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From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Postscript fragment needed
Message-ID: <29563@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 89 08:52:19 GMT
References: <13222@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <13222@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jonathan@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jonathan Altman) writes:
>to print the word "draft" in a 5% gray on entire pages.  I saw the
>tip on how to do this and said "that'd be neat" but didn't save the
>postscript fragment.  Now I have a need to distribute a draft of a

This little fragment can be modified to print whatever you like.  Just
take a look at it as it is pretty simple.  If you are interested in PS,
you might also contact John Sherman at the University of Notre Dame as he
as a nice PostScript learning tool which he developed for designers and
anyone else learning PS...

% Draft marking for documents

% fonts
/t/Times-BoldItalic findfont 96 scalefont def

% 15 0 {exch pop} setscreen

150 500 translate	% position on page

.9 setgray
2 0 moveto
t setfont (Draft) show

-120 -100 moveto
t setfont (Confidential) show

Just put this into a header and make it Style PostScript...


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