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Article #1064Re: add water-mark to printed output
From: Helge Blischke
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:51
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:51
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Miguel wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using a hylafax linux server which is using postscript files from the > clients to send their faxes. Now, I just want to add a water-mark 'faxed' > to this document before returning it to the client via email. > > Is it possible to add a water-mark to this file ? > Is their a tool for it ? > If you feel tough enough to do a little bit PostScript programming, it can be done by adding the watermark using the BeginPage or EndPage procedure in the page device dictionary. As an example look inti the PPDs for recent HP PostScript printers which usually offer such a feature. If all that sounds like a marsian dialoct to you, perhaps consider installing CUPS as your printing system on the linux server. CUPS offers something like a watermark (as the page-label option). Helge -- H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de H.Blischke@srz-berlin.com H.Blischke@acm.org
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