RE: Draft copy circulation

Subject: RE: Draft copy circulation
From: Lyn Worthen <Lyn -dot- Worthen -at- caselle -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:17:47 -0600


I used to have to do this on Word files all the time, for similar reasons.

In your Word document:
1) Open the Header/Footer
2) Insert some WordArt (from the Graphics toolbar - button with a tilted
letter "A" on it). Choose whatever style/font you prefer. You can type
something like "Draft" or "Preliminary" etc.
3) Depending on the style of WordArt you've selected, you'll want to format
it to use a very light color (rt. click on the text, select "Format WordArt"
and play with settings on the "Colors & Lines" tab until you get something
that still allows you to read the document text on top of it. I seem to
recall using pale blue/green/yellow (which prints out in grayscale, but also
stands out well on the softcopy) or a -very- light gray.
4) Grab the handles on the WordArt and resize it to be a nice, big, obvious
block of text in the middle of your page.
5) If you have different First/Odd/Even page headers/footers, you'll need to
copy your finished "watermark" into the other headers.

Since Word sees it as part of the header, rather than a watermark, it
shouldn't give you any problem with including it in your .PDF


I haven't had occasion to do this with Frame, but you may be able to
accomplish something similar by inserting an appropriate graphic into the
Master pages.

good luck,

L



-----Original Message-----
From: Archimede Ziviello
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:58 AM

Hello folks,

Here is some hardware information:

PC
Windows 2000
Framemaker + SGML 6.0
Adobe Acrobat 5.0
HP8100 DN (local network printer)

I want to know if there is an easy way to -- [when distilling a document
for draft copy review] -- place a simple text watermark "draft copy" or "not
for publication." My current printer driver is not supporting it. The
printer duplexes and it does do that nicely.

Reason: my reveiw process is international and can involve lots of different
folks whom I have not and may not meet. I want to avoid and prevent
"squirreling" of draft documents. It happens. My population of reviewers
is growing and I my only challenge is creating a easy watermark. So I do
not have to keep playing with printer settings and risk not watermarking the
document, I would like to simply select the watermarking printer in Frame
and do a quick "save as."

...<snip>...

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