Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!rob!elliston From: elliston@rob.UUCP ( Keith Elliston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Postscript fragment needed Summary: hows this.... Message-ID: <360@rob.UUCP> Date: 26 May 89 13:23:32 GMT References: <13222@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <17431@usc.edu> Organization: MSDRL, Merck & Co.,Inc., Rahway, NJ Lines: 43 In article <17431@usc.edu>, minkus@lesath.usc.edu (Bob Minkus) writes: > In article <13222@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jonathan@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jonathan Altman) writes: > >like borders around pages, etc. One nice tip that was given was how > >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 > >user's manual I maintain, and I'd like the sample postscript > >fragment that would do something of this sort. If anybody has any > >bits of postscript that could be included in a MSWord document to do > >this, and even instructions on where to put the fragment, I'd be > > "I'd like that also" :-) > I use this fragment of code (I didnt write it.... but it works...) gsave initmatrix 72 dup scale /Helvetica-Bold findfont 1 scalefont setfont (DRAFT) dup stringwidth pop 4.5 5.5 translate 60 rotate 2 div neg 0 moveto .95 setgray show grestore You can put any characther string in the place of the word draft...(i find that "confidential" is another good word to use...), and then put this into the header of the document. Make sure that you format the text as hidden and of style Postscript (from the PS glossary). Hope that helps.... -Keith =============================================================================== Keith O. Elliston | Usenet: uunet!rob!elliston Senior Information Scientist | Arpanet: rob!elliston@uunet.uu.net Merck Sharp & Dohme Res. Lab. | Bitnet: elliston%rob.uucp@psuvax1 Rahway, NJ 07065 U.S.A. | -or- elliston@biovax =============================================================================== Disclaimer: I can have no OFFICIAL comments about anything........ ===============================================================================