Creating a watermark

You can create a watermark to display text or an image across your output.

Before you begin

Create a master page and drag it into an element.

About this task

Note: Watermarks display on every page by default when they are configured. The Same as previous property does not affect the display of watermarks.

Procedure

  1. In the Outline view, select the master page.
  2. In the Properties view, select the Watermark tab.
  3. Choose to use an image or text for the watermark.
    • To create an image watermark:
      1. For the Image property, enter the path to the image.
      2. After you select an image, you are prompted to embed the image in the template.
        • If you click Yes, the image is stored in the template. Document generations do not reference the source location of the image to generate properly.
        • If you click No, a path to the image is stored in the template. Document generations must have access to the source location of the image to generate properly.
    • To create a text watermark:
      1. For the Text property, enter the text to display in the output.
      2. For the Font property, enter the name of the font to display the text in.
      3. For the Color property, enter the hexadecimal color to display the text in.
    Note: If you specify values for both the Image and Text watermark properties, the Image property takes precedence and the Text property value does not display.
  4. Required: Specify values for the Height and Width properties. If you do not specify a height and width, the watermark does not display in the output.
  5. Optional: To turn the watermark, enter a number of degrees clockwise for the Rotation property.
  6. Save the changes.

Results

If you generate your document and the watermark does not display, verify that you dragged the master page from the Outline view to an element in the template content editor.

Example

To create a watermark that displays the text DRAFT:
  1. Create a master page and drag it into a Paragraph element.
  2. In the Outline view, select the master page.
  3. In the Properties view, select the Watermark tab.
  4. For the Text property, enter DRAFT.
  5. For the other properties, use the default values.
  6. To test the output, click Document Specification > Generate > Generate document.
Example result:
Example with Draft written across it

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