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Adobe Resources Advanced Art Text Background Removal Bitmap BMP Branched Pipeline Channels Clipping Paths Codecs Color Adjustment Color Conversion Color Management Color Profile Compression Crop Drawing EPS EXIF Extra Channels Filesystem Font Format Conversion Formatted Text GIF Gradient Graphics Container Green Screen Image Validation Indexed format Interoperability IPTC JPG Lossless JPEG Metadata Modify Container Multiple frames Path PDF Personalization Pipeline Pixel Access PNG PSD PSD Processor Rasterization RAW Read Resize Rotate Spot Color Stream SVG Text Text Layout TGA Thumbnail TIFF Transform Transparentize VDP Vignette Watermark WEBP WPF Write XMP

Add a tiled watermark to PDF pages

This sample shows how to add a semi-transparent, rotated text watermark to every page of an existing PDF file. It demonstrates copying each source page's content into a new PDF with PdfReader, PdfWriter, and GraphicsContainer, then using TilingBrush to repeat rotated PlainText across the page as a watermark pattern.

Add Alpha Channel

Generates an elliptical alpha channel and applies it to the source image.

Add Alpha Channel (Memory Friendly)

Generates an elliptical alpha channel and applies it to the source image using memory-friendly Pipeline API.

Art text

Shows different types of art texts.

Artistic Frame

Draws artistic frame.

Autofit

Demonstrates how to fit the largest possible text inside a PathBoundedText area.

Bounded Text

Demonstrates how to use bounded text.

Colored Text

Renders formatted, multi-colored text onto a bitmap.

Colored Watermark

Demonstrates how to apply a colored watermark to an image using a tiling brush with text rendering.

Combine shapes with boolean path operations

This sample shows how to build new shapes from existing ones with the boolean operations of the Path class: Path.Union, Path.Intersect, Path.Subtract, and Path.Xor. These static methods leave their arguments unchanged and return a new path, so the same two source shapes can be combined in several ways. The result is real vector geometry, so it can be filled, stroked, written to PDF, or used as a clipping path.

Convert a dashed stroke into filled shapes

This sample shows how to turn the stroke of a path into an outline that can be filled, measured, or combined with other shapes, like "Outline Stroke" in vector editors. Path.Widen takes everything from a Pen: its width, line caps, joins, and dash pattern, so every dash of a dashed line becomes a closed shape of its own. This is what cutting, engraving, and embroidery software needs, as it follows outlines and knows nothing about strokes. Path.GetArea then gives the area the stroke covers.

Convert Clipping Path To Mask

Converts clipping path to alpha channel mask.

Convert Clipping Path To TGA

Reads image in JPEG format, converts clipping path to alpha channel and saves to TARGA 32 format.

Create a die-cut outline around artwork

This sample shows how to build the cut line of a sticker from the transparency of its artwork and write it to a print-ready PDF. Path.GetContour traces the outline of the opaque part of the image with sub-pixel accuracy, Path.Inflate grows it by the bleed and closes the narrow gaps between separate parts, Path.GetOuterContours drops the holes the cutter should not follow, and Path.FitCurves turns the traced polyline into smooth Bezier curves. The outline is stroked with a "CutContour" spot colour, the name cutting plotters and RIPs look for.

Create a PDF/X-4 file with CMYK output intent

This sample shows how to create a PDF/X-4 document with a CMYK output intent using GraphicsMill. It demonstrates how to load a CMYK print profile, configure an OutputIntent, initialize a PdfWriter with that intent, convert an RGB image to CMYK using color management, and draw it onto a PDF page together with a solid CMYK-filled shape.

Create Business Card

Creates business card in PDF format.

Create Clipping Path

Demonstrates how to create Adobe resource block with path from SVG file and save it to JPEG format.

Create Multipage PDF

Creates multipage PDF with personalized wedding invitations.

Create Vignette

Creates a vignette with a specified color.

Double Outline

Demonstrates how to draw a text with double outline.

Double Path Text

Demonstrates how to use double path text.

Draw Lists

Draws formatted text with ordered and unordered lists.

Draw On PDF With Spot Color

Fills a rectangle with a PANTONE color.

Draw Paragraphs

Draws formatted text with several paragraphs.

Draw Path

Draws path on Graphics.

Draw Spot On CMYK

Draws a text and an image on the spot channel, using the existing CMYK image as a background.

Draw text watermark on thumbnail image

This sample shows how to create a thumbnail image and draw a semi-transparent text watermark on top of it using the GraphicsMill transforms and advanced drawing APIs. It demonstrates how to resize the source image with the Resize transform, register a custom font, and render text with Drawer and PlainText. You can read more information about drawing in the documentation.

Draw Using Advanced Graphics

Performs drawing with AdvancedDrawing in the Pipeline API.

Draw With Clipping Path

Draws an image onto a Graphics object using a clipping path.

Fade and shape images with soft masks

This sample shows how to make parts of an item gradually transparent with a soft mask, the PDF way of masking that keeps both the item and the mask vector. A soft mask is a GraphicsContainer assigned to an item through its SoftMask property. With SoftMaskMethod.Luminosity the brightness of the mask sets the opacity: here a white-to-black gradient fades a photo out to the right. With SoftMaskMethod.Alpha only the transparency of the mask counts and its colours are ignored: here the alpha channel of a PNG gives a second photo the shape of a postage stamp.

Font API

Draws text without text objects, only with getting char info + simple metrics.

Font Fallback

Draws multilanguage text with font fallback support.

Font Metrics

Adds font to FontRegistry from file and shows its metrics.

Gradient Color

Demonstrates drawing text with a gradient fill.

Lay out paragraphs, lists, and tab-aligned columns in a PDF

This sample shows how to lay out a page of formatted text directly in a PDF using BoundedText's XML-based markup: regular paragraphs with first-line indentation and paragraph spacing, a bulleted list with custom line leading, and a two-column schedule where each session's title flows from the left and its time is pushed to a right-aligned tab stop by a dot leader, the classic layout of a printed program or table of contents.

Load fonts on demand with the FontMissing event

This sample shows how to start with an empty font registry and add only the fonts a design actually uses, at the moment it asks for them. When a font is requested by a PostScript name that is not registered, CustomFontRegistry raises the FontMissing event; the handler looks the name up in the application's own font catalog and adds the file with CustomFontRegistry.Add, and the request then succeeds. A server with a large font library no longer has to parse every font at startup.

Map template font names with aliases and remove fonts

This sample shows how to keep a font registry in step with a font library that changes while the application runs. CustomFontRegistry.Add reports for every face it reads a FontAddResult with the PostScript name and a status, for example AlreadyPresent when the same file is added twice. CustomFontRegistry.AddFontAlias attaches extra names to a registered font, so templates can refer to fonts by role ("Brand-Heading") rather than by file. CustomFontRegistry.Remove unregisters a font that was deleted from the library without rebuilding the registry, and PostscriptNameCollisionPolicy decides whether a new file with an already registered PostScript name replaces the old one.