design.setDefaultUnits("in");
design.setProperty("comments", "what not and what have you");
SimpleMasterPageHandle element = efactory
.newSimpleMasterPage("Page Master");
DesignElementHandle footerText = efactory.newTextItem("test");
footerText.setProperty("contentType", "html");
footerText.setStringProperty("content", "MyTest");
// Add in a simple page footer to our master page
element.getPageFooter().add(footerText);