Working with Watermark
15 Oct 20202 minutes to read
Watermarks are text or pictures that appear behind the document text. You can access the watermark in the document by using the Watermark property of WordDocument class.
There are two types of watermarks: Text and Picture.
Text watermark
You can add or modify text watermark in the Word document. The TextWatermark class represents the text watermark in the Word document.
The following code example shows how to add a text watermark to the Word document.
//Create a new Word document.
WordDocument document = new WordDocument();
//Add a section and a paragraph in the document.
document.ensureMinimal();
IWParagraph paragraph = document.getLastParagraph();
paragraph.appendText("AdventureWorks Cycles, the fictitious company on which the AdventureWorks sample databases are based, is a large, multinational manufacturing company.");
//Create a new text watermark.
TextWatermark textWatermark = new TextWatermark("TextWatermark", "", 250, 100);
//Set the created watermark to the document.
document.setWatermark(textWatermark);
//Set the text watermark font size.
textWatermark.setSize(72);
//Set the text watermark layout to horizontal.
textWatermark.setLayout(WatermarkLayout.Horizontal);
textWatermark.setSemitransparent(false);
//Set the text watermark text color.
textWatermark.setColor(ColorSupport.getBlack());
//Save the Word document.
document.save("Result_watermark1.docx", FormatType.Docx);
//Closes the document.
document.close();Picture Watermark
You can add or modify the picture watermark in the Word document. The PictureWatermark class represents the picture watermark in the Word document.
The following code example shows how to add a picture watermark to the Word document.
//Create a new Word document.
WordDocument document = new WordDocument();
//Add a section and a paragraph in the document.
document.ensureMinimal();
IWParagraph paragraph = document.getLastParagraph();
paragraph.appendText("AdventureWorks Cycles, the fictitious company on which the AdventureWorks sample databases are based, is a large, multinational manufacturing company.");
//Create a new picture watermark.
PictureWatermark picWatermark = new PictureWatermark();
//Set the scaling to picture.
picWatermark.setScaling(120f);
picWatermark.setWashout(true);
//Set the picture watermark to document.
document.setWatermark(picWatermark);
//Set the image to the picture watermark.
Path path = Paths.get("David.png");
byte[] data = Files.readAllBytes(path);
picWatermark.loadPicture(data);
//Save and close the document.
document.save("PictureWatermark.docx", FormatType.Docx);
document.close();