[users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2011-05-20 Thread Frederic Trobaugh
I was looking through old posts, and I had a thought on this A text object can be easily created to produce a watermark for a single page. All you would need after that is a simple macro called Paste to All Pages. By simple I mean simple for someone who knows how to build macros. I have

[users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2011-05-20 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 20/05/2011 15:32, Frederic Trobaugh ha scritto: I was looking through old posts, and I had a thought on this A text object can be easily created to produce a watermark for a single page. All you would need after that is a simple macro called Paste to All Pages. By simple I mean simple

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 27/08/2010 01:16, Twayne wrote: I think this has been covered, but I'd like to reiterate just in case it was missed. Many printers have watermark capability. Both my Epson inkjet and HP Color Laser have it. They both put DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL defaults, or whatever words you want up to

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 27/08/2010 01:16, Twayne wrote: I think this has been covered, but I'd like to reiterate just in case it was missed. Many printers have watermark capability. Both my Epson inkjet and HP Color Laser have it. They both put DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL defaults, or whatever words you want up to

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-27 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/8/23 jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com: Twayne wrote: OO.o should really have a watermark application feature so it's easer to do. Issue # 36421 Issue #36421 summary: ”MailMerge: Step5 will not activated for further run” Doesn't seem to be the same problem… Regards Johnny Rosenberg

[users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-27 Thread NoOp
On 08/26/2010 08:23 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.26 18:49 -0500, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Try this Format Page Background ... (etc) Yes, that is the page-oriented approach that several posters to this thread have described - with or without a Page

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-26 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.08.25 18:56 -0500, NoOp wrote: That doc/example [OOoDraftDoc.odt] was using fontworks. Here is one [OOoDraftDoc_Frame.odt] with a watermark frame. To view the frame style: View|Navigator|Text Frames|Frame1 - right click select 'Text Frame|Edit' and you will then see

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-26 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 8/26/2010 2:38 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.25 18:56 -0500, NoOp wrote: That doc/example [OOoDraftDoc.odt] was using fontworks. Here is one [OOoDraftDoc_Frame.odt] with a watermark frame. To view the frame style: View|Navigator|Text Frames|Frame1 - right click

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-26 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.08.26 11:26 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: ... [after inserting a frame, either before or after selecting a Frame style], Going to the Paragraph styles, we see that the text is already styled as Frame contents. What does /that/ mean? There are other styles like that,

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-26 Thread webmas...@krackedpress.com
On 08/26/2010 05:56 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: snip That's an intriguing idea, but I do not see a clean way to do it (which would of course be part of the process of making a frame-based watermark). That probably reflects my ignorance about details of using Writer. Assuming we can accept a

[users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-26 Thread Twayne
In news:4c76edf4.5090...@krackedpress.com, webmas...@krackedpress.com webmas...@krackedpress.com typed: On 08/26/2010 03:29 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 22/08/2010 20:37, AG wrote: I must say that this seems like a very over involved rigamarole to go through each time I might want to

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-26 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.08.26 18:49 -0500, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: Try this Format Page Background ... (etc) Yes, that is the page-oriented approach that several posters to this thread have described - with or without a Page style. The point of this sub-thread is to use the

[users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-25 Thread NoOp
On 08/23/2010 04:10 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.23 01:38 -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.22 21:25 -0500, NoOp wrote: ... There's a frame for that...

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-24 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 23/08/2010 22:04, John Kaufmann wrote: [cut] Of course, as the watermark, being a graphic instead of the text we are used to with other word processing packages, is related to page orientation at least two versions are required, one for Portrait and one for Landscape. This dependency also

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-23 Thread jonathon
Twayne wrote: OO.o should really have a watermark application feature so it's easer to do. Issue # 36421 Personally I don't do issue submits anymore. The reason why Issue #36421 was closed is one of the best reasons why submitting issues is a waste of time. jonathon

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-23 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.08.23 01:38 -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2010.08.22 21:25 -0500, NoOp wrote: I'm looking to add the watermark Draft diagonally in the background ... ... you can put a graphic in the background, so the trick is to create a graphic of your required

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-23 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.08.23 08:37 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: ... I don't see any indication that the Watermark frame is selected in your OOoDraftDoc.odt - in fact, I don't see how the Draft watermark is done, even though it's right in front of me. Could you provide pointers? Is this

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-23 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 23/08/2010 17:24, John Kaufmann wrote: [cut] Is this attachment relevant to this thread? I created it a few years ago as a simple tutorial for water marking. Well, yes, of course it's relevant. See the title: this thread is about how to do watermarks, and that attachment was an example of

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-23 Thread John Kaufmann
Peter, In a message dated 2010.08.23 15:06 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 23/08/2010 17:24, John Kaufmann wrote: [cut] Is this attachment relevant to this thread? I created it a few years ago as a simple tutorial for water marking. Well, yes, of course it's relevant. See the title:

[users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-22 Thread John King
AG wrote: Hi list I'm looking to add the watermark Draft diagonally in the background of a document in OOo 3.2.1 Writer, on a GNU/Linux Debian testing machine. So far I can add a background color or graphic, but apparently not text (using Format/ Page/ Background, which is the only

[users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-22 Thread Twayne
In news:201008222016.42867.johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk, John King johnmking...@yahoo.co.uk typed: AG wrote: Hi list I'm looking to add the watermark Draft diagonally in the background of a document in OOo 3.2.1 Writer, on a GNU/Linux Debian testing machine. So far I can add a background

[users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-22 Thread NoOp
On 08/22/2010 12:37 PM, AG wrote: On 22/08/10 19:42, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:46 22/08/2010 +0100, Aonly Gonly wrote: I'm looking to add the watermark Draft diagonally in the background of a document in OOo 3.2.1 Writer, on a GNU/Linux Debian testing machine. So far I can add a

Re: [users] Re: Watermarks in Writer

2010-08-22 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2010.08.22 21:25 -0500, NoOp wrote: I'm looking to add the watermark Draft diagonally in the background ... ... you can put a graphic in the background, so the trick is to create a graphic of your required text - and Draw will do that for you. Here's how: ... [detailed