[OS X TeX] watermarks

[Alain Schremmer]

I have of course absolutely no idea but I am eagerly waiting for the answer.

—schremmer

> On Apr 28, 2023, at 17:24, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
> 
> I have a long (500+ pp) book project that I want to watermark before distributing it locally. None of my standard references (Latex Companion, Latex Grphics Companion, Herbert Voss’s PSTricks) seem to have any information about watermarks.
> Can anyone suggest an effective quick-and-dirty way to accomplish this?  My document style is memoire and I use xcolor for colors.
> 
> I came across the draftwatermark package and thought it would be the solution to my problem.  
> The simple command 
> \usepackage{draftwatermark} 
> does result in the default: the word “DRAFT” in fairly faint gray tilted 45 degrees in the middle of each page.  But it’s a bit too faint and small for me.
> 
> I tried this package with options on a small test file (using the documentclass article) involving one page consisting of a paragraph with a labelled quote inside.  Of course the bare-bones version works equally well on this test file. 
> 
> However, if I try to modify it, specifically
> if I write the command as
>   \usepackage[color={[gray](0.5)}, text=PRELIMINARY]{draftwatermark} 
> in the same position (as the last of the \usepackage commands) in the small test file,
> instead of printing “PRELIMINARY” as desired, the error  message 
> “missing \begin{document}” is generated in the console, the labelled quote inside the paragraph gets messed up, and the text is preceded by “,2”.
> If I restrict myself to 
>   \usepackage[text=PRELIMINARY]{draftwatermark} 
> it doesn’t recognize the option: I get the default behavior but the paragraph is preceded with “text=PRELIMINARY”.
> If I augment the simple \usepackage{draftwatermark} command supplemented with 
>  \DraftwatermarkOptions{text=PRELIMINARY} 
> either before or after \begin{document} the output is the same, because the command  \DraftwatermarkOptions  is an undefined command.
> 
> Any ideas how to proceed?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
> 
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