PDF export: add date modified

[Joachim Plener]

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

[calo]

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.

[Guilherme Nedel [Atlassian]]

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());

 

%>

[Joachim Plener]

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

[Richie Hazlewood]

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?

[Shell D]

Joachim Plener - did you end up figuring out how to add the 'last modified' date to the footer?

[mistadave]

Is there no easier way to include the current date into the footer for each PDF export ? 
Creating an image for a date just to put it on the footer seems to me making this problem extreme complicated.