I'm generating a document with good old latex, and I'd like to be able to add a figure as the background to each page, something like a watermark, or the background capability of html. I'd be happy to use a post-processing step to do this. I've been looking at the ps utilities, but there's nothing that looks like it will work. Any ideas? TIA, Bill
From: Bill Mills-Curran <subssn594@charter.net>
I'm generating a document with good old latex, and I'd like to be able to add a figure as the background to each page, something like a watermark, or the background capability of html.
I'd be happy to use a post-processing step to do this. I've been looking at the ps utilities, but there's nothing that looks like it will work.
Any ideas?
Make a PostScript graphic to fill the page, and use any graphic package you can find ( \usepackage{epsfig} works for me ) to tell TeX to put a tiny little box in the page header, which contains your big graphic. TeX doesn't care if your graphic (or anything else) is bigger than the box, it just needs the box to know how much space to leave, but you, you pervert, want to print something and leave no space for it. It should work fine in a technical sense, but promise me the background will be very light and sparse, or I shall revile and shun your document. -- Keith
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Keith Wright wrote:
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:55:46 -0400 From: Keith Wright <kwright@gis.net> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] overlay/watermark???
From: Bill Mills-Curran <subssn594@charter.net>
I'm generating a document with good old latex, and I'd like to be able to add a figure as the background to each page, something like a watermark, or the background capability of html.
I'd be happy to use a post-processing step to do this. I've been looking at the ps utilities, but there's nothing that looks like it will work.
Any ideas?
Make a PostScript graphic to fill the page, and use any graphic package you can find ( \usepackage{epsfig} works for me ) to tell TeX to put a tiny little box in the page header, which contains your big graphic. TeX doesn't care if your graphic (or anything else) is bigger than the box, it just needs the box to know how much space to leave, but you, you pervert, want to print something and leave no space for it. It should work fine in a technical sense, but promise me the background will be very light and sparse, or I shall revile and shun your document.
-- Keith <snip>
I found something that was made for the task... draftcopy. It's meant to put the word "draft" as a watermark on each page. One of the options is to change the word "draft" to something else. (Text is all I wanted on the watermark.) Thanks, Bill
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