visualforcepdf

Create awesome pdf's on salesforce using visualforce

Brief intro Salesforce PDF generation

Salesforce under the hood uses "Flying-Saucer" rendering engine to render the pdf of the fly.
Check out more about Flying-Saucer here : It basically supports CSS2.1 and minimal features of CSS3.
I would recommend you to go through @Page css properties and this link for a better understanding http://www.antennahouse.com/CSSInfo/CSS-Page-Tutorial-en.pdf

3 Demo Examples are provided

Demo 1: https://awesomepdf-developer-edition.ap1.force.com/PDF/awesomePDF_Case1
Repeating Header / Footer
Demo 2: https://awesomepdf-developer-edition.ap1.force.com/PDF/awesomePDF_Case2
Repeating Header / Footer, First Page is LandScape and rest all are in Portrait
Demo 3: https://awesomepdf-developer-edition.ap1.force.com/PDF/awesomePDF_Case3
Repeating Header / Footer, First n Pages is Portrait and rest n in LandScapemode

Usage: Download the html files, create a new visualforce page and the source code of the html file.