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Creating Recurring Patterns with "Watermarks"

The first guide shows how to add a watermark that appears on all pages. The second guide builds on the first one to add a header to the pages.

Creating a Watermark:

To create a watermark appearing behind every page of the document, at its original size, tiled to fill the page, and each tile rotated individually 45ยบ.

  1. Open the Document Settings dialog and select the Watermarks panel.
  2. Drag the object to be used for the watermark into the preview field (or click the "+" button and select it in the Open dialog). Rename the watermark if appropriate.
  3. Select the "Behind" option from the "Layer" popup button to make the object appear behind the pages.
  4. In the "Size" box select "Tile (Manual Size)" from the popup menu.
  5. Enter 45 in the rotation field.
  6. Click the Rotation button that appeared to the left of the rotation field, to toggle on the individual rotation of each tile.
  7. If appropriate set a reasonable opacity (e.g. 12%).
  8. If you are not seeing a preview of the desired page enter the number of the page in the "Preview Page" field.

  9. Play around with the alignment option to see how they affect the appearance of the tiled pattern.
  10. The gutters also interact with the placement of the tiles and the selected alignment option, so you can play around with values there too to discover the effects that can be obtained.

The object will appear on all pages, behind each page's contents.

Defining a waterMark

Creating a Header:

Building on the previous example, we will now add a header to the pages.

  1. Add the graphic or text file to be used for the header by dragging it onto the preview area (or click the "+" button and select it in the Open dialog). Give it an appropriate name.
  2. Size it to fit proportionately.
  3. Align to top.
  4. Exclude it from first and last page if appropriate.

The object will appear on all pages across the width of the top.

Defining a header

Creating a "Confidential" watermark:

It is common to want to mark the pages of a file with a single word, or short text, like "CONFIDENTIAL".

  1. Click the + Name button and name the watermark according the text you want to appear on the page. In this case we name the watermark "CONFIDENTIAL".
  2. Flick the Font button to bring up the font panel.
  3. Select the font you want to use and the font size. You can also use the panel to set the text color and the underline and strikethrough styles.
  4. Set the rotation. For this watermark we specify a 315º rotation.
  5. Set the opacity. Say, 15%

The object will appear on all pages across slanted across the center of the page.

Defining a header

See also

"Watermarks" and other recurring patterns
Creating Step and Repeat Layouts