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I have a long (500+ pp) book project that I want to watermark before distributing it locally. None of my standard references (Latex Companion, Latex Grphics Companion, Herbert Voss’s PSTricks) seem to have any information about watermarks.
<div class="">Can anyone suggest an effective quick-and-dirty way to accomplish this? My document style is memoire and I use xcolor for colors.</div>
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<div class="">I came across the draftwatermark package and thought it would be the solution to my problem. </div>
<div class="">The simple command </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>\usepackage{draftwatermark} </div>
<div class="">does result in the default: the word “DRAFT” in fairly faint gray tilted 45 degrees in the middle of each page. But it’s a bit too faint and small for me.</div>
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<div class="">I tried this package with options on a small test file (using the documentclass article) involving one page consisting of a paragraph with a labelled quote inside. Of course the bare-bones version works equally well on this test file. </div>
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<div class="">However, if I try to modify it, specifically</div>
<div class="">if I write the command as</div>
<div class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>\usepackage[color={[gray](0.5)}, text=PRELIMINARY]{draftwatermark} </div>
<div class="">in the same position (as the last of the \usepackage commands) in the small test file,</div>
<div class="">instead of printing “PRELIMINARY” as desired, the error message </div>
<div class="">“missing \begin{document}” is generated in the console, the labelled quote inside the paragraph gets messed up, and the text is preceded by “,2”.</div>
<div class="">If I restrict myself to </div>
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<div class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>\usepackage[text=PRELIMINARY]{draftwatermark} </div>
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<div class="">it doesn’t recognize the option: I get the default behavior but the paragraph is preceded with “text=PRELIMINARY”.</div>
<div class="">If I augment the simple \usepackage{draftwatermark} command supplemented with </div>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> \DraftwatermarkOptions{text=PRELIMINARY}
<div class="">either before or after \begin{document} the output is the same, because the command \DraftwatermarkOptions is an undefined command.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
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<div class="">Any ideas how to proceed?</div>
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