Creating a watermark script

Question

Hi - I am trying to create a script to add a watermark to all the masterpages of a document. I am trying to create a function which adds a text frame to a layer called watermark. The script is as below

var myDocument=app.activeDocument;

var myPages = app.activeDocument.pages;

var myPage = app.activeDocument.pages.item(0);

var myMasterSpread=myDocument.masterSpreads.everyItem();

var myMasterLength = app.activeDocument.masterSpreads.length;

var myTextFrame;

//Creating a layer called watermark and moving it to the end

try

{

var myLayer=myDocument.layers.add();

myLayer.name = "watermark";

myLayer.move(LocationOptions.AT_END);

}

catch(e_layer)

{

var myLayer=myDocument.layers.item(0);

}

//creating function for watermark

function watermark()

{

myTextFrame=myMasterSpread.textFrames.add({contents: "DRAFT", rotationAngle:45, geometricBounds: [190, 70, 220, 195]});

myTextFrame.itemLayer=myDocument.layers.item("Watermark");

};

watermark ();

This is working fine. But I am unable to change the font, point size of the text frame.

I can add the same if I am not creating a function with the following script but it does not work when I add it to the above function.

It just runs and throws no error.

var myTextObject = myTextFrame.parentStory.paragraphs.item(0);

myTextObject.appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Times New Roman");

myTextObject.pointSize=105;

myTextObject.fillColor=myDocument.colors.add({name:"test", model:ColorModel.process, colorValue:[0, 0, 0, 12]});

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank

Rahul Arya

Trevor: · Answer

look at the DocumentWatermark.jsx sample that comes with indesign

main();
function main(){
    mySetup();
    mySnippet();
    myTeardown();
}
//<setup>
function mySetup() {
    var myDocument = app.documents.add();
    myDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points; 
    myDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points; 
    myDocument.documentPreferences.pageHeight = 792; 
    myDocument.documentPreferences.pageWidth = 612; 
    var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[36, 36, 756, 576], contents:TextFrameContents.PLACEHOLDER_TEXT});
}
//</setup>
//<snippet>
function mySnippet() {
    //<fragment>
    var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkVisibility = true;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkDoPrint = true;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkDrawInBack = true;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkText = "Confidential";
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkFontFamily = "Arial";
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkFontStyle = "Bold";
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkFontPointSize = 72;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkFontColor = UIColors.blue; 
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkOpacity = 60;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkRotation = -45;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkHorizontalPosition = WatermarkHorizontalPositionEnum.watermarkHCenter;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkHorizontalOffset = 0;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkVerticalPosition = WatermarkVerticalPositionEnum.watermarkVCenter;
    myDocument.watermarkPreferences.watermarkVerticalOffset = 0;
    //</fragment>
}
//</snippet>
//<teardown>
function myTeardown() {
}
//</teardown>

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