Xref: utzoo comp.text.tex:4841 comp.lang.postscript:7282 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu!dupuie From: dupuie@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Scott T. Dupuie) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL Overlay Message-ID: <1991Jan16.143012.2274@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: 16 Jan 91 14:30:12 GMT References: <00942A95.657A88C0@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> Sender: news@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu In article jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Jackson) writes: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 14-Jan-91 DRAFT or >CONFIDENTIAL Overlay sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS (517) > >> I am looking for a style file to use with LaTeX that will overlay a >> large diagonal light gray "DRAFT" or "CONFIDENTAIL" across my output >> generated with Tom Rokicki's dvips. Advice on some other method to >> achieve the same result would also be welcome. > A simple way to achieve this is by executing the following \special command at the beginning of your file: \special{!userdict begin /bop-hook{gsave 200 30 translate 65 rotate /Times-Roman findfont 216 scalefont setfont 0 0 moveto 0.7 setgray (DRAFT) show grestore}def end} This command should write a light DRAFT across each page in the document, although I have not tried it yet. To write confidential, simply replace (DRAFT) with (CONFIDENTIAL). This trick is documented in the files provided with Tom Rokicki's DVIPS. It is not in the man page, but in a separate documentation file. I don't recall the name. Scott T. Dupuie The Ohio State University Dept. of Electrical Engineering Columbus, OH 43210 dupuie@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu