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[David Teller <address@hidden>]

     Hi Paul,
 Thanks for the PS trick. That's a bit too low-level for my tastes,
though. I'd rather use the graphics primitives of TeXmacs for this
purpose, if I can find the documentation.

Cheers,
 David


On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 22:33 +0000, Paul Zarucki wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I don't know how to do this in Texmacs, but, if you save the document
> as a postscript file, it is not too difficult to add some postscript
> code which overprints/underprints a watermark (or anything you want,
> e.g. a letterhead). Then use ps2pdf or Ghostscript to convert the
> postscript file to PDF or just print it directly.
> 
> For example, the following postscript fragment prints a diagonal
> "Confidential" across the page.
>         gsave
>         1 1 scale
>         /Helvetica_Bold findfont
>         120 scalefont setfont
>         100 100 moveto
>         55 rotate
>         0 setlinewidth
>         (Confidential) true charpath stroke
>         grestore
> Open the postscript file in a text editor and insert the above code
> after every line containing the string "%%EndPageSetup" (which occurs
> at the start of each page).
> 
> You can use a shell script to automate the process. In combination
> with Samba you can even create a virtual printer to do the job - just
> print to the virtual printer and out pops your document (or postscript
> or PDF file) with the desired watermark on every page! (We use this
> method for printing on headed notepaper where the printer only
> contains plain paper).
> 
> Paul.
> 
> David Teller wrote: 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> >  Firstly many thanks to the TeXmacs team. Not only has it succeeded in
> > getting my father away from Word, but it has also succeeded in getting
> > me away from LaTeX, which wasn't an easy task.
> > 
> > I'm currently looking for a way to print some watermark on pages (e.g.
> > the word "Confidential", printed in light gray, at a 60 degrees angle,
> > in the background). Is there a way to do this? I'm not afraid to code a
> > short macro for this purpose.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >  David
> > 
> > 
> >   
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