Automatic generated text on printouts

Question

Hi

I want to protect a pdf in such a way that when people want to print it, it is allowed but on the printout a sentence stating that "this is a copy and is only valid on this date (the date of today is inserted)".

Does any of you know how to do this?

Thanks in advance

Regards Christine

try67 · Answer

Add a hidden (but printable) text field to your file and then use a script on the document's Will Print event to populate it.

If the field is called "PrintWarning" then the code would be:

this.getField("PrintWarning").value = "this is a copy and is only valid on this date " + util.printd("dd/mm/yyyy", new Date());

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