Re: 'draft' background for documents

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From: Tom Johnson
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 17:28

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In article <919D025R327r01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) writes:
>About a month ago, someone posted some Postscript that would print
>'draft' or 'confidential' in large grey letters as the background for
>a text document.
>
>Could some one who saved the technique please e-mail it to me, or re-post
>it?
>
>Elliott Frank      ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00     (408) 746-6384

Here it is.  If you use this with MSWord, you must format it with the style
"PostScript".  If you put it in a document header, it will print on every
page.  If it is put on a page, it will just print on that page.

/Times-Bold findfont
96 scalefont setfont
.95 setgray
newpath
275 200 moveto
30 rotate
(DRAFT) show

Good Luck.

--tomj

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