esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) (06/07/89)
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?
Thanks (as usual, in A Dvance)
Elliott Frank ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00 (408) 746-6384
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[the above signature may or may not be repeated, depending upon some
inscrutable property of the mailer-of-the-week.]tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson) (06/08/89)
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? Here it is. If you put this into a MSWord document header, it will print on all pages of a document. If you put it on a page, it will print on just that page. Note that once this is types in, you must select the entire postscript script, and then go to the Define Styles menu and type the word "PostScript" in the style box. (this is a pre-defined but normally hidden style for word.) /Times-Bold findfont 96 scalefont setfont .95 setgray newpath 275 200 moveto 30 rotate (DRAFT) show Good luck.
tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson) (06/08/89)
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
zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) (06/08/89)
This is not the version that was posted a month ago; if anybody is sending
that to the original poster please mail to me also. This is just the code
to actually do it, one could wrap it in a redefined showpage to do it for
each page in a postscript file.
This code takes an arbitrary string and an arbitrary rectangle. There is
some strange interaction with the setscreen stuff that makes the orientation
of the screen a little off from the orientation of the text. If ANYBODY can
suggest a way to fix this I would be quite grateful!
Anyway, you translate to the lower left corner of the rectangle, then push
the coordinates of the upper right corner and the text onto the stack. Then
you call the "sash" operator. See the test program at the end.
%!PS-Adobe
% width height (string) sash
% ----
/sash {
gsave
3 1 roll 2 copy exch atan
neg currentscreen 3 1 roll pop 3 -2 roll setscreen
currentscreen pop neg 5 1 roll pop
2 div exch dup 3 1 roll 2 div exch translate
/Helvetica-Bold findfont dup setfont 4 1 roll
1 index stringwidth pop div 2 index cos div .8 mul
4 -1 roll 1 index scalefont setfont 3 -1 roll rotate
exch dup stringwidth pop -2 div 3 -1 roll -2.5 div moveto
.9 setgray show
grestore
} bind def
% main program
gsave
25 25 translate
500 700 (EXECUTIVE) sash
newpath
0 0 moveto 0 700 lineto 500 700 lineto 500 0 lineto closepath
stroke
grestore
showpage
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Ben Cranston <zben@umd2.UMD.EDU> (Kingdom of Merryland UniSys 1100/92)
Copyright 1989 (you may redistribute ONLY if your recipients can).