Adding text watermark is very slow in .NET

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Hi, I’m evaluating GroupDocs.Watermark .NET APIs for my company,
I noticed that adding watermarks to docx, xlsx, pptx files are very slow,
it takes about 20 seconds to add watermarks to a 20 pages 1.02MB pptx file.

I did a simple profile, it seems GroupDocs.Watermark.Watermarker.ctor() is the bottleneck:
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My question:

  1. Is this normal?
  2. Is this because I’m using a trial version of the GroupDocs.Watermark product?
  3. What can I do to improve the performance of adding watermarks?
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@wangfu91

Please share following details and we’ll investigate this issue:

  • API version (e.g. 19.10, 20.4) that you’re evaluating
  • Sample code that you’re using to add watermark
  • Sample PPTX file
3

Thanks for the reply,

It seems to be Windows Defender’s fault, after disable Defender’s real-time scan,
the elapsed time dropped to 4.7 seconds.

  • API version: GroupDocs.Watermark for NET 20.7.0
  • Sample code:
class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                var file = @"Microsoft Sway.pptx";
                var fileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file);
                var ext = Path.GetExtension(file);

                var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();

                using (Watermarker watermarker = new Watermarker(file))
                {
                    TextWatermark watermark = new TextWatermark("Confidential", new Font("Arial", 24));
                    watermark.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
                    watermark.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center;
                    watermark.RotateAngle = -45;
                    watermark.SizingType = SizingType.ScaleToParentDimensions;
                    watermark.ScaleFactor = 1;
                    watermark.Opacity = 0.4;
                    watermarker.Add(watermark);
                    watermarker.Save($"{fileName}-Watermarked{ext}");
                }

                var elapsed = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
                sw.Stop();
                Console.WriteLine($"Takes {elapsed} ms");
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                throw;
            }
        }
    }
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@wangfu91

We enabled Windows defender and the antivirus. It took 4-5 seconds. Please have a look at this screenshot.PNG (68.5 KB).

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After more tests, this seems only happen on my development machine, and only on the first run.
I don’t think it is GroupDocs 's issue, closing it, thanks for the reply.

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@wangfu91

You’re welcome.