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Adding a Watermark to PDF Output

To add a watermark to the PDF output of a DITA Map PDF - based on XSL-FO transformation scenario, follow this procedure:

Create a customization directory (if you have not already done so).
Create a cfg\common\artwork directory structure in your customization directory and copy your watermark image to that directory (for example, C:\Customization\cfg\common\artwork\watermark.png).
Rename the Customization\catalog.xml.orig file to: Customization\catalog.xml.

Open the catalog.xml in Oxygen XML Editor and uncomment this line:

<!--uri name="cfg:fo/xsl/custom.xsl" uri="fo/xsl/custom.xsl"/-->

The uncommented line should look like this:

<uri name="cfg:fo/xsl/custom.xsl" uri="fo/xsl/custom.xsl"/>

Rename the file: Customization\fo\xsl\custom.xsl.orig to: Customization\fo\xsl\custom.xsl.

Open the Customization\fo\xsl\custom.xsl file in Oxygen XML Editor to overwrite two XSLT templates:

The first template is located in the XSLT stylesheet DITA-OT-DIR\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\xsl\fo\static-content.xsl. Override by copying the original template content in the custom.xsl and specifying a watermark image for every page in the PDF content, using a block-container element that references the watermark image file:

<fo:static-content flow-name="odd-body-header">
       <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute"
          top="-2cm" left="-3cm" width="21cm" height="29.7cm"
          background-image="{concat($artworkPrefix, 
'Configuration/OpenTopic/cfg/common/artwork/watermark.png')}">
         <fo:block/>
       </fo:block-container>
      <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__body__odd__header">
          <xsl:call-template name="insertVariable">
              <xsl:with-param name="theVariableID" select="'Body odd header'"/>
              <xsl:with-param name="theParameters">
                 <prodname>
                     <xsl:value-of select="$productName"/>
                 </prodname>
                 <heading>
               <fo:inline xsl:use-attribute-sets="__body__odd__header__heading">
                      <fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="current-header"/>
               </fo:inline>
                </heading>
               <pagenum>
             <fo:inline xsl:use-attribute-sets="__body__odd__header__pagenum">
                    <fo:page-number/>
             </fo:inline>
           </pagenum>
        </xsl:with-param>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </fo:block>
  </fo:static-content>
        
</xsl:template>

The second template to override is located in the XSLT stylesheet DITA-OT-DIR\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\xsl\fo\commons.xsl and is used for styling the first page of the output. Override it by copying the original template content in the custom.xsl and adding the block-container element that references the watermark image file:

<xsl:template name="createFrontMatter_1.0">
      <fo:page-sequence master-reference="front-matter" 
xsl:use-attribute-sets="__force__page__count">
          <xsl:call-template name="insertFrontMatterStaticContents"/>
          <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
              <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute"
                  top="-2cm" left="-3cm" width="21cm" height="29.7cm"
                  background-image="{concat($artworkPrefix, 
'Configuration/OpenTopic/cfg/common/artwork/watermark.png')}">
                  <fo:block/>
              </fo:block-container>
  <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter">
       <!-- set the title -->
    <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter__title">
     <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$map/*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')][1]">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$map/*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')][1]"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$map//*[contains(@class,' bookmap/mainbooktitle ')][1]">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains
(@class,' bookmap/mainbooktitle ')][1]"/>
          </xsl:when>
          <xsl:when test="//*[contains(@class, ' map/map ')]/@title">
              <xsl:value-of select="//*[contains(@class, ' map/map ')]/@title"/>
          </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
             <xsl:value-of select="/descendant::*[contains
(@class, ' topic/topic ')][1]/*[contains(@class, ' topic/title ')]"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </fo:block>
                    
   <!-- set the subtitle -->
   <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains
(@class,' bookmap/booktitlealt ')]"/>
                    
      <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__frontmatter__owner">
         <xsl:apply-templates select="$map//*[contains
(@class,' bookmap/bookmeta ')]"/>
      </fo:block>
                    
      </fo:block>
                
   <!--<xsl:call-template name="createPreface"/>-->
                
      </fo:flow>
        </fo:page-sequence>
        <xsl:if test="not($retain-bookmap-order)">
            <xsl:call-template name="createNotices"/>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

Edit the DITA Map PDF - based on XSL-FO transformation scenario, go to the Parameters tab, and set the customization.dir parameter to point to the location of your customization directory.