Michael Adams [mailto:[email protected]] was the second (at least...) to send some sample "watermark" pages using the original poster's graphic to demonstrate...
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] Water Marks > > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 11:37, Manuel Barros wrote: > > Not exactly. I need this you have done but with a very > smooth water mark > > image of the glider. > > That can be achieved with MS Word but apparently not with > Open Office. > > Thanks anyway for your efforts on trying to help. > > Regards. > > Manuel > > By Smooth do you mean blurred, or opaque? > > Try these. > > -- > Michael Guys, I'm really not complaining here - it's great that you quickly show an example or two of what the OP might be attempting. However... I'd like to suggest the following, for benefit of both the OP and anybody who browses the archives next month, looking for similar info (like maybe me...): Instead of just some meaningless sample text on the sample page, how about replacing that text with a) numbered list of the steps you used to accomplish the task (very general, no detail, for actions done outside OOo (such as in GIMP or Photoshop); more explicit detail for the OOo actions b) detailed list (if not included above) of all the possibly-relevant settings for Page format, page breaks or section breaks, any use of header or footer, kind of object you imported, how it was placed, how it was anchored, how text flow properties were set, and so on. It might also be useful to include different elements on the page to show how they interact with each other and the "watermark" graphic - say, a screen-capture (to show some of the dialog settings that I mentioned), text box, column break, MARGINS, and other elements that would be part of a normal document page. For example, Michael, your faded glider reaches the two side edges and the bottom edge, but starts a half centimeter/quarter-inch down from the top. Is that just because it happens to be that size when proportionally stretched? Or is the top boundary somehow tied to the way it is anchored? Other? I'd even add a second and third page to show that the "watermark" either repeats on each page, or doesn't.... and include some 'overtext' saying what was happening - is the glider on page 2 an automatic background on each new page, or did you have to place it by repeating the same manual steps as for page 1... and so on. Yeah, I know. More work. :-) I'd do it myself, except that I'm not happy with how my similar effort turned out, last week, so I don't want to expend effort telling people how to do something badly. Ahem. (my story, and I'm sticking to it) Regards, - Kevin PS: What comedian used to do that Camp Grenada song? He pronounced it "Hello muddah, hello faddah". This silly bumpf inserted by outgoing server: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
