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Tile a Watermark Across a PDF Page

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Demonstrates a tiled watermark, which repeats the stamp over the whole page instead of placing it once. Tiling overrides position.align; tile.spacingX and spacingY set the gaps, and tile.stagger offsets alternate rows by half a tile so the pattern does not line up in columns. A faint tiled stamp carrying the name or address is the usual way to mark a document so that a leaked copy can be traced back, and zOrder back keeps it behind the text where it does not hinder reading.

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @sTmp1 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @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 long_report.pdf

    DECLARE @pdf int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Pdf', @pdf OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @pdf, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/pdf/long_report.pdf'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @pdf, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @pdf
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @json int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.JsonObject', @json OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'type', 'text'

    --  {date:FORMAT} is replaced per page when the watermark is added.  The other placeholders are
    --  {page}, {pages} and {filename}; {{ gives a literal brace.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'text', 'jdoe@example.com  {date:yyyy-MM-dd}'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'id', 'trace'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'zOrder', 'back'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateNumber', @success OUT, 'font.size', '14'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateNumber', @success OUT, 'opacity', '0.15'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateNumber', @success OUT, 'rotation', '30'

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBool', @success OUT, 'tile.enabled', 1
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateNumber', @success OUT, 'tile.spacingX', '60'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateNumber', @success OUT, 'tile.spacingY', '80'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'UpdateBool', @success OUT, 'tile.stagger', 1

    DECLARE @jsonOut int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.JsonObject', @jsonOut OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @pdf, 'Watermark', @success OUT, 'add', @json, @jsonOut
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @pdf, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @pdf
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonOut
        RETURN
      END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @jsonOut, 'StringOf', @sTmp0 OUT, 'id'

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @jsonOut, 'StringOf', @sTmp1 OUT, 'pages'
    PRINT 'id: ' + @sTmp0 + ' pages: ' + @sTmp1

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @pdf, 'WriteFile', @success OUT, 'qa_output/report_traced.pdf'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @pdf, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @pdf
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonOut
        RETURN
      END

    --  Sample output:

    --  id: trace pages: 1-3

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @pdf
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonOut


END
GO