The HiQPdf software is able to load external PDF documents and to add new objects over the existing content.
In this demo you can learn how to load a PDF document from a file and layout various PDF objects on top of the existing content.
The demo will make two changes to the PDF document to edit: will create an orange border for each PDF page of the loaded document and will create a canvas whose content is automatically repeated on each PDF page. The content from a HTML document will be laid out in the repeated canvas.
The HTML document does not have a background which makes visible the existing content from PDF and even more, the PNG image used in HTML is also transparent to create a very special effect.
private void buttonEditPdf_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e) { // the path PDF document to edit string pdfDocumentToEdit = Application.StartupPath + @"\DemoFiles\Pdf\WikiPdf.pdf"; // load the PDF document to edit PdfDocument document = PdfDocument.FromFile(pdfDocumentToEdit); #region Add an orange border to each page of the loaded PDF document // add an orange border to each PDF page in the loaded PDF document foreach (PdfPage pdfPage in document.Pages) { float crtPdfPageWidth = pdfPage.Size.Width; float crtPdfPageHeight = pdfPage.Size.Height; // create a PdfRectangle object PdfRectangle pdfRectangle = new PdfRectangle(2, 2, crtPdfPageWidth - 4, crtPdfPageHeight - 4); pdfRectangle.LineStyle.LineWidth = 2; pdfRectangle.ForeColor = Color.OrangeRed; // layout the rectangle in PDF page pdfPage.Layout(pdfRectangle); } #endregion Add an orange border to each page of the loaded PDF document #region Layout HTML in a canvas to be repeated on each page of the loaded PDF document PdfPage pdfPage1 = document.Pages[0]; float pdfPageWidth = pdfPage1.Size.Width; float pdfPageHeight = pdfPage1.Size.Height; // the width of the HTML logo in pixels int htmlLogoWidthPx = 400; // the width of the HTML logo in points float htmlLogoWidthPt = PdfDpiTransform.FromPixelsToPoints(htmlLogoWidthPx); float htmlLogoHeightPt = 100; // create a canvas to be repeated in the center of each PDF page // the canvas is a PDF container that can contain PDF objects ( HTML, text, images, etc ) PdfRepeatCanvas repeatedCanvas = document.CreateRepeatedCanvas(new RectangleF((pdfPageWidth - htmlLogoWidthPt) / 2, (pdfPageHeight - htmlLogoHeightPt) / 2, htmlLogoWidthPt, htmlLogoHeightPt)); // the HTML file giving the content to be placed in the repeated canvas string htmlFile = Application.StartupPath + @"\DemoFiles\Html\Logo.Html"; // the HTML object to be laid out in repeated canvas PdfHtml htmlLogo = new PdfHtml(0, 0, repeatedCanvas.Width, repeatedCanvas.Height, htmlFile); // the browser width when rendering the HTML htmlLogo.BrowserWidth = htmlLogoWidthPx; // the HTML content will fit the destination hight which is the same with repeated canvas height htmlLogo.FitDestHeight = true; // layout the HTML object in the repeated canvas PdfLayoutInfo htmlLogLayoutInfo = repeatedCanvas.Layout(htmlLogo); #endregion Layout HTML in a canvas to be repeated on each page of the loaded PDF document Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor; string pdfFile = Application.StartupPath + @"\DemoOutput\EditPdf.pdf"; try { document.WriteToFile(pdfFile); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(String.Format("Cannot create the PDF document. {0}", ex.Message)); return; } finally { document.Close(); Cursor = Cursors.Arrow; } // open the created PDF document try { System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(pdfFile); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(String.Format("The PDF document was created but cannot open '{0}'. {1}", pdfFile, ex.Message)); } }