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

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.

Art text

Shows different types of art texts.

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.

Create Business Card

Creates business card in PDF format.

Create Multipage PDF

Creates multipage PDF with personalized wedding invitations.

Double Outline

Demonstrates how to draw a text with double outline.

Draw Lists

Draws formatted text with ordered and unordered lists.

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.

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.