VBScript Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

Find Out Whether a PDF Has a Watermark

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Demonstrates detect, which answers yes or no, and list, which enumerates what is there. Both recognize the watermarks Chilkat writes and the standard forms other tools write: Watermark annotations from any producer, marked content tagged as a Watermark or Background artifact, Acrobat watermarks and backgrounds, and optional-content layers whose name says watermark. Acrobat headers and footers are not watermarks and are ignored. A watermark from another producer has no id of its own, so Chilkat assigns one (ext1, ext2, ...) that stays valid until the PDF is changed, which is what makes a list followed by a remove by id work. Properties that cannot be read back are left out rather than guessed. VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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 acrobat_two_watermarks.pdf

set pdf = CreateObject("Chilkat.Pdf")
success = pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/acrobat_two_watermarks.pdf")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(pdf.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  An empty filter means every watermark in the document.
set filter = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
set jsonOut = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = pdf.Watermark("detect",filter,jsonOut)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(pdf.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("found: " & jsonOut.BoolOf("found") & " count: " & jsonOut.IntOf("count"))

success = pdf.Watermark("list",filter,jsonOut)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(pdf.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

i = 0
count_i = jsonOut.SizeOfArray("watermarks")
Do While i < count_i
    jsonOut.I = i
    outFile.WriteLine("id: " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].id"))
    outFile.WriteLine("   source:    " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].source"))
    outFile.WriteLine("   approach:  " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].approach"))
    outFile.WriteLine("   type:      " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].type"))
    outFile.WriteLine("   text:      " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].text"))
    outFile.WriteLine("   pages:     " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].pages"))
    outFile.WriteLine("   zOrder:    " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].zOrder"))
    outFile.WriteLine("   removable: " & jsonOut.BoolOf("watermarks[i].removable"))
    i = i + 1
Loop

'  The filter narrows what is reported: by producer (chilkat, acrobat or other), by approach, by
'  pages, by an exact id or label, or by text with textContains.
set bySource = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = bySource.UpdateString("source","acrobat")
success = pdf.Watermark("detect",bySource,jsonOut)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(pdf.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("made by Acrobat: " & jsonOut.IntOf("count"))

'  Sample output:

'  found: True count: 2
'  id: ext1
'     source:    acrobat
'     approach:  artifact
'     type:      image
'     text:
'     pages:     1
'     zOrder:    front
'     removable: True
'  id: ext2
'     source:    acrobat
'     approach:  artifact
'     type:      text
'     text:      sample
'     pages:     1
'     zOrder:    front
'     removable: True
'  made by Acrobat: 2

outFile.Close