<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Zbigniew Nitecki,<div><br></div><div>I use the following and it works for me:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">\usepackage{draftwatermark}</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> \SetWatermarkText{\includegraphics[width=30cm,height=20cm]{title.eps}}</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">\SetWatermarkLightness{0.9}</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">\SetWatermarkColor[rgb]{0.80,0.80,0.80}</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Hope this helps,</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Best, Tine</p><br><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 29 Apr 2023, at 00:28, Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 28, 2023, at 4:24 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu> wrote:<br><br>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. <br>Can anyone suggest an effective quick-and-dirty way to accomplish this? My document style is memoire and I use xcolor for colors.<br><br>I came across the draftwatermark package and thought it would be the solution to my problem. <br>The simple command <br>\usepackage{draftwatermark} <br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>However, if I try to modify it, specifically<br>if I write the command as<br> \usepackage[color={[gray](0.5)}, text=PRELIMINARY]{draftwatermark} <br>in the same position (as the last of the \usepackage commands) in the small test file,<br>instead of printing “PRELIMINARY” as desired, the error message <br>“missing \begin{document}” is generated in the console, the labelled quote inside the paragraph gets messed up, and the text is preceded by “,2”.<br>If I restrict myself to <br> \usepackage[text=PRELIMINARY]{draftwatermark} <br>it doesn’t recognize the option: I get the default behavior but the paragraph is preceded with “text=PRELIMINARY”.<br>If I augment the simple \usepackage{draftwatermark} command supplemented with <br> \DraftwatermarkOptions{text=PRELIMINARY} <br>either before or after \begin{document} the output is the same, because the command \DraftwatermarkOptions is an undefined command. <br>Any ideas how to proceed?<br><br><br><br><br>Zbigniew Nitecki<br>Department of Mathematics<br>Tufts University<br>Medford, MA 02155<br><br>telephones:<br>Dept. (617)627-3234<br>Dept. fax (617)627-3966<br>http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/<br></blockquote><br>Howdy,<br><br>Hmmm... the following example seems to work (well, the text is too large) and is basically copied from the documentation:<br><br>% !TEX program = pdflatex<br>\documentclass{article}<br>\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}<br>\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}<br>\usepackage[color={[gray]{0.5}},text=PRELIMINARY]{draftwatermark}<br>\usepackage{mathptmx}<br>\usepackage{lipsum}<br>\title{Sample document for the draftwatermark package}<br>\author{}<br>\begin{document}<br>\maketitle<br>\section{One}<br>\lipsum[1-3]<br>\section{Two}<br>\lipsum[4-6]<br>\section{Three}<br>\lipsum[7-9]<br>\end{document}<br><br>I've got a fully updated TeX Live 2023 originally installed by MacTeX.<br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br>herbs2@mac.com<br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: https://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/index.html<br>List Reminders and Etiquette: https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/<br>List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx<br> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/<br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: https://www.tug.org/mactex/index.html<br>List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>