Security Watermark Management

1. Creating Profile

Before adding a watermark, you should create a profile first. The application will apply all of the watermarks in the profile to a PDF.

Note: you can only choose a profile but not a certain watermark to use. Please create the watermarks you want to add to one PDF in the same profile.

• Choose Protect > Settings > Security Watermark.
• Click New Profile to create a profile and name it.

2. Add Watermark

To add a new watermark, please do the followings:

• Open the Security Watermark Management and select a profile you created and click Add to add watermarks in the profile.
• Type the watermark’s name.

• Fill in the watermark’s content in the text box and set the font, size, color, underline, and alignment.

  Note: you can only set text as watermark.

• Choose the Dynamic Text. When any PDF reader opens the file, the watermark will show the current document information dynamically and you can use multiple text at the same time. 

  Content ID: shows the content ID of the current document.

  Document Title: shows the current document title.

  Author: shows the author of current document.

  Current User: shows the current user who is reading the document.

  Date: shows the current system date when opening the document.

  Day: shows the current system day when opening the document.

  Month: shows the current system month when opening the document.

  Year: shows the current system year when opening the document.

  Time: shows the current system time when opening the document.

  Hour: shows the current system hours when opening the document.

  Minute: shows the current system minutes when opening the document.

  Second: shows the current system seconds when opening the document.

• Set the appearance by choosing the rotation degree and the opacity. You also have the option to make the scale relative to the target page. 
• Set the vertical and horizontal distance between the target page and the watermark.
• Choose the page range to apply the watermark. You can select the different page range options by selecting from the subset list.
• Preview the watermark in the right pane.
• Click OK to finish.

3. Edit or Delete Watermark

Edit a Watermark

• Open the Security Watermark Management and select a watermark you want to edit.
• Click Edit to open the Edit Security Watermark dialog box.
• To edit the watermark, please refer to “Add Watermark”.
• Click OK to finish the operation.

Delete a Watermark

• Open the Security Watermark Management and select a watermark you want to delete.
• Click Delete to remove the selected watermark.

4. Import or Export Watermark

Import a Watermark

• Open the Security Watermark Management and click Import.
• Choose a watermark with .xml format.
• Click Open.

Export a Watermark

• Open the Security Watermark Management and select a watermark you want to export. 
• Click Export and choose a file type and location to save.
• The watermark will be exported as an .xml file or encoded file according to your choice. It can be integrated into AIP policy template and applied to the PDF files by Foxit PDF Editor.

Notes: 

1. If you want to integrate the watermark to a common policy template, please export it as an .xml file and add it to the template by Foxit PDF Editor directly.

2. If you want to integrate the watermark to an official policy template, please export it as an encoded file (.txt format) and integrate it into the template by AIP Scripting API Architecture. Then you can import the template and apply it to PDFs by Foxit PDF Editor. (Please click here to see the example and use the value of “appData.Name” and “appData.Value” in the exported encoded file.)