B4X 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. B4X

Dim success As Boolean = 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 acrobat_two_watermarks.pdf

Dim pdf As ChilkatPdf
pdf.Initialize("pdf")
success = pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/acrobat_two_watermarks.pdf")
If success = False Then
    Log(pdf.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  An empty filter means every watermark in the document.
Dim filter As ChilkatJsonObject
filter.Initialize
Dim jsonOut As ChilkatJsonObject
jsonOut.Initialize
success = pdf.Watermark("detect", filter, jsonOut)
If success = False Then
    Log(pdf.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Log("found: " & jsonOut.BoolOf("found") & " count: " & jsonOut.IntOf("count"))

success = pdf.Watermark("list", filter, jsonOut)
If success = False Then
    Log(pdf.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim i As Int = 0
Dim count_i As Int = jsonOut.SizeOfArray("watermarks")
Do While i < count_i
    jsonOut.I = i
    Log("id: " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].id"))
    Log("   source:    " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].source"))
    Log("   approach:  " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].approach"))
    Log("   type:      " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].type"))
    Log("   text:      " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].text"))
    Log("   pages:     " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].pages"))
    Log("   zOrder:    " & jsonOut.StringOf("watermarks[i].zOrder"))
    Log("   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.
Dim bySource As ChilkatJsonObject
bySource.Initialize
bySource.UpdateString("source", "acrobat")
success = pdf.Watermark("detect", bySource, jsonOut)
If success = False Then
    Log(pdf.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Log("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