Watermark text on multitiff image

[coloboxp]

Hi

I think I'm close but still I'm having troubles, couldn't figure it out already two days.

I'm taking a multitiff "A", and want to add a border in the top and watermark it with text, only on the first page, the rest should stay as is.

I did some tests and it works with single paged tiffs, or a multitiff is saved as single paged.

Please could someone help me out pointing where I am doing the mistake?, this is like the 20th iteration code:

The function takes the path to the tiff (with extension .TF, that's why I change the extension to .TIF later), and a string with the text to embed on the first page.

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       public void EmbedIdentificationToTiffHeader(string pathToTiff, string code)
        {
            using (GdPictureImaging image = new GdPictureImaging())
            {
                int imgIdSrc = image.CreateGdPictureImageFromFile(pathToTiff);
                int imgIdTgt = image.TiffCreateMultiPageFromGdPictureImage(imgIdSrc);

                int pages = image.TiffGetPageCount(imgIdSrc);

                for (int pageId = 1; pageId <= pages; pageId++)
                {
                    image.TiffSelectPage(imgIdSrc, pageId);
                    
                    if (image.GetStat() == GdPictureStatus.OK)
                    {
                        //if it is the first page
                        
                        if (pageId == 1)
                        {
                            image.TiffAddToMultiPageFile(imgIdTgt, imgIdSrc);

                            image.AddBorderTop(imgIdTgt, 50, Color.White);
                            image.DrawText(imgIdTgt, code, 20, 1, 16, FontStyle.FontStyleRegular, Color.Black, "Arial", false);

                            image.TiffSaveAsMultiPageFile(imgIdTgt, Path.ChangeExtension(pathToTiff, "TIF"), TiffCompression.TiffCompressionCCITT4);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            image.TiffAddToMultiPageFile(imgIdTgt, imgIdSrc);
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Logger.Write("Error: " + image.GetStat());
                        break;
                    }
                }

                image.ReleaseGdPictureImage(imgIdSrc);
                image.ReleaseGdPictureImage(imgIdTgt);

                image.Dispose();
            }
        }

Thank you in advance for your help.

[coloboxp]

I'll answer myself, and leave the solution in case someone else needs it.

While still looking for ideas, I've landed on this page (Draw page number on each page of a multipage tiff imagehttps://www.gdpicture.com/guides/gdpicture/Gd ... Image.html), translating the code from VB into C#, and adapting it into my needs worked perfectly.

• *The parameter pathToTiff has the full path to a multi tiff file, with extension TF.
  *The parameter code, has some text to watermark and embed a barcode 50 pixels to the right of the text, on the image.

The output is the TF file as TIF, with the watermarked text and barcode on top of it.

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public void EmbedIdentificationToTiffHeader(string pathToTiff, string code)
{
            
    using (GdPictureImaging gdp = new GdPictureImaging())
    {
        gdp.TiffOpenMultiPageForWrite(true);
        int imgSrcId = gdp.TiffCreateMultiPageFromFile(pathToTiff);
            
        int pages = gdp.TiffGetPageCount(imgSrcId);
                
        for (int pageId = 1; pageId <= pages; pageId++)
        {
            gdp.TiffSelectPage(imgSrcId, pageId);

            if (pageId == 1)
            {
                gdp.AddBorderTop(imgSrcId, 50, Color.White);
                var bcLen = gdp.GetTextWidth(imgSrcId, code, "Arial", 16, FontStyle.FontStyleRegular);
                gdp.DrawText(imgSrcId, code, 20, 1, 16, FontStyle.FontStyleRegular, Color.Black, "Arial", true);
                gdp.Barcode1DWrite(imgSrcId, Barcode1DWriterType.Barcode1DWriterCode93, code, (int)bcLen + 50, 5, 400, 40, Color.Black, BarcodeAlign.BarcodeAlignCenter, 0);
            }

            gdp.ConvertTo1Bpp(imgSrcId);
        }

        gdp.TiffSaveMultiPageToFile(imgSrcId, Path.ChangeExtension(pathToTiff, "TIF"), TiffCompression.TiffCompressionCCITT4);
        gdp.ReleaseGdPictureImage(imgSrcId);
    }
}

Cheers

[Gabriela]

Hello,

Thank you for posting your solution. We improve our tools and related documentation on a regular basis to make sure our examples are helpful. Your feedback is very appreciated here.

Please find here other examples of how to use multipage TIFF files:
https://www.gdpicture.com/guides/gdpicture/web ... files.html
https://www.gdpicture.com/guides/gdpicture/web ... 0file.html