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The Watermark Element

The Watermark element designates a "watermark" image to be overlaid on top of all images in the catalog. This watermark appears in response to getimage requests. A catalog may have 0 or 1 Watermark elements. The Watermark element contains the following editable attributes:

name

The name of the image file to be used as a watermark. This must correspond to a file in <Express Server installation directory>/ImageServer/etc/watermarks.

NOTE: Watermarks do not appear in thumbnail images.

Example: The WatermarkElement

The following specifies that the image <Express Server installation directory>/ImageServer/etc/watermarks/MrSIDLabel.sid shall appear as a watermark on all images extracted from the catalog "foo."

<Catalog name="foo">
...
<Watermark name="MrSIDLabel.sid"/>
...
</Catalog>