Peter & Muriel Gorman wrote:
Hi Doug Thompson,
thanks for your reply, I have now inserted the graphic for use as my
watermark and selected the proper wrap. I do not seem to be able to
reduce the intensity of the image, and it dominates the page. How
does the colour feature assist with this?
If you've used a graphic rather than a text frame then you can change it
to a watermark via the Picture Toolbar -> Graphic Mode drop list. If the
Picture toolbar doesn't pop up (floating or docked) when you select
(click on) the graphic then go to View -> Toolbars and make sure that
the Picture Toolbar is checked.
Once you have the toolbar opened choose "Watermark" from the Graphic
Mode drop list. This will lower the intensity of the graphic. This
doesn't make it transparent - just de-saturates(?) the colours, so you
may want to set the [text] wrap to flow through the graphic and also
select the "In Background" option in the wrap dialog. Text will then
flow through and on top of the graphic Alternatively (or additionally),
you can adjust the transparency of the graphic from the Picture toolbar.
I couldn't find the Graphic Mode or Transparency options in the Format
-> Picture dialog, which makes them hard to find if the toolbar is
turned off.
You can also set a page background graphic via Format -> Page ->
Background(tab) to do the same thing, but I you would need to create the
graphic beforehand as you want it to appear in the page. I don't think
you can change the intensity of page background graphics.
Ross
thanks,
Peter Gorman
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Doug Thompson wrote:
Peter & Muriel Gorman wrote:
I am using Open Office 2.0.4 I am trying to find a function in Open
Office, that can denote whether a page is a COPY, DRAFT,
Confidential, etc. Is there a link somewhere that pre-prints these
captions onto the page prior to printing. I have located the
watermark feature, but this does not permit the user to type a
caption, and when it inserts a graphic, there is no control on the
level of transparency to allow any text to be viewed clearly.
You can use a frame to hold your watermark. That allows you complete
control of content, font, size, and transparency (color, actually) plus
positioning on the page.
Once you insert the frame, select the Wrap property "In background" to
cause it to be completely overwritten by the document text.
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DougT
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