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Watermarks in Adobe...show only when printed?? Contain current date???

We have an application that creates a PDF document from a Word/Excel files. The files are opened by the native application and printed to a postscript printer. Then Adobe Distiller is envoked to do the actual converison to a pdf file. By using the Prologue file, a watermark can be added to the pdf file (ie...Uncontrolled if Printed) but I have a couple of questions regarding pdf files and the postscript page definition language...

1) Is is possible to have the watermark only show when actually printed? Currently, when a watermark is added, it is visable even when the document is viewed.

2) What commands would be necessage to add to the Prologue file to include the current date (preferably the date the pdf file is printer/viewed)?

Thanks,

Rich

Visual3DMaya

What you see is what you print in a pdf format.

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Since I am adding the Watermark using the Prologue.ps file in the Distiller, is there any way to specify that the watermark is to be printed only; not on displayed documents? Which the two options you have described "show when displaying" and "show when printing", there should be an option in the distiller to accomplish the same functions.

For the date...is there any option to use the date the document is printed instead of the creation date?

Serena Hsi

On the date part, there isn't any way to specify creation date or printed date, like the feature available in Microsoft Word with the custom formatted fields. It just shows the current date.

For watermarks, prologue.ps, and Distiller:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331150.html