Working with Watermarks

Dynamic and Embedded PDF documents support watermarks (i.e. the Watermark ancillary output) when generating a Tagged PDF.

In the Adobe Acrobat tag tree, the watermark appears as a tag of a <Div> > <P> > <Span> tag within the tag tree.

In the Adobe Acrobat tag tree, the watermark will contain the following alternate text as a child of a <Div> > <P> > <Span> tag within the tag tree and will be read once per document:
  • "There is a watermark on this document with the text of <insert text here>" (derived from WatermarkText within the Watermark ancillary output)

Note: Watermarks that are generated as images do not contain alternate text and as a result, will not pass an accessibility check.
The watermark will appear in the Adobe Acrobat Content Panel as a child of Container <Span> and the subsequent watermark value.

If generating a merged PDF containing multiple watermarks (i.e. one watermark per document), each document's watermark will appear once and will appear as a child of a <Div> > <P> > <Span> tag within the tag tree.