Adding a watermark to a page

Watermarks can be used in a variety of ways to make reports stand out. This recipe will show you how to add a "draft" watermark to the background of a report.

Getting ready

You must have PDFCreator installed on your machine. This recipe was tested with version 0.9.8 and 0.9.9 and is not guaranteed to work with future or previous releases of PDFCreator. PDFCreator requires the .NET Framework 1.1 to install the dll files used with this example.

You must also have Visual Studio 2005 or later installed on your machine in order to write the C# code for this recipe.

You should understand the Printing reports to PDF recipe from Chapter 10, Integration. This recipe builds on that one and the details will not be explained here. The codeunit for printing to PDF from the Integration chapter is included in this chapter as well.

How to do it...

1. Open a new text file.

2. Add the following code:

   Option Explicit
   Dim Arguments
   Dim pdfforge
   Dim tools
   Dim fso
   Dim FilePath
   Dim ImagePath
   Dim...