You can create dynamic watermarks with several watermark
elements with each element specified as either text or PDF. You
can include up to five elements, in a watermark.
If you choose a text-based watermark, you can specify several
elements within the watermark with multiple text entries and specify
the positioning of each element. Assign meaningful names to these
elements, such as header, footer, and so on.
For example, if you want to specify different text in the header,
footer, on the margins, and across the document as a watermark,
you create several watermark elements and specify their positions.
If you want the user ID of the user and the current date of accessing
the document to appear in the header, the policy name in the right
margin, and a custom text “CONFIDENTIAL” to appear diagonally across
the document, you define separate watermark elements with text as
the type, and specify its formatting and positioning. When the watermark
is applied to a document, all the elements in the watermark are
applied to the document at the same time, in the order they are
added to the watermark.
Typically, you use PDF-based watermarks to include graphic contents
such as logos or special symbols such as copyright or registered
trademark.
You can change the limits on the number of watermark elements
and the PDF file size by modifying the Rights Management configuration
file. See Change the watermark configuration parameters.
Keep in mind the following when you configure watermarks:
You cannot use a password-protected PDF document as
the watermark element. However, if the watermark that you create
contains other elements that are not password-protected, they will
be applied as part of the watermark.
You can change the maximum PDF file size that you want to
use as watermark element. However, large PDF documents used as watermarks
degrade performance during offline synchronization of documents
applied with such watermarks. See Change the watermark configuration parameters.
Only the first page of the selected PDF is used as the watermark.
Ensure that the information that you want to appear as watermark
is available on the first page itself.
Even though you can specify the scaling of the PDF document,
consider the page size and layout of the PDF if you plan to use
it as a watermark in the header, footer, or margins.
When specifying the font name, enter the name correctly.
LiveCycle substitutes the font that you specified if it is not present
in the client machine where the document is opened.
If you selected text as the watermark content, specifying
the scaling option as Fit To Page does not work for pages that have
dissimilar width.
When you specify the positioning of the watermark elements,
ensure that no more than one element has the same positioning. If
two watermark elements have the same positioning such as center,
they appear overlapped on the document, and in the order they were
added to the watermark.
When specifying the font size and type, ensure that the length
of text is completely visible within the page. Text contents roll
over into new lines, so the watermark content that you intended
to be present in the margins might overlap into the content areas
on pages. However, if the document is opened in Acrobat 9, text
beyond the single line is truncated.
