When working with contracts, reports, notices, certificates, or other PDF files, the document layout often matters just as much as the content. For example, you may want to add a soft background color to a report, apply a company letterhead to a contract, or place a fixed template image behind an official document. Doing this manually is fine for one or two files, but it quickly becomes inefficient when the files need to be processed in batches. A better approach is to handle the PDF background directly in Java code. This article shows two common ways to change the background of a PDF file in Java: adding a background color and setting a background image. 1. Add the Java PDF Library In this example, we will use Spire.PDF for Java to load an existing PDF document, update the background of its pages, and save the result as a new PDF file. If your project uses Maven, add the Spire.PDF dependency to your pom.xml file: <repositories> <repository> < id > ...
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