Configure Watermark Printing

You can configure watermark text to appear on hard copies made with the Meridian viewer, similar to the following figure. These watermarks are typically used to describe the circumstances of a document, such as who has printed the document or when it was printed. For this reason, they may be described as dynamic watermarks.

To configure static watermarks related to the content of a document, see Configure Rendition Watermarks.

This can be useful to indicate unapproved drawings, expiration dates, time stamps, and so on. You can configure the following characteristics of watermarks:

Text, which can include property values
Font, size, color, and transparency of the text
Position on the printed page and angle of the text
Title text to appear as the header or footer of the printed page

The watermark options are set with VBScript in the DraftPrint_SetWaterMark event procedure because it is invoked immediately before printing occurs.

Note:

The DraftPrint_SetWaterMark event procedure performs the same function for AutoVue in Meridian Explorer as the DocGenericEvent_BeforePrint procedure performs for AutoVue in Meridian Enterprise. The procedures can configure the same watermarks or they can configure different watermarks.
These watermarks appear on hard copy output from the viewer and are independent of watermarks that can be added to renditions by Publisher.
The settings Enable draft print and Enable watermarks on draft print hardcopies must be set to True as described in Configure the Application Options.
These watermarks can be rotated to match the page rotation of specific printers using these registry values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyco\AutoManager View Control2\Settings\AVLandscape

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Cyco\AutoManager View Control2\Settings\AVLandscape

Watermarks use the Client.Viewer.Watermark properties described in the following table. You do not have to use all of the properties, only the ones necessary to produce the results you want.

Watermark options
Property	Type	Description
Angle	Long	The angle of the watermark text in degrees.
Color	String	The color of the watermark text, specified as an AS_WATERMARK_COLORS constant.
Font	String	The font of the watermark text. Can be any installed Windows font.
FrameWidth	Long	The width of a line framing the printed page.
Size	Long	The font size of the watermark text in points.
Style	Long	The position of the watermark text on the printed page using one or more AS_WATERMARK_STYLES constants. To combine style options, use the Or operator.
Text	String	The watermark text to print.
TitleFont	String	The font of the title text. Can be any installed Windows font.
TitleFontSize	Long	The font size of the title text in points.
TitleStyle	Long	The position of the title text on the printed page using one or more AS_WATERMARK_TITLESTYLES constants. To combine style options, use the Or operator. You can specify only one title. You cannot print one title in the header and another title in the footer.
TitleText	String	The title text to print. Title text is always printed in black.
Transparency	Long	The transparency of the watermark text in percent.

Following is an example event procedure that incorporates all of the watermark properties and produces a watermark, frame, and title similar to those in the preceding figure.

Note:

vbCrLf can only be used with TitleText, not with Text.

Sub DraftPrint_SetWaterMark()
    Client.Viewer.WaterMark.Angle = 45
    Client.Viewer.WaterMark.Font = "Arial"
    Client.Viewer.WaterMark.Size = 36
    Client.Viewer.WaterMark.Text = "NOT FOR USE"
    Client.Viewer.WaterMark.TitleFont = "Arial"
    Client.Viewer.WaterMark.TitleFontSize = 10
    Client.Viewer.WaterMark.TitleStyle = AS_WMTS_CENTRED Or AS_WMTS_HEADER
    Client.Viewer.WaterMark.TitleText = "Printed by: " & User.FullName & " on: " & DateValue(Today)
End Sub

Note:

When watermark properties are processed by AutoVue, the following limitations apply:

Values for Angle other than 0, 90, 180, and 270 are converted to diagonal
All values for Transparency are ignored and watermarks are printed semi-transparent
All values of Style that specify positioning are ignored and watermarks are centered on the page
Frames (AS_WMS_DRAWFRAME constant) are not supported
TitleText is converted to header text unless it includes the special markup tags <H></H> that enclose the header text and <F></F> that enclose the footer text.