C# Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

Watermark Only Some of a PDF's Pages

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Demonstrates choosing the pages to stamp. "pages" takes all (the default), first, last, odd, even, or a list of 1-based pages and ranges such as 1,3,5-9,12- where a trailing dash means "to the end". "excludePages" takes the same syntax and is applied afterwards, which is how you say "every page except the cover". The result reports the pages the watermark actually landed on. C#

bool 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

Chilkat.Pdf pdf = new Chilkat.Pdf();
success = pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/four_pages.pdf");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(pdf.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("pages in the document: " + Convert.ToString(pdf.NumPages));

Chilkat.JsonObject json = new Chilkat.JsonObject();
Chilkat.JsonObject jsonOut = new Chilkat.JsonObject();
json.UpdateString("type","text");
json.UpdateString("text","INTERNAL");
json.UpdateString("id","internal");

//  Every page except the first.
json.UpdateString("pages","all");
json.UpdateString("excludePages","1");
success = pdf.Watermark("add",json,jsonOut);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(pdf.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("every page but the cover: " + jsonOut.StringOf("pages"));

//  A list of pages and ranges, on a second copy of the document.
Chilkat.Pdf pdf2 = new Chilkat.Pdf();
success = pdf2.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/four_pages.pdf");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(pdf2.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Chilkat.JsonObject json2 = new Chilkat.JsonObject();
json2.UpdateString("type","text");
json2.UpdateString("text","APPENDIX");
json2.UpdateString("id","appendix");
json2.UpdateString("pages","2,4-");
success = pdf2.Watermark("add",json2,jsonOut);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(pdf2.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("page 2 and 4 onwards: " + jsonOut.StringOf("pages"));

success = pdf.WriteFile("qa_output/four_pages_internal.pdf");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(pdf.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Sample output:

//  pages in the document: 4
//  every page but the cover: 2-4
//  page 2 and 4 onwards: 2,4