Watermarks

The Watermarks page of the Printing Preferences window allows you to add image watermarks on the generated PDF pages.

The window can be opened by choosing the Printing Preferences menu item when novaPDF is selected in the Printers and Faxes window and clicking the Watermarks tab. This tab is also accessible from the printing Windows application in the Print dialog if you press the Properties (Preferences) button when novaPDF is selected.

Enable watermarks

You can choose to enable watermarks by checking this option. Depending on the number of added watermarks the size of the resulted PDF files will increase.

Watermarks

You can define, copy, edit and delete watermarks and change their order in this group.

Watermaks list

The list contains information about all watermarks. The Name column holds the watermark's name, the Type column shows the type (text or image)

New Image

This button opens a new window (see New/Edit Image Watermark) and adds a new watermark at the end of the list.

Copy

This button adds a new watermark with the same attributes as the selected one in the list-view. A new window is opened and you can change the attributes of the new watermark.

Edit

This button opens a new window (see New/Edit Image Watermark) where you can modify the attributes of a watermark, such as enabling or disabling the watermark, image file, transparency and position.

Delete

The delete button remove the selected watermark from the list.

Move Up

The watermarks are added on the PDF pages in the order they are defined in the list. If you want to bring forward one of them use the Move Up button.

Move Down

The watermarks are added on the PDF pages in the order they are defined in the list. If you want to send to back one of them use the Move Down button.

New/Edit Image Watermark

This window is used to customize attributes for a new created or an existing image watermark. It is opened by pressing the New Image... , Copy... or Edit... buttons placed on the Watermarks window, from the Printing Preferences dialog.

Name

Unique watermark name.

Print On

You can select on which PDF pages to print the watermark. Available options are: All pages, Even pages, First page, Odd pages, Range.

Range

If you selected Range from the Print On drop-down list, you can enter the page range in the next format: "2, 3, 5" or "2 - 5"

File

Enter an image file. The following file formats are supported:

• Windows or OS/2 Bitmap File (*.BMP)
• DirectDraw Surface (*.DDS)
• Graphics Interchange Format (*.GIF)
• Windows Icon (*.ICO)
• Independent JPEG Group (*.JPG, *.JIF, *.JPEG, *.JPE)
• Portable Bitmap (BINARY) (*.PBM)
• Zsoft Paintbrush PCX bitmap format (*.PCX)
• Portable Network Graphics (*.PNG)
• Portable Pixelmap (BINARY) (*.PPM)
• Adobe Photoshop (*.PSD)
• Truevision Targa files (*.TGA, *.TARGA)
• Tagged Image File Format (*.TIF, *.TIFF)
• X11 Bitmap Format (*.XBM)

Browse

You can also browse for an image pressing this button.

Image Properties

You can set different options here for the image, like width, height, fit, units.

Width

Width of the image expressed in the measurement unit selected from the Units drop-down list. If the Fit to margins checkbox is not checked, you can enter a value.

Height

Width of the image expressed in the measurement unit selected from the Units drop-down list. If the Fit to margins checkbox is not checked, you can enter a value.

Keep aspect ratio

If this option is checked, the image will be printed with the same aspect ratio as in the original image file. If the Keep aspect ratio is not checked, the image is scaled to fit the entire page. You can see how the watermark image will be printed in the Preview control. By default this option is checked.

Fit to margins

You can choose to draw the watermark image on the entire PDF page by checking the Fit to margins checkbox. By default this option is checked.

Units

You can select the measurement units for the width and height in the Units from this drop-down list.

Other

This group deals with color, color variation, rotation and opacity.

Transparent color

You can choose a color to be considered transparent color when drawing the image on the PDF page. By default, there is no transparent color.

Rotation

You can choose a rotation angle for the image watermark. By default, there is no rotation.

Opacity

You can select an opacity percentage for the image watermark. By default, the image watermark is drawn with maximum opacity, 100%. If you decrease the opacity value, the image will be drawn with lighter colors.

Color variation

When you choose a transparent color you can set a slight variation that will be considered also as transparent.

Visible

You can enable or disable the image watermark by checking/unchecking this checkbox.

As background

If this checkbox is checked, the image watermark will be drawn on the PDF page first, under the texts and images of the printed document. If the As background checkbox is not checked, the image watermark will be drawn on the PDF page at the end, above the texts and images of the printed document. By default, the As background checkbox is checked.

Custom position

By pressing the Custom position button a new window is opened for customizing the position where the image watermark will be drawn (see Custom Position).

Preview

The selected image file is drawn exactly as it will be drawn on the PDF page. The image is updated automatically when changing image watermarks attributes.

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