[OS X TeX] Re: draftcopy "weirdness"

[John B. Thoo]

On Apr 10, 2011, at 12:00 PM, in MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 42, Issue 9, 
people wrote:

Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:57:32 -0400
From: Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com>

> On Apr 9, 2011, at 5:38 PM, John B. Thoo wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 9, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Peter Vamos wrote:
>> 
>>> At 04:44 +0100 9/4/11, Alan Munn wrote:
>>> 
>>>> That's because the draftcopy package uses Postscript specials to  
>>>> place the text.  From the docs:
>>>> 
>>>> "Currently this package works only for Postscript and not for  
>>>> PDF, sorry."
>>> 
>>> Alternatively, use the pdfdraftcopy package, available from
>>> 
>>> 	<http://sarovar.org/frs/?group_id=52&release_id=97>
>>> 
>>> Surprisingly, this is not on my TeXLive 2010 distribution.  
>>> Licensing issues perhaps?
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> I was intrigued: So I copied your header and typed a few words. I  
> went TeXShop 2.38  > Typeset > TeX and DVI and then hit Typeset on  
> the source page and got back my few words duly stamped DRAFT April 9,  
> 2011

I am using TeX-Live 2009 in Mac OS X 10.6.7.  As you can see, if I use "draftcopy" with the "timestamp" option and 'latex'+'divpdf', I get a watermark (on every page) with the word "DRAFT" and, below that, the date and time.

<http://ms.yccd.edu/math/Drafts/ast_draft.pdf>


Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 15:11:43 -0700
From: Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu>

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

That works great to print the day, but not the time.


Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:22:14 +0200
From: Claus Gerhardt <claus.gerhardt at uni-heidelberg.de>

> I found this latex code via Google
> 
> \usepackage{graphicx,type1cm,eso-pic,xcolor}
> 
> \makeatletter
> \AddToShipoutPicture{%
> \setlength{\@tempdimb}{.5\paperwidth}%
> \setlength{\@tempdimc}{.5\paperheight}%
> \setlength{\unitlength}{1pt}%
> \put(\strip at pt\@tempdimb,\strip at pt\@tempdimc){%
> \makebox(0,0){\rotatebox{45}{\textcolor[gray]{0.70}%
> {\fontsize{3cm}{3cm}\selectfont{Final Version}}}}%
> \makebox(-100,-300){\rotatebox{45}{\textcolor[gray]{0.70}%
> {\fontsize{2cm}{2cm}\selectfont{Internal Use}}}}
> \makebox(-500,-0){\rotatebox{90}{\textcolor[gray]{0.70}%
> {\fontsize{0.7cm}{0.7cm}\selectfont{\textcopyright Copyright 2008 - Jean Martina}}}}
> }%
> }
> \makeatother

That's neat.  How do I include a timestamp?  I tried copying some code from draftcopy.sty, but that didn't work for me.  (I'm really not good at this.)


Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:32:27 +0100
From: Peter Vamos <P.Vamos at exeter.ac.uk>

> Additionally, if you want the time on a new line then you have to 
> enclose the draftstring in a parbox or the minipage environment. For 
> example, to approximate what you originally wanted, try this:
> 
> \usepackage[draft]{pdfdraftcopy}
> \draftstring{%
> \begin{minipage}{17cm}
> \begin{center}
> \  DRAFT \quad\today
> \end{center}
> \end{minipage}
> }

That puts the date on a new line very nicely; however, there is no time.

Thank you all for your help.  I appreciate it a lot.

---John.

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