A watermark is a faint design appearing in the background of a page. Watermarks typically identify or decorate pages. Examples include the word Confidential stamped on every page or a business logo appearing in the background of every page. If the document contains multiple layouts, the watermark appears in every page of every layout. Watermarks in documents can be either text or an image. For examples of both, see the Report Services Document Creation Guide.
The watermark is placed within the margins of the document; it does not extend to the edge of the paper.
In a text watermark, the text is cropped if it extends past the document margins.
For an image watermark, the image is centered on the page. As with images placed elsewhere on a document, the image file must be available to both the Intelligence Server and to the designers of the document. For details, see Adding images to documents.
Watermarks are displayed in the exported PDF only; they are not shown in Design, Editable, Interactive, Flash, or Express Mode in MicroStrategy Web.
A watermark is a document backdrop. Whatever you print on that paper appears on top of the watermark. Therefore, any object that is not transparent prints over or hides the watermark. If you want a watermark to show through a Grid/Graph, set the background of Grid/Graph cells to transparent. Similarly, the background of a text field, rectangle, and so on must be transparent to allow the watermark to show.
You can define watermarks at both the project level and the document level.
A project watermark allows you to have the same watermark, such as a business logo, on every document in the project. You create project watermarks in MicroStrategy Desktop. Project watermarks are displayed in both Desktop and MicroStrategy Web.
A document watermark allows specific documents to have an individual watermark. By default, when document watermarks are enabled, they overwrite the project watermark.
For example, most documents display your business logo; however, internal documents need to be marked Confidential. Since a project watermark is overwritten by a document watermark, you can create a project watermark that uses the logo, but allow documents to overwrite the project watermark. Next, for each internal document, create a document watermark with the text Confidential.
You can also choose whether to enable document watermarks, so that you can control whether the project watermarks can be overwritten. This allows you to create a variety of watermarks for different purposes.
For steps to perform any of the following scenarios, see the MicroStrategy Desktop Online Help:
All documents from a particular project must be marked Confidential. To do this, create a project watermark with the text Confidential. Since you do not ever want this project watermark to be overwritten, disable document watermarks in Desktop.
The project has a watermark but you do not want to display any watermark on a specific document. To do this, set the document's watermark to no watermark.
You do not want to allow any watermarks on any documents. To do this, set the project watermark to no watermark and disable document watermarks.
You can create project watermarks and enable document watermarks only from MicroStrategy Desktop, not in MicroStrategy Web. The settings affect both Desktop and Web, however. You can create document watermarks in MicroStrategy Web as well as in Desktop.
Open the document in Design or Editable Mode.
From the Tools menu, select Document Properties. The Properties dialog box opens.
From the left, select Watermark:
To ensure that the project watermark is displayed on the document, from the Watermark drop-down list, select Use project watermark.
From the Watermark drop-down list, select Text watermark to create a text watermark:
In the Text field, type the text to display as the watermark, up to 255 characters.
To change the appearance of the text, click Format, which opens the Font Formatting dialog box. You can select the font, size, color, and so on. Click OK when you have made your selections.
By default, the watermark uses the font size defined in the Font Formatting dialog box. To allow the font size to automatically adjust to fill the layout, select the Size font automatically check box.
To fade the watermark to ensure that the document information is legible through the watermark, select the Washout check box.
By default, the text is printed diagonally across the page. To print it horizontally instead, select Horizontal from the Orientation drop-down list.
From the
Watermark drop-down list, select
Image watermark to create an image
watermark:
Note: As with images placed elsewhere on a document,
the image file must be available to both the Intelligence Server and to
the designers of the document. For details, see
Adding
images to documents.
Type the path and file name of the image in the Source field. Click Preview.
By default, the image is automatically resized to fit within the document margins while retaining its aspect ratio. To scale the image manually, select a percentage from the Scale drop-down list.
If you do not want any watermark to appear on this document, select No watermark. This hides all document and project watermarks.
Click OK to return to the document.