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Creating document watermarks

A watermark is a faint design appearing in the background of a page. Watermarks typically identify or decorate pages, and can display either text or an image. For examples of both, see the Document Creation Help.

You can create a document watermark for a particular document; it is used instead of the project watermark, if one exists, which is displayed on all documents in the project. If the project has a watermark but you do not want to display any watermark on a specific document, you can specify that the document does not have watermarks (instructions are included below).

To create a document watermark

This procedure affects the entire document, including all layouts of a multi-layout document. For more information on multi-layout documents, including which properties apply to the document as a whole or to individual layouts, see Creating multi-layout documents.

  1. Open a document in Design view. (How?)

  2. From the Format menu, select Document Properties. The Document Properties dialog box opens.

  3. Select Document.

  4. Click Format in the Watermark area. The Watermark dialog box opens.

    The watermark can display either text or an image; complete only the appropriate step below.

  5. Create a text watermark

    1. Select Text watermark.

    2. In the Text field, type the text to display as the watermark, up to 255 characters.

    3. To change the appearance of the text, click Format, which opens the Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box. You can select the font, size, color, and so on. Click OK when you have made your selections.

    4. By default, the watermark uses the font size defined in the Format Cells dialog box. To allow the font size to automatically adjust to fill the layout, select the Size font automatically check box. This can be useful if the document contains both portrait and landscape pages.

    5. To fade the watermark to ensure that the document information is legible through the watermark, select the Washout check box.

      Any object that has a fill color, including a white fill, covers the watermark. If you want a watermark to show through a Grid/Graph, set the background of the Grid/Graph's cells to transparent. Similarly, the background of a text field, rectangle, and so on must be transparent to allow the watermark to show through these objects.

    6. By default, the text is printed diagonally across the page. To print it horizontally instead, select Horizontal in the Orientation area.

  6. Create an image watermark:

    As with images placed elsewhere on a document, the image file must be available to both the Intelligence Server and to the designers of the document. For details, see Adding images to documents.

    1. Select Image watermark.

    2. Click … (the Browse button) next to the Source field. The Image Source dialog box opens.

    3. Do one of the following to select and preview the image file:

      • Type the path and file name of the image in the text field. Click Preview.

      • Click … (the Browse button) and select the image file. The preview area automatically displays the image.

    4. Once you have selected the image to use as the watermark, click OK.

       By default, the image is automatically resized to fit within the document margins while retaining the image's aspect ratio. To scale the image manually, select a percentage from the Scale drop-down list. The image is scaled to the selected percentage of its original size.

      The Washout option is not available for an image watermark, as you can achieve the same result by creating the image using faded or dim colors.

  1. If you do not want any watermark to appear on this document but a project watermark has been created, select No watermark.

  2. Click OK to return to the Document Properties dialog box.

  3. Click OK to return to the document.

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