This section is designed to provide developers a solution to set graphic overlay in PDF file with C#, VB.NET via a .NET PDF library Spire.PDF for .NET.
Spire.PDF for .NET enables you to set graphic overlay for PDF pages in an easy way. In order to see content in both PDF files, we can set the transparency for the overlay. Now, let us see the code detail step by step.
First, we need to load two PDF documents from system which are used for creating overlay PDF document. Then, we can create the page template as one page of the first PDF file. In my project, I set the first page in the first PDF document as the template. Finally draw this template page into every page of the second PDF file by this method: PdfPageBase.Canvas.DrawTemplate(PdfTemplate template, PointF location) and set the transparency for the page: PdfPageBase.Canvas.SetTransparency(float alphaPen, float alphaBrush, PdfBlendMode blendMode).
Here you can know more about Spire.PDF for .NET. Spire.PDF for .NET is a PDF component that is applied to manipulate PDF files in .NET applications. You can download Spire.PDF for .NET. After installing it on system, you can start your project by C# or VB.NET in either Console Application or Windows Forms Application. Since we will use Spire.PDF, you need add Spire.Pdf.dll in the Bin folder, the default path is: "..\Spire.Pdf\Bin\NET4.0\Spire.Pdf.dll". Below is the whole code of the task:
using System.Drawing;
using Spire.Pdf;
using Spire.Pdf.Graphics;
namespace pdf_graphic_overlay
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//load two documents
PdfDocument doc1 = new PdfDocument();
doc1.LoadFromFile(@"..\ Sample1.pdf");
PdfDocument doc2 = new PdfDocument();
doc2.LoadFromFile(@"..\Sample3.pdf");
//Create page template
PdfTemplate template = doc1.Pages[0].CreateTemplate();
//set PDF overlay effect and set transparency mode
foreach (PdfPageBase page in doc2.Pages)
{
//set transparency
page.Canvas.SetTransparency(0.25f, 0.25f, PdfBlendMode.Overlay);
//add the first page of doc1 to every page of doc2
page.Canvas.DrawTemplate(template, PointF.Empty);
}
//Save pdf file.
doc2.SaveToFile("Overlay.pdf");
doc1.Close();
doc2.Close();
//Launching the Pdf file.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Overlay.pdf");
}
}
}
Imports System.Drawing
Imports Spire.Pdf
Imports Spire.Pdf.Graphics
Namespace pdf_graphic_overlay
Class Program
Private Shared Sub Main(args As String())
'load two documents
Dim doc1 As New PdfDocument()
doc1.LoadFromFile("..\Sample1.pdf")
Dim doc2 As New PdfDocument()
doc2.LoadFromFile("..\Sample3.pdf")
'Create page template
Dim template As PdfTemplate = doc1.Pages(0).CreateTemplate()
'set PDF overlay effect and set transparency mode
For Each page As PdfPageBase In doc2.Pages
'set transparency
page.Canvas.SetTransparency(0.25F, 0.25F, PdfBlendMode.Overlay)
'add the first page of doc1 to every page of doc2
page.Canvas.DrawTemplate(template, PointF.Empty)
Next
'Save pdf file.
doc2.SaveToFile("Overlay.pdf")
doc1.Close()
doc2.Close()
'Launching the Pdf file.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Overlay.pdf")
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace
After executing above code, we can get the output file as below:
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Spire.PDF for .NET is a PDF application which is designed to perform processing tasks on managing PDF files. It is completely written in C# but also support VB.NET.
