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Classic ASP Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

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.

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
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 four_pages.pdf

set pdf = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Pdf")
success = pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/four_pages.pdf")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pdf.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

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

set jsonOut = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = pdf.Watermark("add",json,jsonOut)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pdf.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "footer pages: " & jsonOut.StringOf("pages")) & "</pre>"

'  Roman numerals that start at i on page 2, so that a cover page is not numbered.
set pdf2 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Pdf")
success = pdf2.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/four_pages.pdf")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pdf2.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set json2 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json2.UpdateString("type","text")
success = json2.UpdateString("text","- {page} -")
success = json2.UpdateString("id","roman")
success = json2.UpdateString("pages","2-")
success = json2.UpdateInt("pageNumber.start",1)
success = json2.UpdateString("pageNumber.style","romanLower")
success = json2.UpdateString("position.align","bottom")
success = json2.UpdateNumber("font.size","10")
success = pdf2.Watermark("add",json2,jsonOut)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pdf2.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "roman pages: " & jsonOut.StringOf("pages")) & "</pre>"

success = pdf.WriteFile("qa_output/four_pages_numbered.pdf")
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( pdf.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Sample output:

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

%>
</body>
</html>