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From: 880716a@aucs.uucp (Dave Astels)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: draft copies of documents
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.184840.22590@aucs.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 90 18:48:40 GMT
References: <9007091154.AA19113@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: 880716a@aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <9007091154.AA19113@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MMAC@vax.oxford.ac.uk (The_Edible_Dormouse) writes:
>[...] a postscript file to draw in large grey
>characters the word 'DRAFT' diagonally across the page and you have automatic
>draft documents.
>[...]
>% 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 am new to TeX.  I got this to work for a one pager.  Questions:
- how do I make the "DRAFT" notice 1) lighter gray & 2) behind the actual
  document (it now overlays & obscures it)
- how do I get this on each page of a many page document.

Thank you

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