--- title: "Drawing" canonical: https://www.graphicsmill.com/samples/tags/drawing product: "Graphics Mill" --- # Drawing Drawing vector shapes and text - [Browse all samples]() ## Samples - [Add a tiled watermark to PDF pages](): Adds a semi-transparent, rotated tiled text watermark to every page of a PDF file. - [Add Alpha Channel](): Adds an elliptical alpha channel to an image. - [Add Alpha Channel (Memory Friendly)](): Adds an elliptical alpha channel using a memory-friendly pipeline. - [Art text](): Shows different types of art text effects using various styles. - [Artistic Frame](): Create an artistic photo frame composition with multiple images and effects. - [Autofit](): Fits the largest possible text inside a specified shape area. - [Bounded Text](): Draws text inside a specific rectangular area using bounded text. - [Colored Text](): Renders formatted, multi-colored text onto a bitmap image. - [Colored Watermark](): Applies a colored watermark to an image using a tiling brush and text rendering. - [Combine shapes with boolean path operations](): Combines a circle and a square with union, intersection, subtraction, and exclusive or. - [Convert a dashed stroke into filled shapes](): Converts a dashed stroke with round caps into closed outlines with Path.Widen and measures their area. - [Convert Clipping Path To Mask](): Converts a clipping path into an alpha channel mask for the image. - [Convert Clipping Path To TGA](): Converts a clipping path from a JPEG to an alpha channel and saves as TGA. - [Create a die-cut outline around artwork](): Traces the outline of a PNG with transparency, offsets and smooths it, and writes it as a spot-colour cut line to PDF. - [Create a PDF/X-4 file with CMYK output intent](): Creates a PDF/X-4 file with CMYK output intent and color-managed images. - [Create Business Card](): Creates a business card layout and saves it as a PDF file. - [Create Clipping Path](): Creates and embeds a clipping path from an SVG file into a JPEG image. - [Create Multipage PDF](): Generates personalized multipage PDF invitations with variable data. - [Create Vignette](): Creates a vignette effect with a specified color using advanced pipeline techniques. - [Double Outline](): Draws text with a double outline effect and saves it as an image. - [Double Path Text](): Draws text along two custom paths using double path text. - [Draw Lists](): Draws formatted text with various types of ordered and unordered lists. - [Draw On PDF With Spot Color](): Fills a rectangle with a PANTONE spot color in a PDF document. - [Draw Paragraphs](): Draws multiple formatted text paragraphs with custom styles. - [Draw Path](): Draw vector shapes and styled text using a custom path. - [Draw Spot On CMYK](): Draws text and an image on a spot channel over a CMYK background in a PDF. - [Draw text watermark on thumbnail image](): Creates a thumbnail and draws a semi-transparent text watermark using transforms and drawing APIs. - [Draw Using Advanced Graphics](): Draw a rectangle on an image using advanced graphics in the Pipeline API. - [Draw With Clipping Path](): Draw an image within an elliptical clipping path. - [Fade and shape images with soft masks](): Fades a photo with a gradient luminosity mask and cuts another to the shape of a PNG with an alpha mask, then writes them to PDF. - [Font API](): Renders text by drawing individual character outlines using a custom font. - [Font Fallback](): Draws multilanguage text with font fallback support for missing characters. - [Font Metrics](): Loads a custom font and displays its metrics and properties. - [Gradient Color](): Draws text with a gradient fill and saves it as an image. - [Lay out paragraphs, lists, and tab-aligned columns in a PDF](): Lays out paragraphs, a bulleted list, and a dot-leader tab-aligned schedule directly in a PDF. - [Load fonts on demand with the FontMissing event](): Adds fonts to a CustomFontRegistry only when text asks for them, using the FontMissing event. - [Map template font names with aliases and remove fonts](): Adds fonts and checks the add status, maps role names to fonts with aliases, and removes a font from a CustomFontRegistry. - [Matrix Transform](): Apply matrix transformations to graphics for drawing shapes and text. - [Overlay an Image onto Another Image](): Overlay a watermark image onto another image using advanced graphics. - [Path Bounded Text](): Draws text inside multiple bounding paths and wraps it around a custom path. - [Path Text](): Draws text along a custom path using a Bezier curve. - [PDF Layers](): Creates a PDF document with multiple visible and invisible layers. - [Plain Text](): Demonstrates rendering of plain horizontal and vertical text. - [Reflected Text](): Creates a mirrored text effect and saves the result as an image. - [Replace Process Color](): Converts a process color to a spot color and saves the result as a PDF. - [Save Spot Image To PDF](): Creates an image with a spot color and saves it to a PDF file. - [Show Custom Font Metrics](): Loads a custom font and visualizes its metrics and text layout. - [Subscript and Superscript](): Draws text with subscript and superscript formatting. - [Text Effects](): Applies shadow and glow effects to text rendering. - [Text Frames](): Renders text in multiple columns and along a curved path. - [TIFF Extra Channels To Spot Color Space](): Converts a TIFF with extra channels to a PDF using separation color space. - [Vertical Text](): Draws vertical text inside a shape and at a specific point on the canvas. - [Visualize Clipping Path](): Shows how to visualize and draw clipping paths on images for demonstration. - [Wrapping Paths](): Wraps text inside a rectangle, excluding regions defined by a wrapping path. - [Write Animated Gif](): Creates an animated GIF by generating frames with a moving green circle. - [Write Animated WebP](): Create a simple animated image in WebP format. - [Write raster and vector graphics to EPS](): Creates an EPS file with both a bitmap and vector graphics, including shapes and styled text. - [Write Raster And Vector Graphics To PDF](): Saves both raster and vector graphics to a PDF file with compression. - [Write Text To PDF](): Writes plain and round text as PDF text with embedded fonts.