{"id":3701,"date":"2015-06-04T09:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2015-06-04T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T16:16:27","slug":"thwart-unwanted-sharing-with-automatic-watermarking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/thwart-unwanted-sharing-with-automatic-watermarking\/","title":{"rendered":"Thwart unwanted sharing with automatic watermarking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my spare time (<i>Ed. note<\/i>: ha, right!), I like to write screenplays. Last Friday I finished the first draft of my latest one, which is a moment of joy and terror. Joy because it\u2019s <i>finally<\/i> done. Terror because now I have to show it to people for feedback\/judgment.<\/p>\n<p>To share it, I set up a Onehub Workspace and sent out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/video-send-secure-links-to-share-your-files-with-anyone\/\">secure links<\/a>. If I was a big-time Hollywood writer and there were millions of dollars at stake on this script (<i>Ed. note:<\/i> I\u2019m not, \u00a0there aren\u2019t) I could have also enabled extras like <a href=\"https:\/\/onehub.desk.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/319538-using-secure-links-providing-access-to-guest-users-\">password protection and link expirations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But if I wanted to go that extra privacy mile, I would enable <a href=\"https:\/\/onehub.desk.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/283681-watermarking-your-documents\">automatic watermarking<\/a>. Onehub\u2019s watermarking feature is an awesome way to help thwart unwanted sharing of your documents, and it is incredibly easy to set up.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Subscribers to the Onehub <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/pricing\">Business plan<\/a> have access to automatic watermarking. When turned on, the following items appear in transparent red lettering on every page of your document:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The word \u201cCONFIDENTIAL\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The email address of the person accessing the file, or the IP address of the person you have granted guest access to<\/li>\n<li>The date the file was accessed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/watermarkexample.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onehub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/watermarkexample.jpg\" alt=\"Sample Document with Watermark\" width=\"1103\" height=\"918\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1859\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If someone comes in at the Creator, Downloader or Printer <a href=\"https:\/\/onehub.desk.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/283687-understanding-roles-permissions\">permission level<\/a>, they will receive the watermarked, copy protected PDF. It cannot be edited and the watermark cannot be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Automatic watermarking works with the following file types:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PDF<\/li>\n<li>Word<\/li>\n<li>Powerpoint<\/li>\n<li>Excel<\/li>\n<li>Pages<\/li>\n<li>Keynote<\/li>\n<li>Numbers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watermarking can help dissuade invited parties from unauthorized sharing of content because their email address is now emblazoned across the page. Onehub is a great way to get your material out into the world exactly the way you want. Now if only I could get the dev team to enable a filter that only let\u2019s me see the glowing reviews of my work. (<i>Developer note<\/i>: Good luck with that)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my spare time (Ed. note: ha, right!), I like to write screenplays. Last Friday I finished the first draft of my latest one, which is a moment of joy and terror. Joy because it\u2019s finally done. 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