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From: MMAC@vax.oxford.ac.uk (The_Edible_Dormouse)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: draft copies of documents
Message-ID: <9007091154.AA19113@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Jul 90 12:52:00 GMT
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I came up with what I think is a fairly novel use of \special a while ago. Put
a \special into a footer which loads a postscript file to draw in large grey
characters the word 'DRAFT' diagonally across the page and you have automatic
draft documents. I did it using fancyheadings.doc and putting it into lfoot but
this was just so i could have normal footers too.

This is the postscript --- just put it into draft.ps and \special{draft} in the
footer does the rest.

% grey "DRAFT" at 45 degrees
gsave
.80 setgray
%%% set the horiz and vert distances to fit neatly onto page
80 100 moveto
%%% choose size of font
%%% /Helvetica-Bold findfont 72 scalefont setfont
/Helvetica-Bold findfont 144 scalefont setfont
45 rotate
(DRAFT)show
grestore

I could quite get into this postscript lark --- much simpler than TeX :-)

Edi


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