[OS X TeX] draftcopy "weirdness"

John B. Thoo jthoo at yccd.edu
Sat Apr 9 17:38:14 EDT 2011


On Apr 9, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Peter Vamos wrote:

> At 04:44 +0100 9/4/11, Alan Munn wrote:
> 
>> That's because the draftcopy package uses Postscript specials to place the text.  From the docs:
>> 
>> "Currently this package works only for Postscript and not for PDF, sorry."
> 
> Alternatively, use the pdfdraftcopy package, available from
> 
> 	<http://sarovar.org/frs/?group_id=52&release_id=97>
> 
> Surprisingly, this is not on my TeXLive 2010 distribution. Licensing issues perhaps?

Thank you, Peter.  I tried it and it works as advertised.  Unfortunately, it does not offer a "timestamp" option.  Any suggestions for how I can include a timestamp with "pdfdraftcopy"?  Thanks.

---John.
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