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Topic: Re: Watermark (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Prepress and Print, Msg: 22214
From: LeonardR
Date: 6/14/2001 05:15 PM
At 03:31 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I'd like to be able to post pdf's of my company's
>journal articles to our website. We'd like them to be
>watermarked.
OK...
>Although we have StampPDF, it
>doesn't allow for a watermark that would be
>invisible on screen but that would appear when the
>pdf was printed.
That is correct, it doesn't.
>Is there some reasonably priced software out there
>that can do this?
No, there isn't ANY software that can do this - UNLESS you ALSO
want to include a custom Acrobat plug-in along with your files. The reason
is that the PDF file format doesn't permit "annotations" (which CAN be
hidden/shown) on the "lower layer" of a PDF (ie. as a watermark) - it only
permits for content, and content is static by default. You'd need a custom
plugin to enable the hidding/showing of the watermark.
Leonard
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Leonard Rosenthol
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Appligent, Inc. (formerly Digital Applications) (610) 284-4233 (fax)
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