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In article <13222@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jonathan@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jonathan Altman) writes:
> One nice tip that was given was how
>to print the word "draft" in a 5% gray on entire pages.

Here are two fragments.  The first uses grey, the second prints
"DRAFT" using an outline font.  I personally like the second much
better. 

Andy Malis <malis@bbn.com>    UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,uunet}!bbn!malis

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%! Procedure to print a light-gray DRAFT on pages
gsave
initmatrix 72 dup scale
/Helvetica-Bold findfont 1 scalefont setfont
(DRAFT) dup
stringwidth pop
4.5 5.5 translate
45 rotate 2 div neg 0 moveto
.95 setgray
show
grestore

%%  This overlay produces a 1 inch
%%  tall DRAFT at a 45 degree angle in the center of the page.
%%  The routine is self-adjusting so any string can be placed in instead
%%  of DRAFT in the above routine and used.
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%!
%% outline font program 
%% Postscript Language Tutorial and Cookbook
%% page 203

/makeoutlinedict 7 dict def
/MakeOutlineFont
 {makeoutlinedict begin
  /uniqueid exch def
  /strokewidth exch def
  /newfontname exch def
  /basefontname exch def

  /basefontdict basefontname findfont def

  /numentries basefontdict maxlength 1 add def

  basefontdict /UniqueID known not
   { /numentries numentries 1 add def } if

     /outfontdict numentries dict def
  
   basefontdict
    { exch dup /FID ne
     { exch outfontdict 3 1 roll put }
     { pop pop }
    ifelse
    } forall
 
  outfontdict /FontName newfontname put
  outfontdict /PaintType 2 put
  outfontdict /StrokeWidth strokewidth put
  outfontdict /UniqueID uniqueid put
  
  newfontname outfontdict definefont pop
  end

} def

% 120 seems to give light enough lettering

/Helvetica-Bold /Helvetica-Outline1 1000 120 div

/Helvetica-Bold findfont dup /UniqueID known
 { /UniqueID get 1 add }
 { pop 1 }
 ifelse

MakeOutlineFont 

gsave
initmatrix 72 dup scale
/Helvetica-Outline1 findfont 1 scalefont setfont
(DRAFT) dup
stringwidth pop
4.5   5.5  translate
45 rotate 2 div neg 0 moveto
show
grestore

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Andy Malis <malis@bbn.com>    UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,uunet}!bbn!malis