how to add text in pdf programatically ?

i have writter a code to export pdf from a gridview and its working fine i had total 39 columns in gridview in that i needed few columns so i hided rest of the unwanted columns from the grid.

its exporting pdf but i wanted to add some text in that pdf but i dont knw how to below is my code.

i want to add some text as disclaimer fixed text.

public void exportPDFfile()
{
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=ForwardingLetter.pdf");
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
//hide the link button column
gridallemploye.Columns[0].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[2].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[3].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[4].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[5].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[6].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[7].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[8].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[9].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[11].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[12].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[13].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[14].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[15].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[16].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[17].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[18].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[19].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[20].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[21].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[22].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[23].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[24].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[25].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[26].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[27].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[28].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[29].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[30].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[31].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[32].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[33].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[34].Visible = false;
gridallemploye.Columns[38].Visible = false;
//Outputs server control content to a provided System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
gridallemploye.RenderControl(hw);
//load the html content to the string reader
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());
//HTMLDocument
//Document(Rectangle pageSize, float marginLeft, float marginRight, float marginTop, float marginBottom)
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 10f, 0f);
//iText class that allows you to convert HTML to PDF
HTMLWorker htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(document);
//When this PdfWriter is added to a certain PdfDocument,
//the PDF representation of every Element added to this Document will be written to the outputstream.
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, Response.OutputStream);
//open the document
document.Open();
htmlWorker.Parse(sr);
//close the document stream
document.Close();
//write the content to the response stream
Response.Write(document);
Response.End();
}

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Mageshwaran R6y ago
Hi,
please refer this link:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3992617/itextsharp-insert-text-to-an-existing-pdf
Leon D7y ago
Hi Subin,

Check the below link:

https://www.e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Spire.PDF/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide/How-to-Draw-Text-in-PDF-with-Different-Styles.html