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Page Numbers, Dates and the File Name in a PDF Watermark

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Demonstrates the placeholders a text watermark understands, each replaced per page as the watermark is added: {page} is the page number, {pages} the page count, {date:FORMAT} the current local date and time, and {filename} the name of the file that was loaded. Two braces give a literal brace. pageNumber.start sets what {page} is on the first page, which is how a numbering that ignores a cover is produced, and pageNumber.style formats both {page} and {pages} as decimal, romanUpper, romanLower, letterUpper or letterLower. PowerShell

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  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 four_pages.pdf

$pdf = New-Object Chilkat.Pdf
$success = $pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/four_pages.pdf")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($pdf.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.UpdateString("type","text")
$json.UpdateString("text","Page {page} of {pages}  -  printed {date:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm}  -  {filename}")
$json.UpdateString("id","pagefoot")
$json.UpdateString("position.align","bottom")
$json.UpdateNumber("position.margin","24")
$json.UpdateNumber("font.size","9")
$json.UpdateString("color","#505050")

$jsonOut = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$success = $pdf.Watermark("add",$json,$jsonOut)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($pdf.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("footer pages: " + $jsonOut.StringOf("pages"))

#  Roman numerals that start at i on page 2, so that a cover page is not numbered.
$pdf2 = New-Object Chilkat.Pdf
$success = $pdf2.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/four_pages.pdf")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($pdf2.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$json2 = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json2.UpdateString("type","text")
$json2.UpdateString("text","- {page} -")
$json2.UpdateString("id","roman")
$json2.UpdateString("pages","2-")
$json2.UpdateInt("pageNumber.start",1)
$json2.UpdateString("pageNumber.style","romanLower")
$json2.UpdateString("position.align","bottom")
$json2.UpdateNumber("font.size","10")
$success = $pdf2.Watermark("add",$json2,$jsonOut)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($pdf2.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("roman pages: " + $jsonOut.StringOf("pages"))

$success = $pdf.WriteFile("qa_output/four_pages_numbered.pdf")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($pdf.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Sample output:

#  footer pages: 1-4
#  roman pages: 2-4