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 background color or graphic, but apparently not
text (using Format/ Page/ Background, which is the only option F1
seems to provide under search entry "watermarks"). Am I missing
something?
As you say, 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:
o Create a new drawing in Draw.
o Click the T in the Drawing toolbar and drag the cursor in the
document to create a text box.
o Type your watermark text in the box.
o Style text appropriately - possibly enlarging the text and setting
its font colour to light grey?
o Right-click and go to Position and Size... | Rotation | Rotation
angle to rotate the text as required.
o Right-click the text box and go to Convert > | To Bitmap.
o Right-click again and go to Save as Picture... to save as a
graphic. (You are saving just the text box here, not the entire Draw
document.)
o Abandon the Draw document.
o In your text (Writer) document, go to Format | Page... | Background.
o From the drop-down menu next to As, choose Graphic.
o Click Browse... and navigate to the graphic you wish to use.
o Under Type, probably select Position.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
Brian
Thank you once again for your tireless advice and spot on instruction.
Very much appreciated and following your instructions I have been able
to do what I wanted.
I must say that this seems like a very over involved rigamarole to go
through each time I might want to create some watermark text in a
document. Is the OOo development team likely to consider making this
process more straightforward like it is in MS Office where the option is
already hard coded into the interface? This could be added to the OOo
menu as an option to the background options of graphic and color.
Anyway, thank you once again for your very helpful guidance.
Best
AG
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