Hi John, 

Is the gain of the stamp specifically to flag items as confidential or denied? You might want to look into using tag watermarks. You could set up an informational tag called 'confidential' that, when attached to a document, forces it to include a 'confidential' watermark inside of it that will be there on export and print. More information can be found here: https://www.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/Laserfiche/10/en-US/administration/#../Subsystems/LFAdmin/Content/Tag%20Watermarks.htm

Hi John,

I know this isn't the "ideal" solution, but you could use Workflow with an SDK script to flatten the stamps onto the images so it wouldn't necessarily need to be done manually.

The overall process would involve using the DocumentExporter class to export the flattened page into a memory stream then immediately using DocumentImporter to bring the flattened page back into the document.

I've included some sample code below, but it may need to be adjusted depending on your specific circumstances; this sample checks each page and only flattens pages that have some kind of annotation.

   
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Data;
    using System.Data.SqlClient;
    using System.IO;
    using Laserfiche.RepositoryAccess;
    using Laserfiche.DocumentServices;

    public class Script1 : RAScriptClass102
    {
        protected override void Execute()
        {
            bool success = true;

            DocumentInfo doc = (DocumentInfo)this.BoundEntryInfo;
            doc.Lock(LockType.Exclusive);

            try{
                PageInfoReader pageReader = doc.GetPageInfos();

                foreach(PageInfo page in pageReader){
                    int pageNumber = page.PageNumber;
                    
                    if(page.HasImage && page.GetAnnotations().Count > 0){                        
                        // Create exporter and settings
                        DocumentExporter de = new DocumentExporter();
                        de.IncludeAnnotations = true;
                        de.BlackoutRedactions = true;
                        de.CompressionQuality = 100;
                        
                        // Write flattened document to memory stream
                        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream()){
                            // Export flattened page
                            de.ExportPage(doc, pageNumber, ms);
                            
                            // Remove old page and annotations
                            doc.DeletePage(pageNumber, PageDeletionOptions.ForcePurge);
                            
                            // Create document importer and settings
                            DocumentImporter di = new DocumentImporter();
                            di.OverwritePages = false;
                            di.OcrImages = false;
                            di.Document = doc;
                            di.PagePosition = pageNumber;
                            
                            // Import flattened page
                            di.ImportImages(ms);
                        }
                    }
                }

                // Save changes
                doc.Save();
            }
            catch(Exception ex){
                // Track failures
                success = false;
            }
            finally{
                // Release document
                doc.Unlock();
                doc.Dispose();

                // Set output token to track results in workflow
                SetTokenValue("Success",success);
            }
        }
    }

This was very helpful!

I found (and deselected) the setting in Tools/Options - Images.  See screenshots below.  Added the steps in my workflow that will generate pages, create a new entry for those pages to be moved into, assign field values to the new entry, move pages from the original doc into the new entry, Add the text box "date stamp" which allows the use of business process variables (because it is a text box), renames the entry, and deletes the original pdf.  

Thanks!

Christine

It looks like the annotation is lost if the image is printed from weblink.

That really was what I needed to accomplish.  A permanent text box that appears on the print job from weblink (after being converted to a pdf for printing by weblink).

The saga continues....

Christine