[pdftex] Re: Background text

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:19:57PM +0000, Arun Kejariwal wrote:

> Hi,
>    The following code creates a background name "Arun" with pslatex .. but 
> pdflatex does not. How to get around this?
> 
> % Background text
> \AtBeginDocument{\special{!userdict begin
> /split {(pt) search { 3 1 roll pop pop } if cvr} def
> [...]

Why should this work? pdfTeX does not contain a PostScript
interpreter.

Look at packages such as everyshy, eso-pic or similar:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=watermark
`Watermarks' on every page

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>