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PageWatermark.ImageViewMode Property

Gets or sets the mode in which a picture PageWatermark is displayed.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraPrinting.Drawing

Assembly: DevExpress.Printing.v24.1.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Printing.Core

Declaration

[XtraSerializableProperty]
public ImageViewMode ImageViewMode { get; set; }

Property Value

Type Description
ImageViewMode

An ImageViewMode enumeration value specifying how the picture should be displayed.

Available values:

Name Description
Clip

The image is placed in the upper-left corner of the image control. The image is clipped if it’s larger than the image control which contains it.

Stretch

The image within the image control is stretched or shrunk, as appropriate, to fit the size of the image control.

Zoom

The image is sized proportionally (without clipping), so that it best fits the image control. If the height and width ratio of the image control is the same as the image’s ratio it will be resized to exactly fit into the image control. Otherwise, the closest fitting side (height or width) of the image will be sized to the control. The other side (height or width) of the image will be sized proportionally (leaving empty space).

Remarks

This member is in effect only for picture watermarks.

Example

This example demonstrates how to add a watermark to a printing system document. The SetTextWatermark method demonstrates the properties that are used to specify settings when a text watermark is added to a document, while the SetPictureWatermark method demonstrates the properties required to set a picture as a document’s watermark.

using System.Drawing;
using DevExpress.XtraPrinting;
using DevExpress.XtraPrinting.Drawing;
using DevExpress.Drawing;
// ...

public void SetTextWatermark(PrintingSystem ps){
   // Create the text watermark.
   Watermark textWatermark = new Watermark();

   // Set watermark options.
   textWatermark.Text = "CUSTOM WATERMARK TEXT";
   textWatermark.TextDirection = DirectionMode.ForwardDiagonal;
   textWatermark.Font = new DXFont(textWatermark.Font.FontFamily, 40);
   textWatermark.ForeColor = Color.DodgerBlue;
   textWatermark.TextTransparency = 150;
   textWatermark.TextPosition = WatermarkPosition.InFront;
   textWatermark.PageRange = "1,3-5";

   // Add the watermark to the collection.
   ps.Watermarks.Add(textWatermark);
}

public void SetPictureWatermark(PrintingSystem ps){
   // Create the picture watermark.
   Watermark pictureWatermark = new Watermark();

   // Set watermark options.
   pictureWatermark.Image = Bitmap.FromFile("watermark.gif");
   pictureWatermark.ImageAlign = ContentAlignment.TopCenter;
   pictureWatermark.ImageTiling = false;
   pictureWatermark.ImageViewMode = ImageViewMode.Stretch;
   pictureWatermark.ImageTransparency = 150;
   pictureWatermark.ImagePosition = WatermarkPosition.Behind;
   pictureWatermark.PageRange = "2,4";

   // Add the watermark to the collection.
   ps.Watermarks.Add(pictureWatermark);
}
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