Adding Image watermark to Pdf while Creating it using iTextSharp

Question

Wonder if this possible. Saw many posts on adding watermark after the pdf is created and saved in disk. But during creation of document how do i add a image watermark. I kno

Answer 1

This is essentially identical to adding a header or footer.

You need to create a class that implements PdfPageEvent, and in the OnPageEnd, grab the page's PdfContentByte, and draw your image there. Use an absolute position.

Note: You probably want to derive from PdfPageEventHelper, it has empty implementations of all the page events, so you just need to write the method you actually care about.

Note: Unless your image is mostly transparent, drawing it on top of your page will cover up Many Things. IIRC ("If I Recall Correctly"), PNG and GIF files added by iText will automatically be properly masked, allowing things under them to show through.

If you want to add an opaque image underneath everything, you should override OnStartPage() instead.

This is Java, but converting it is mostly a matter of capitalizing method names and swapping get/set calls for property access.

Image watermarkImage = new Image(imgPath);
watermarkImage.setAbsolutePosition(x, y);

writer.setPageEvent( new MyPageEvent(watermarkImage) );


public MyPageEvent extends PdfPageEventHelper {
  private Image waterMark;
  public MyPageEvent(Image img) {
    waterMark = img;
  }
  public void OnEndPage/*OnStartPage*/(PdfWriter writer, Document doc) {
    PdfContentByte content = writer.getContent();
    content.addImage( waterMark );
  }
}