Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim oDoc As New iTextSharp.text.Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4)
        PdfWriter.GetInstance(oDoc, New FileStream("Nofooteronfirstpage.pdf", FileMode.Create))
        oDoc.Open()
        Dim footer As New HeaderFooter(New Phrase("This is page: "), True)
        oDoc.Footer = footer
        Dim header As New HeaderFooter(New Phrase("Image scanned on " & Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") & " by " & Environment.UserName), False)
        oDoc.Header = header
        For i As Integer = 1 To 2
            oDoc.Add(New Phrase("some random text" & i))
            oDoc.NewPage()
        Next
        oDoc.Close()
    End Sub```
The above code does not print a header or footer on the first page and it seemed to me that it should.

<div class="image_block">
  <img src="https://lessthandot.z19.web.core.windows.net/wp-content/uploads/blogs/DesktopDev/itextsharp/pdfnoimageonfirstpage.png" alt="" title="" width="549" height="928" />
</div>

But I found the solution in the end.

```vbnet
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
        Dim oDoc As New iTextSharp.text.Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4)
        PdfWriter.GetInstance(oDoc, New FileStream("footeronfirstpage.pdf", FileMode.Create))
        Dim footer As New HeaderFooter(New Phrase("This is page: "), True)
        oDoc.Footer = footer
        Dim header As New HeaderFooter(New Phrase("Image scanned on " & Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") & " by " & Environment.UserName), False)
        oDoc.Header = header
        oDoc.Open()
        For i As Integer = 1 To 2
            oDoc.Add(New Phrase("some random text" & i))
            oDoc.NewPage()
        Next
        oDoc.Close()
    End Sub```
Can you see the difference? Ok, I&#8217;ll tell you. The Document is no longer opened before setting the header and footer but after setting the header and footer.

Which then gave this result.

<div class="image_block">
  <img src="https://lessthandot.z19.web.core.windows.net/wp-content/uploads/blogs/DesktopDev/itextsharp/pdffooteronfirstpage.png" alt="" title="" width="549" height="928" />
</div>

 [1]: http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/