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Visual FoxPro Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

Add a CONFIDENTIAL Watermark to Every Page of a PDF

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Demonstrates the simplest watermark: a line of text across every page. "rotation" set to diagonal runs the text from the bottom-left corner to the top-right, computed for each page size, and "scale" with fit page sizes it to fill 80 percent of the page. The watermark is stored as a marked artifact by default, which means viewers show it, text extraction leaves it out, and it can be found and removed again later. Nothing is written until WriteFile is called.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loPdf
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL loJsonOut

lnSuccess = 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 long_report.pdf

loPdf = CreateObject('Chilkat.Pdf')
lnSuccess = loPdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/long_report.pdf")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loPdf.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loPdf
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJson.UpdateString("type","text")
loJson.UpdateString("text","CONFIDENTIAL")

*  An id of your own choosing, so that the watermark can be found and removed later.  One is
*  generated when you do not give one.
loJson.UpdateString("id","confidential")

loJson.UpdateString("color","#C00000")
loJson.UpdateNumber("opacity","0.25")
loJson.UpdateString("rotation","diagonal")
loJson.UpdateString("scale.fit","page")
loJson.UpdateNumber("scale.fitPercent","80")

loJsonOut = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
lnSuccess = loPdf.Watermark("add",loJson,loJsonOut)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loPdf.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loPdf
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loJsonOut
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  The id, and the pages it was stamped on.  "pages" defaults to all.
? "id: " + loJsonOut.StringOf("id")
? "pages: " + loJsonOut.StringOf("pages")

lnSuccess = loPdf.WriteFile("qa_output/report_confidential.pdf")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loPdf.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loPdf
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loJsonOut
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Sample output:

*  id: confidential
*  pages: 1-3

RELEASE loPdf
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loJsonOut