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PowerBuilder Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

Add a CONFIDENTIAL Watermark to Every Page of a PDF

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Demonstrates the simplest watermark: a line of text across every page. "rotation" set to diagonal runs the text from the bottom-left corner to the top-right, computed for each page size, and "scale" with fit page sizes it to fill 80 percent of the page. The watermark is stored as a marked artifact by default, which means viewers show it, text extraction leaves it out, and it can be found and removed again later. Nothing is written until WriteFile is called.

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integer li_rc
long li_Success
oleobject loo_Pdf
oleobject loo_Json
oleobject loo_JsonOut

li_Success = 0

//  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

//  The PDF used in this example is available at long_report.pdf

loo_Pdf = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Pdf.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Pdf")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Pdf
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
li_Success = loo_Pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/long_report.pdf")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Pdf.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Pdf
    return
end if

loo_Json = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Json.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

loo_Json.UpdateString("type","text")
loo_Json.UpdateString("text","CONFIDENTIAL")

//  An id of your own choosing, so that the watermark can be found and removed later.  One is
//  generated when you do not give one.
loo_Json.UpdateString("id","confidential")

loo_Json.UpdateString("color","#C00000")
loo_Json.UpdateNumber("opacity","0.25")
loo_Json.UpdateString("rotation","diagonal")
loo_Json.UpdateString("scale.fit","page")
loo_Json.UpdateNumber("scale.fitPercent","80")

loo_JsonOut = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_JsonOut.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

li_Success = loo_Pdf.Watermark("add",loo_Json,loo_JsonOut)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Pdf.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Pdf
    destroy loo_Json
    destroy loo_JsonOut
    return
end if

//  The id, and the pages it was stamped on.  "pages" defaults to all.
Write-Debug "id: " + loo_JsonOut.StringOf("id")
Write-Debug "pages: " + loo_JsonOut.StringOf("pages")

li_Success = loo_Pdf.WriteFile("qa_output/report_confidential.pdf")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Pdf.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Pdf
    destroy loo_Json
    destroy loo_JsonOut
    return
end if

//  Sample output:

//  id: confidential
//  pages: 1-3


destroy loo_Pdf
destroy loo_Json
destroy loo_JsonOut