jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Jackson) (01/16/91)
Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 14-Jan-91 DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL Overlay sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS (517) > I am looking for a style file to use with LaTeX that will overlay a > large diagonal light gray "DRAFT" or "CONFIDENTAIL" across my output > generated with Tom Rokicki's dvips. Advice on some other method to > achieve the same result would also be welcome. > NOTE: I'm operating under VMS! I cannot unpack shell archives! Wow, and I thought I was the only person left in the world running VMS. ;-) Have you considered DEC's SPRINT product? It's a security enhancement tool that does what you need for both PostScript and text files. It's exremely customizable via a layout file consisting of a simple set of instructions. If you use DEC's ScriptPrinter system, you'll recognize this as an extension of that symbiont. This means that if you have non-DEC PostScript printers, the product might not work for you. I got information on it at Fall DECUS. It's a "customer supported" product available through a program I'd never heard of before, so your neighborhood DEC rep. might have trouble dealing with it. The address they publish on their information sheet is: Digital Equipment Corporation Linda K. Hitchcock Security Products Marketing Consultant 2525 Augustine Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408) 748-4564
dupuie@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Scott T. Dupuie) (01/16/91)
In article <YbYpshm00VQo8iVkoX@andrew.cmu.edu> jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Jackson) writes: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 14-Jan-91 DRAFT or >CONFIDENTIAL Overlay sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS (517) > >> I am looking for a style file to use with LaTeX that will overlay a >> large diagonal light gray "DRAFT" or "CONFIDENTAIL" across my output >> generated with Tom Rokicki's dvips. Advice on some other method to >> achieve the same result would also be welcome. > A simple way to achieve this is by executing the following \special command at the beginning of your file: \special{!userdict begin /bop-hook{gsave 200 30 translate 65 rotate /Times-Roman findfont 216 scalefont setfont 0 0 moveto 0.7 setgray (DRAFT) show grestore}def end} This command should write a light DRAFT across each page in the document, although I have not tried it yet. To write confidential, simply replace (DRAFT) with (CONFIDENTIAL). This trick is documented in the files provided with Tom Rokicki's DVIPS. It is not in the man page, but in a separate documentation file. I don't recall the name. Scott T. Dupuie The Ohio State University Dept. of Electrical Engineering Columbus, OH 43210 dupuie@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu
derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) (01/18/91)
dupuie@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Scott T. Dupuie) writes: > \special{!userdict begin /bop-hook{gsave 200 30 translate > 65 rotate /Times-Roman findfont 216 scalefont setfont > 0 0 moveto 0.7 setgray (DRAFT) show grestore}def end} I found that the .7 setgray is too dark, so I set it to .99 which is dark enought to be highly noticable but not so dark that it is hard to read the normal text. To change to preliminary or confidential or another long word, 1) I changed the font size to 100 to allow the word to really stand out. 2) The 200 30 should be changed to 150 100 so that the starting point is down far enough to the lower left to allow the word to be printed properly. 3) The rotation of the text needs to be changed to allow the word to print from corner to corner. I changed the 65 rotate to 55 rotate. -- = John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group = = e-mail: ...uunet!motcid!derosaj, motcid!derosaj@uunet.uu.net = = Applelink: N1111 = =I do not hold by employer responsible for any information in this message =
joe@ima.isc.com (Joe Chapman) (01/19/91)
John DeRosa writes: >To change to preliminary or confidential or another long word, [...] >2) The 200 30 should be changed to 150 100 so that the starting > point is down far enough to the lower left to allow the > word to be printed properly. You could also calculate the starting point, like this (or, rather, its LaTeX equivalent): %! % center a string on a page at 45 degrees % assumes 8-1/2 by 11 page, portrait mode % -- center at (306, 396) % assumes that this will be used in a save/restore context % /diagonal { newpath 0 0 moveto dup true charpath flattenpath pathbbox 2 index sub 2.828 div /ycor exch def 2 index sub 2.828 div /xcor exch def pop pop 306 xcor sub ycor add 396 xcor sub ycor sub moveto 45 rotate show } def % test: /Times-Bold findfont 72 scalefont setfont .9 setgray (MARKETING DRECK) diagonal showpage -- Joe Chapman joe@ima.isc.com