Overlay image onto PDF using PDFSharp
This will help you:
PdfDocument document = pdf;
// Create a new page
PdfPage page = document.Pages[0];
page.Orientation = PageOrientation.Portrait;
XGraphics gfx = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page, XPageDirection.Downwards);
// Draw background
gfx.DrawImage(XImage.FromFile("pdf_overlay.png"), 0, 0);
Just add the path to the image you want, and specify the position of the image.
To roughly maintain the aspect ratio, I used @Kami's answer and "roughly" centered it. The assumption made is that the pdf width is 600 and pdf height is 800, we will make use of the middle 500 and 700 of the page only, leaving the 4 sides have at least 50 in length as margin.
public static void GeneratePdf(string outputPath, string inputPath)
{
PdfSharp.Pdf.PdfDocument document = new PdfSharp.Pdf.PdfDocument();
// Create an empty page or load existing
PdfPage page = document.AddPage();
// Get an XGraphics object for drawing
XGraphics gfx = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page);
DrawImage(gfx, inputPath);
// Save and start View
document.Save(outputPath);
Process.Start(outputPath);
}
public static void DrawImage(XGraphics gfx, string imagePath)
{
XImage image = XImage.FromFile(imagePath);
var imageHeight = image.PixelHeight;
var imageWidth = image.PixelWidth;
int height;
int width;
int x;
int y;
width = 500;
height = (int) Math.Ceiling((double) width * imageHeight / imageWidth);
x = 50;
y = (int) Math.Ceiling((800 - height) / 2.0);
if(height > 700)
{
height = 700;
width = (int) Math.Ceiling(imageWidth * (double) height / imageHeight);
y = 50;
x = (int) Math.Ceiling((600 - width) / 2.0);
}
gfx.DrawImage(image, x, y, width, height);
}
Try the following
private void GeneratePDF(string filename, string imageLoc)
{
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
// Create an empty page or load existing
PdfPage page = document.AddPage();
// Get an XGraphics object for drawing
XGraphics gfx = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page);
DrawImage(gfx, imageLoc, 50, 50, 250, 250);
// Save and start View
document.Save(filename);
Process.Start(filename);
}
void DrawImage(XGraphics gfx, string jpegSamplePath, int x, int y, int width, int height)
{
XImage image = XImage.FromFile(jpegSamplePath);
gfx.DrawImage(image, x, y, width, height);
}
This will generate a new PDF with the specified image near the top of the page. If you need to use an existing document change the PdfDocument
constructor to
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument(filename);
where filename
is the name of the file to load and change the PdfPage
line to
PdfPage page = document.Pages[pageNum];
where pageNum
is the number of the page on which you need to add the image.
After that, it just a matter of getting the positioning on the page by altering the parameters for DrawImage
to suit.
DrawImage(gfx, imageLoc, 50, 50, 250, 250);
Good luck!