Metadata in Watermarks?

I'm guessing this is not possible but... in ACDSee I can have the program stamp a bunch of images with this text...
Raw image for compositional review only.
Please refer to this image as '<File Properties:Filename>'
Phil Rose Photography
Where <File Properties:Filename> is replaced with the filename. I do this because my galleries frequently confuse clients for some reason and they look at '25 for 436' and refer to '25' instead of the filename which leads to mucho confusion! I'm assuming that that's not possible in LR as yet or am I missing something? Will I need to continue outputting from LR and having ACDSee do the stamping work?
Thanks all,
Phil

No, that's not possible.
You may want to use a third-party plugin, like LR2/Mogrify.

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Metadata into watermark

Hi,
This is a feature request I heard from many school photographers :
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Thanks,
Em

That would be a great request. This forum is primarily focused on the new features and bugs in the beta release, so it'll be closed when the beta finishes. The best place to get your requests considered is the Feature Request forum http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family because others can also add their votes so Adobe can see which requests are most popular, and the requests can be easily tracked. They stand a much better chance of getting attention there too.

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There's a work-around: Add the file name into the fields for caption or for title. In the web-module you can specify to add title or caption or both - In the web module right side in the panel <Image Info>.
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File settings -
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Here is the other post:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4410886#4410886
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Can i change the color of copyright metadata for a jpg export

i'm using lr 2.7 and want to know if i can use another color other than white in my copyright metadata added to a photo. if someone can help it'd solve some problems with the copyright fading into the image and not readily visible on light image backgrounds.
thank you in advance.

89 red baron wrote:
i think your instructions are for v3. but i found what i needed for v2.7 under Web panel.
Sorry, I didn't catch this fact in your post.
89 red baron wrote:
do you know if one can change color just in Develop or Library mode for an image to email?
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I would like to see the description with the image when it is attached to an email. I would also like to be able to create a DVD of the images that would include the descriptions when the DVD is played back.
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Acorn - $50
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How To Use a css File To Watermark A Report

Hello.
I am using Apex 4.0.1 and have a need to place a watermark (that is, a background image) over a report, both a "classic" type and Interactive Report.
I have two questions about this.
1) I've searched this Forum and found several good questions/responses about this subject. What I think is the most maintainable solution is to create a .css file and reference this file within the Template section of a copy of, say, the "Reports Region" template used by my application theme. And so, I made a copy of the "Reports Region" template and called it "Watermark Reports Region". I then created a very simple .css file called "bgimg.css" defined as:
#REGION_STATIC_ID# {
background-image: url(#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#menu_bug.png) !important;
background-repeat: repeat !important;
background-attachment: fixed !important;
Note: For those that may not know, the "!important" clause is, in fact, a css defined clause used to tell the browser that it should give the associated option the highest precedence. This prevents my desired css option from being overridden by another css file. Frankly, I myself did not know this until after I saw it being used in several of the responses on this Forum and then read up about it.
I uploaded this css file via the Apex "Shared Components -> Cascading Style Sheets" option. I also made sure that menu_bug.png is, in fact, among my workspace images.
I also made sure that my "Watermark Reports Region" template contains the substitution variable "REGION_STATIC_ID" and that my actual report region has a value in the Region Static Id field.
Within my "Watermark Reports Region" template, I tried to reference my .css file. This is where I think my problem is.
I placed
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#bgimg.css" />
at the very top of the Template section in my "Watermark Reports Region" template.
I then assigned my template to my Apex report. When I run my report, I see nothing.
So, how does one reference this css file within the template?
=================================================
2) I tried using my css tags as an internal style by placing it within the "HTML Header" section of my application page. I used:
<style type="text/css">
#empreport {
background-image: url(#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#menu_bug.png) !important;
background-repeat: repeat !important;
background-attachment: fixed !important;
</style>
I assigned a div tag to my report region header and footer that looks like:
In Header: <div id="empreport">
In Footer: </div>
When I run the report, I do get the image. But it is surrounding the report. It looks like my report is "floating" in a sea of bug images.
So, how can I get these images to actually appear within the report itself. In other words, I want the report itself to be "transparent" so as to allow these images to be seen within the report body itself.
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Elie

Elie
Thanks for taking the time to post sufficient information to understand the problem. In future if you're going to such efforts you might want to use them to reproduce the problem on apex.oracle.com, which means you can share actual working (or more likely not working!) code. Please also always wrap code posted on the forum in tags<tt>\...\</tt> tags to preserve formatting and special characters.
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I placed
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#bgimg.css" />
at the very top of the Template section in my "Watermark Reports Region" template.
>
According to the relevant HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.x standards, <tt>style</tt> and <tt>link rel="stylesheet"</tt> elements should only appear within the <tt>head</tt> element of a document.
This changes in HTML5. The new <tt>scoped</tt> attribute allows <tt>style</tt> to be used in a prescribed way elsewhere in the document, with the effect that the styling rules specified are only to be applied to the other descendant elements of that <tt>style</tt> element's parent (in the way you're trying to do here). I'd expect <tt>link</tt> with a <tt>rel="stylesheet"</tt> to remain restricted to <tt>head</tt> content in HTML5: off the top of my head I can't see a use case for referencing external stylesheets in a non-metadata context.
That said, current browsers apply CSS regardless of where in the document it appears, and future HTML5-compliant ones will continue to continue to do so for backwards compatibility. For myself, when using XHTML 1.0 I'll continue to follow the only put <tt>style</tt> and <tt>link</tt> elements in the page <tt>head</tt>. When I get round to using HTML5 for real I'll follow the standards for that as well.
I strongly recommend that you follow the standards and only put <tt>link rel="stylesheet"</tt> elements in the page <tt>head</tt>.
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Note: For those that may not know, the "!important" clause is, in fact, a css defined clause used to tell the browser that it should give the associated option the highest precedence. This prevents my desired css option from being overridden by another css file. Frankly, I myself did not know this until after I saw it being used in several of the responses on this Forum and then read up about it.
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Use <tt>!important</tt> only where it's actually needed. It's over-represented in this forum because Oracle changed the order of style sheet inclusion in APEX 4.0 and made it more difficult to override theme styles using CSS in the page HTML Header without modifying page templates.
Try your styles initially without using <tt>!important</tt>, and also consider using the cascade to provide any necessary overrides by including your CSS after other style sheets.
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I then created a very simple .css file called "bgimg.css" defined as:
#REGION_STATIC_ID# {
background-image: url(#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#menu_bug.png) !important;
background-repeat: repeat !important;
background-attachment: fixed !important;
I then assigned my template to my Apex report. When I run my report, I see nothing.
>
Because <tt>#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#</tt> is not substituted in external CSS files: +{thread:id=986329}+
If possible it's much better to locate image, CSS and JavaScript files externally on the file system. Otherwise you'll have to use the workaround suggested in that thread and include a <tt>style</tt> element in the page templates to specify the background image.
When I run the report, I do get the image. But it is surrounding the report. It looks like my report is "floating" in a sea of bug images.Reports are descendants of their region containers and may be subject to additional built-in or theme styles that overrides that specified for the region. Your CSS selector has to specify the report element, not the entire region.
So, how can I get these images to actually appear within the report itself. In other words, I want the report itself to be "transparent" so as to allow these images to be seen within the report body itself.I'd use a <tt>class</tt> attribute in the region template: this removes the need to use the <tt>#REGION_STATIC_ID#</tt> selector, and allows the CSS to go in the page <tt>head</tt> where it belongs. Add <tt>watermark-report-region</tt> in addition to any existing <tt>class</tt> values in the region template:
<div class="borderless-region watermark-report-region" id="#REGION_STATIC_ID#" #REGION_ATTRIBUTES#>
<div class="bl-body">#BODY#</div>
</div>You may have to inspect the page source (use a web inspector like that found in Safari, or the Firefox+Firebug combo) to figure out what has to be overridden in the theme/templates you're using. This worked for an Interactive Report using theme 17:
.watermark-report-region .apexir_WORKSHEET_DATA {
background: #fff url(/i/menu/blank_app_32.gif);
.watermark-report-region .apexir_WORKSHEET_DATA tr.even td,
.watermark-report-region .apexir_WORKSHEET_DATA tr.odd td {
background-color: transparent;
}For a standard report you'll need to identify the selector required for the actual report element (equivalent to the <tt>apexir_WORKSHEET_DATA</tt> table) using the web inspector or from the report template. It would be a good idea to create standard report template(s) incorporating a <tt>watermark-report</tt> class on the report table to provide a simple selector for such reports.

Javascript code to retrieve metadata - must run twice to work

Hi all
This is frustrating the hell out of me. I've got a script to batch add headers/footers (via watermarks) to a range of pdf documents by using the respective document's metadata (title, subject).
Checked everything: Script running ok, metadata all there and fine.
However - I need to run the script twice in order for the metadata to be processed. What I mean: I open a given document, run the script on it and the metadata is not displayed in the header/footer. Save the document and close. I then run the script on the same document again and all works fine, i.e. the metadata title is displayed in the header and the metadata subject is displayed in the footer. Driving me nuts.
What am I **** wrong? How can I get this to work on the first run? Guessing it might have to do with some specific form of variable declaration or pre-parsing the metadata?!
Script below (please not, I've also tried declaring 2 variables and assigning the metadata title & subject to them, then calling those variables in the watermark statements ... same result):
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    nVertAlign: app.constants.align.bottom,
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    nFontSize: 8,
    nHorizAlign: app.constants.align.center,
    nVertAlign: app.constants.align.bottom,
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My guess is your watermarks are overwriting one another, as they are all
saved under an OCG with the same name. Try flattening the page after adding
them, or use a different method, like a form field or an annotation.

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I make it a habit to always place a simple watermark on all my photos during Export. When i was using LR3 this always worked, but when I recently updated to LR5.2 the Copyright watermark does not show in my photos. I tried several repetitions exporting to .JPEG files, making sure that the Watermarking box is checked. Still, the photos do not show the Copyright symbol and my name.
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Acrobat 9 Pro - Add watermark to digitally signed pdf?

Greetings,
Is there a way to add a watermark to a digitally signed pdf using Acrobat 9 Pro? I was able to do this using Acrobat 8, but Acrobat 9 restricts this change.
Invalidating the signatures is not an issue as the watermarked copies would be considered uncontrolled.
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A - if you add XMP-based metadata (which has bene the preferred method of metadata since PDF 1.4) in "append mode", that will not invalidate any signatures on the document.
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So, all I'm looking for is a way to have access to the autofill list that is created for my custom metadata fields so that I can delete the erroneous autofill entry. I've thought about deleting the field entirely and recreating it, but that would remove all those indicators or flags that I have already entered for my photographs.
Alternatively I could find an IPTC field that I am not using and find a way to use it, (because those fields have autofill lists that can be edited). However my record keeping would be exported with the photograph. Some of the information that I collect is private and should not be included in the metadata while other information should be; that is why I've settled on custom metadata fields.
I hope there is a simple answer to this that I'm overlooking.
If someone else has another way of tracking this same information that is better than the custom metadata fields, I would like to hear about it. However, it would mean reworking all my photographs that Aperture currently manages.

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