[OS X TeX] draftcopy "weirdness"

[Michael Sharpe]

On Apr 9, 2011, at 2:38 PM, John B. Thoo wrote:

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> On Apr 9, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Peter Vamos wrote:
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>> At 04:44 +0100 9/4/11, Alan Munn wrote:
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>>> That's because the draftcopy package uses Postscript specials to place the text.  From the docs:
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>>> "Currently this package works only for Postscript and not for PDF, sorry."
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>> Alternatively, use the pdfdraftcopy package, available from
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>> 	<http://sarovar.org/frs/?group_id=52&release_id=97>
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>> Surprisingly, this is not on my TeXLive 2010 distribution. Licensing issues perhaps?
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> Thank you, Peter.  I tried it and it works as advertised.  Unfortunately, it does not offer a "timestamp" option.  Any suggestions for how I can include a timestamp with "pdfdraftcopy"?  Thanks.
> 
> ---John.
> (who receives the digest)
> 

\usepackage[draft]{pdfdraftcopy} 
\draftstring{DRAFT \today}

Michael