Change Watermark Text Color from Gray to Black---how?

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5 total messages Started by sandimathers Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:46

#2519

Author: sandimathers
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:46

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Hi, I am creating docs for clients that need watermarks. Right now, when I go into Setup->Properties->Advanced, I turn on the Watermark and the only options I have are Gray and Outlined. When either one prints, it's a very faint gray which doesn't show when printed on hardcopy. I went into the PPD file, but couldn't find any way to change the color to black (or even dark gray, even tho it says it bold)---can someone help me figure out how to do this? Thank you.

Re: Change Watermark Text Color from Gray to Black---how?

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Author: Art Campbell
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:51

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Sandi,
Unless I'm totally mis-reading your message, you're talking about setting up a property of whatever printer you're using, not anything in Frame. So adjusting the color used would depend on what printer you're using, and you don't mention that.

Art

Re: Change Watermark Text Color from Gray to Black---how?

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Author: Van_Kurtz
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:32

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Sandi,

If you cannot find a way to do what you want in your printer setup, you can add a watermark in a PDF. Print your document to the Adobe PDF printer to create the PDF. Then open the PDF in Acrobat and add the watermark by selecting Document > Watermark > Add. In the dialog box, you can specify the text of the water mark, its font, its size, its color, its position, etc. Do not choose a gray color, instead choose black or some other solid color; then set the transparency to whatever percentage you want. This will allow text underneath the watermark to show through. You can also specify on which pages the water mark appears. You can also do multiple watermarks.

I have Acrobat Professional, so I do not know whether this feature is available in Acrobat Standard or even Acrobat Reader.

If you do not have this feature in your version of Acrobat, you can add the watermark to your master pages in FrameMaker, but then you have to remove them when you do not want them to display.

Van

Re: Change Watermark Text Color from Gray to Black---how?

#2525

Author: R._VanDyke
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:45

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Sandi, et al:

Regarding Van's comment, "I have Acrobat Professional, so I do not know whether this feature is available in Acrobat Standard or even Acrobat Reader."

- Standard = yes, available

- Reader = no, unavailable

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley

Re: Change Watermark Text Color from Gray to Black---how?

#2526

Author: sandimathers
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:22

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Van --- this worked perfectly!!! Thank you so much.

Art, I should have put my printer, Lanier LD328cPS. Sorry about that! I usually set the watermarks up in the PPD file, but the Lanier PPD doesn't have any place that I can see to change the color or transparency... If you know, then let me know!

Thanks so much for the replies, this site is so helpful!

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