Watermark Printing

Thread View: adobe.psprinter.windows

3 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

3 total messages Started by Dale Kumley Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:16

#1060

Author: Dale Kumley
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:16

1 lines
871 bytes

There used to be a user interface option in the Adobe PS printer drivers for adding watermarks to printed documents. What happened to this functionality?

Re: Watermark Printing

#1061

Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:23

4 lines
1030 bytes

Perhaps you upgraded to an NT-based system, where Microsoft decided
there was no such option.

Aandi Inston

Re: Watermark Printing

#1062

Author: Dov Isaacs
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 21:38

7 lines
1916 bytes

The �watermark� functionality was provided only with the AdobePS 4.x drivers for Windows'9x/Me and AdobePS 8.x drivers for MacOS 9.2 (and earlier). No such functionality is provided by the AdobePS 5.x drivers for Windows NT 4 or the PSCRIPT 5.x drivers for Windows 2000/XP (the AdobePS 5.x and PSCRIPT 5.x drivers are nearly identical under the hood except for versions of OS supported).

There were two major problems with these implementations of watermarks. The first was that they didn't work with many applications that generated their own PostScript and used the driver only as a conduit to PostScript transmission to the printer. The second was that since PostScript doesn't have the concept of object �transparency,� the watermarks were quite often totally obscured by page content or page content was obscured by the watermark.

The workaround with the better graphical result is to create a PDF file from your content and then, in Acrobat 5.0.5, use the �rubberstamp� facility to do watermarking. Make your own custom watermark in Illustrator and use transparency to make the watermark effect realistic.

- Dov

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads