How to create a Watermark ?

Hi List

I'm working on a new requirement where the users would like a watermark appearing on the document, ie. REPRINT across the page in the background. Any ideas what the best approach is to this ?

It will be a subform and it needs to be attached to the project background. Hope this helps.

RW
JDE 8.12, Create!Forms

It can be done several different ways;

- Subform as Report_Writer suggests.

- Text Variable mapped to text on the PDF page that contains "Reprint". This assumes that the UBE prints that text on the page when a reprint of the document is generated.

- Text object with the text "Reprint" hard coded into it but using a display condition to only print that object when the document is a reprint.

The Text can be set to use a shade of gray (instead of black) to get the "watermark" effect. You'll need to make sure it's behind all other objects and text. Colors (including gray) are not transparent and will block out the objects they lay on top of. Rotate the object if you want the look of the "Reprint" watermark to be angled across the page.

Questions back to you;

- How will you know that the PDF coming from JDE is a reprint?

- Will it have something on the PDF page that you can use as an identifier or will reprints be generated from a specific UBE Version?


Karen.

Hi Karen and Report_Writer

Thanks for your responses and the approach I've taken is to create a text object on the background(s).

As to how the C!F project will know it's a reprint, the raw pdf contains 'REPRINT'.