PDFsharp & MigraDoc Forum

Hello, I am not a fan of creating new topics, but even after 3 hours of searching, I am not able to find a solution for my problem.

I have an existing PDF which I want to use as a background image for new PDF I am creating. I have to create new PDF using migradoc document because of tables I need to create. So the question is. How can I convert an existing PDF page to image and then set it as background, so I will be able to create new migradoc document over it and insert some data.

Thanks everybody for your answers.

No conversion needed, you can use pages from PDF files like you use images. With MigraDoc, just give the PDF file where you'd use BMP or JPG (add the page number like in "foo.pdf#17" to get page 17, not the first page).

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team

So you mean like this? section.AddImage(template.pdf)? This just returns me "Image not found" error. And I'm not sure if I will be able to draw something over this image. What I need is to open PDF and create some migradoc section in it and then render result with my changes.

Give the path of the PDF file to AddImage.
MigraDoc can create new PDF files, but it cannot add content to existing PDF files.

So either go the MigraDoc way and use AddImage to use pages from other PDF files as background images - or use the technique described in the Mix MigraDoc and PDFsharp sample.

Using AddImage is the easier way.
Here is sample code that places a textframe (same properties work for images):
viewtopic.php?p=3133#p3133

AddImage returns the image that was added to the document. Make sure to set "WrapFormat.Style = WrapStyle.Through;" for that image. Set "RelativeVertical = RelativeVertical.Page;" and don't use "Left = ShapePosition.Right;" from the sample.

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team