[thelist] 'watermarking' PDFs

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 23 11:21:01 CST 2003


> From: "j.d. welch" <so.there at showtunepink.com>
>
> ah, i knew there had to be something clever like that.  by following
> an adobe tutorial (http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/20b32.htm)
> _exactly[0]_  i was able to create custom stamps[1], which is just
> what i had in mind-- scalable, resizable, easy to do and removable
> later on.

cool, glad i could help...

> if anyone's interested, there's an example at
> http://prospero.gotdns.org/cert/onepage.pdf

so, didja try embedding a URL into the stamp? see if that little plug
could actually be useful if the user wants to go there, instead of
having to zoom in and type it?

also, it looks almost like you converted your text to curves/paths
before you output that stamp, which makes it hard to read at lower
magnifications (like full page view)... for some reason, Acrobat does
a poor job of antialiasing text converted to paths...

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  Web Graphics for Non-Designers
  http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904151159/evoltorg02-20
  ISBN: 1904151159






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