Licence position wrong in landscape pages after portrait pages

Hi @loireau

You can use a negative integer to have the placement set from the bottom of the page instead of from the top. Try entering -10 into your Y-axis adjuster.

I believe the FAQ mentions this, and might explain more. There is no other way to do this when you have pages of various size, other than using hooks inside the plugin to re-factor placement after each page is measured. Thank you.

Hi @littlepackage, Thanks for the quick response.

Entering -10 into your Y-axis adjuster does not help. The problem seems to be the same. In the portrait pages after the landscape pages, the license message still appears in the middle of the page.

The FAQs say just:

Try decreasing font size, adjusting margins, adjusting rotation, or using the X and Y fine tuners to move the watermark back onto the page. The built-in adjustments on the settings page ultimately allow for watermarking on all document sizes. You may need to edit your watermark if it is too verbose.

I cannot see what to do now other than wild guesswork. I thought this would be easy!

Could I set the watermark from the top left, not from the bottom, would this be
easier?

The FAQ also says:

New in version 2.6 you can use a negative integer value for your Y-tuner and measure up from the bottom of the page. This is especially helpful if your PDF has variable sized pages.

Man, if PDF was easy, I’d have to pinch myself. Haha. PDF is not easy, ever.

All your pages are a different size, so if you set the watermark from the top left, on some pages you will come short. Set it from the bottom up will make it the same distance from the bottom of the page on each page. Try -20

There’s also this tooltip text on the Y-axis setting:

In millimeters. Move the footer watermark up and down on the page by adjusting this number. Default is 260 millimeters (bottom of letter-sized page). If this number is longer/higher than the length/height of your PDF, it will default back to -10 (10 millimeters from the bottom of the page). Account for the height of your font/text!

And you know the inner details of PDFs!

-20 makes no difference.

The document has groups of pages in each orientation:
1st several pages: 297mm high x 210mm wide. Licence is positioned nicely near the bottom.
2nd several pages: 210mm high x 297mm wide. Licence is positioned nicely near the bottom.
3rd several pages: 297mm high x 210mm wide. Licence is positioned at about the same position from the top as the second group
4th several pages: 210mm high x 297mm wide. Licence is positioned nicely near the bottom.
5th several pages: 297mm high x 210mm wide. Licence is positioned at about the same position from the top as the second group

PS By setting the watermark from the top left, we could print it at the top of each page, which could therefore work for different paper heights.

You might try clearing your caches. If that number field is indeed set to a negative integer, it will measure from the bottom of the page.

PDF. Hm. There are people who know it better than me who will agree that PDF syntax is one of the biggest and wildest Wild Wests out there (and I live in the wildest Wild West)! Nevermind everyone’s unique PDFs, but consider how they made them (which software), how they read them (which software) and how they parse them (which software) and how they might be altered/incremented/corrupted. This is a recipe for billions of possible combinations of possible disaster, and the reason this plugin works for some PDFs and not others. Sounds like it’s working for your PDF, but we need to determine if this is your server/settings, or a bug. I’d love to see a screenshot of your settings since you have my email. Thank you!

Just set your Y-adjuster to a small number like 10 if you want it close to the top of the page.

Ouf, that was easy!

10 is too near my heading, so I made it 8. Beautiful – on all pages.

Not bad for a free product!

PS Many thanks for your advice and quick response.

You’re welcome @loireau. Take care and best of luck with your project!