Question

I have a watermark that I would like to put into my pdf. The watermark is a .bmp image, and is 2290 x 3026. I am having a lot of trouble trying to resize this picture to fit the page, does anyone have any suggestions?

Document document = new Document(); 
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("result.pdf")); 
document.open(); 
document.add(new Paragraph("hello")); 
document.close(); 
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("result.pdf"); 
int number_of_pages = reader.getNumberOfPages(); 
PdfStamper pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream("result_watermark.pdf")); 
// Get the PdfContentByte type by pdfStamper. 
Image watermark_image = Image.getInstance("abstract(0307).bmp"); 
int i = 0; 
watermark_image.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
watermark_image.scaleToFit(826, 1100);
System.out.println(watermark_image.getScaledWidth());
System.out.println(watermark_image.getScaledHeight()); 
PdfContentByte add_watermark; 
while (i < number_of_pages) { 
    i++; 
    add_watermark = pdfStamper.getUnderContent(i); 
    add_watermark.addImage(watermark_image); 
} 
pdfStamper.close();

Here is the output for the getScaled() methods.

826.0 - Width
1091.4742 - Height

I would share the picture of the pdf with you guys but unfortunately I can’t.

Should I try using a .jpg instead? I don’t really know how well iText handles different image extensions.

Answer 1

You could use another approach : resize the image “manually” (i.e. through an image processing software) instead of programmatically through iText.

Since the final dimension seems hardcoded, you could use an already resized image and save yourself some processing time every time you watermark PDF documents.