you end up figuring out how to add the 'last modified' date to the footer?
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