14–2 Macro Text

With "-setTextWatermark" (text watermark) and "-writeText" (text addition), you can use "macro text" to replace execution date of the Command-line application, file names, page numbers, etc.

For details on associated command, see;

Macro Text	Content
#DATE()	Execution date and time. Sets the following date characters between "#DATE(" and ")". Other macro text between this is invalid. All characters other than date characters are output as is.
	[date character]
	YYYY or yyyy	A.D.
	MM or mm	Month (2-digit display)
	M or m	Month
	DD or dd	Day (2-digit display)
	D or d	Day
#PAGE_NUM	Page number
#TOTAL_PAGES	Total number of pages
#FILE_NAME	File name
#FULL_PATH	Full pathname of the file
#TITLE	Document information: Title
#SUB_TITLE	Document information: Subtitle
#AUTHOR	Document information: Author

14–2–1 #DATE() replacement example

In case of May 31, 2021,

#DATE (YYYY MM month DD day) → “May 31, 2021”
#DATE(M/D) → “5/31”

14–2–2 Example of commands

[Executing example commands]

Insert the text "What day is it today? [#Date]" as a text watermark on all pages of test.pdf and output it as out.pdf.

The [#date] part of the text is a macro text, and [Year/Month/Day] at the time of execution is inserted.
Text watermark is inserted with the following settings and arrangement:
- Font name: Meiryo Font (Windows) / IPA Gothic (Linux)
- Font size: 52
- Font color: {R G B}={1.0, 0.0, 0.0}

[Windows]

AHPDFToolCmd80.exe -setTextWatermark -text "What day is it today? ~#DATE(YYYY/M/D)" -colorText 1 0 0 -diagonal -font -name Meiryo -size 52 -d C:\test\test.pdf -o C:\sav\out.pdf

[Linux]

AHPDFToolCmd80 -setTextWatermark -text "What day is it today? ~#DATE(YYYY/M/D)" -colorText 1 0 0 -diagonal -font -name ipa-gothic -size 52 -d /home/antenna/test/test.pdf -o /home/antenna/sav/out.pdf