Watermarker
Watermarker is a powerful tool for watermarking image batches. This software is capable of adding watermark of Texts of different color and fonts, Shape of different size and color, images as logo which can be scaled before adding.

Features
  • It can be used in many ways like captioning the image, making greetings, labeling images etc.
  • This software is a powerful tool for watermarking image batches.
  • The Software supports popular image formate like jpg, tif, gif, png,bmp & raw images from Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fujifilm, Sony, Pentax, Leica.
  • Adding watermark of Texts of different color and fonts, Shape of different size and color, images as logo which can be scaled before adding.
  • This software is easy to use.
  • you can preview the watermarked images before actually watermarking the image.
  • The software produces web compatible (96 dpi) image in output.
  • The software handles multi page tiff documents.
  • The software can provide output in JPEG and PDF formats.

System requirements
  • Minimum JRE version is 1.6
  • Preferably 1024 x 768 resolution. You need it for evaluating the picture.


Watermarker on an eComStation machine with Open JDK


Installing Watermarker
Download the file Watermarker 3.0 Binary.zip. Create a folder (directory) "watermarker" or something similar which fits your needs. Open the "Watermarker 3.0 Binary.zip" file, go into the subdirectory and copy the contents to the new folder "watermarker". There is also a manual for downloading. It is a pdf file.

The used Watermarker.cmd file
Watermarker works very well with Open JDK in OS/2-eCS. I have made a Watermarker.cmd file with the following contents; 
@echo off
set path=[drive: java]\JAVA160\bin
set BEGINLIBPATH=[drive: java]\JAVA160\bin
set CLASSPATH=
[drive: watermarker]
cd [drive: watermarker]\watermarker
java -Duser.home=[drive: watermarker]\watermarker -Xmx512m -jar WaterMarker_3.0.jar 2>watermarker-bugs.txt
I use 2 separate folders (directories), one for Java and one for Watermarker with the files created by this program. The references used in the cmd file;

  • [drive: java] = drive with Java
  • [drive: watermarker] = drive with Watermarker

should be replaced by real drive letters. Adjust the file from the distribution below, ie. different drive and directories (maps). Save Watermarker.cmd and copy it to the watermarker directory (map).

Create a new program object or copy it from the file below. Specify the path and file name: "[drive: watermarker]\watermarker\Watermarker.cmd". In the tabpage Session check the boxes "OS/2 window", "Running as an icon" and "Close Window to end program". In the tabpage General you can enter the name "Watermarker". The download also has a nice OS/2 icon.

Parameters / options explained
  • The statement "-Duser.home=[drive: watermarker]\watermarker" will ensure that Watermarker will save all necessary files in own directory instead of saving them in the home directory.
  • The specification "-Xmx512m" comes from the manual. The "-Xmx512m" indicates the maximum limit. The maximum varies if you use the program with raw pictures and can be as much as "-Xmx1024m".
  • The addition "2>watermarker-bugs.txt" ensures that errors are saved in the file "watermarker-bugs.txt". The 2 in "2>" is not a typo! Don't be alarmed that this file will never be 0 bytes. The program dumps also its log into this file.

Download
In the file you can find the above command file (all drive letters are on set to C:) and an OS/2 Watermarker icon: Watermarker-ecs.zip.

revision July 6, 2015