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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: watermarking PDF
 What would be the best way to add a watermark to a PDF using xsl:fo? Something like "Confidential" accross the page Sticking to XSL-FO, yes, but .... How can I make that almost fill the page (given I also have header and footer) By segmenting the graphic into the different region dimensions and giving applying the different fragments to the regions. Not pretty. And there are no scaling facilities in the standard XSL-FO vocabulary for the image background. And who knows if the registration of the rendered images would look seamless? In my work I use a post-process on the PDF using iText to add the watermark. If you knew the Z-level of the regions produced by your formatter (the region Z-levels are not standardized and vary between different products), you could create overlapping regions. Say, make the "start" region the size of the page, and then render a scaled image in that region. If that region's Z-level is below the body region, then you'll get a watermark effect (if not, it will obscure your content). Note that technically you would be triggering an error condition, so the formatter may not support you on this: the foreground of any one region is not supposed to occupy the same printed dot as the foreground of any other region. This is not a problem with the backgrounds, only the foregrounds. When I use overlapping regions for my UBL invoice rendering, I make sure the foregrounds are mutually exclusive. So, I suppose, you could have a single overlapping "start" region behind your body, header and footer regions, and then put your one non-fragmented image into the start region background .... *if* the Z-level of the start region is lower than that of the other three regions for your vendor's tool. Would that work for both FOP and AntennaHouse? Would .jpg be the best image format I don't think there is a "best" ... JPG would be nice and small compared to, say, TIFF. I hope this helps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken -- Contact us for world-wide XML consulting and instructor-led training Free 5-hour video lecture: XSLT/XPath 1.0 & 2.0 http://ude.my/t37DVX Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Google+ profile: https://plus.google.com/116832879756988317389/about Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal 
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