Using Pitstop for Watermarking

[MJX]

I'm creating an action list to place a screened version of our company logo on our view-only PDFs and I've run into a little snag. While I figured out how to bring the graphic in, make it transparent and center it, how do you set it up so that it will scale the graphic so that it will fit to the width of the page size?

Thanks!

[the_brain]

Originally Posted by MJX

I'm creating an action list to place a screened version of our company logo on our view-only PDFs and I've run into a little snag. While I figured out how to bring the graphic in, make it transparent and center it, how do you set it up so that it will scale the graphic so that it will fit to the width of the page size?

Thanks!

try...

Select last added object
scale page content to fit.

Not sure if it will work.

One other thing you can do is make sure the watermark has been scaled already before using it as an add copied graphic.

cheers,
Brain

[leonardr]

FWIW - you can also do this using Adobe Acrobat 7 and later...(either manually or as part of a batch operation).

[MJX]

I've tried the "Select last added object + Scale page content to fit." but it didn't adjust the object. And with our work there's no point in scaling the object beforehand because we have pages coming in a whole array of different sizes (postage stamp sized to jumbo posters).

Acrobat does a great job with watermarking (auto-sizing to fit page, transparency, centering), but we really want to have it automatically added to generated PDFs which is why I'm trying to do it through pitstop...

[the_brain]

Originally Posted by MJX

I've tried the "Select last added object + Scale page content to fit." but it didn't adjust the object. And with our work there's no point in scaling the object beforehand because we have pages coming in a whole array of different sizes (postage stamp sized to jumbo posters).

Acrobat does a great job with watermarking (auto-sizing to fit page, transparency, centering), but we really want to have it automatically added to generated PDFs which is why I'm trying to do it through pitstop...

You can always send your question (maybe with a sample file) to Enfocus Support (support@enfocus.com). They have a pretty fast reply policy.

Cheers,
Brain

[MJX]

I will give them a shot, thanks for your help guys.


Cheers!

MJX.

[jminrod]

If you are using a mac I would recommend using automator. It allows you to use all apps it will do what you are looking for and then some. Resize watermark, email etc...
It is like apple script for dummies And its free with your Mac

[MJX]

Originally Posted by jminrod

If you are using a mac I would recommend using automator. It allows you to use all apps it will do what you are looking for and then some. Resize watermark, email etc...
It is like apple script for dummies And its free with your Mac

Unfortunately, this is all being done on the PC...