The itext support was designed to be the simplest possible thing that works while still being extremely easy to extend to support more itext concepts. I've been extending it according to user requests, but it's mostly been in maintenance mode for the last few releases. The next big change I will make is to try and remove the troubling redirect. The options are limited since facelets tragically doesn't support non-text output, but I think I can render the template in the background and return the PDF to the user immediately. I'd love to improve the header/footer support as you suggest. Right now it's a real pain because what itext is doing here is really inconvenient. I you have any code, just open up a JIRA issue, and I'll work with you to get it in. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4105623#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...