Thanks to those who responded to my "watermark" request. I must not
have made myself clear enough that I knew I could do the PostScript method in
the header, because I got some responses that said I could do it with
PostScript in the header. Some told me where to find the code and some even
sent me the code for doing "Draft".
My "Draft" example was just so that people knew what I was talking
about--I really wanted to be able to use any arbitrary graphic. While again,
I know (think) that I could convert the graphic to PostScript and include it
in the header, it becomes somewhat more complex because, other than
extracting the text from an EPS(F) version of the picture generated by
MacDraw Pro or using that capability with the new print drivers, I don't have
a good way of generating real, arbitrarily-positionable(?) PostScript code to
use in the header. I would really just like to place the picture in the
header.
Two of the responses I received lead me to believe that this was
still possible, although without being able to see the combined image except
in the page layout view...
Dwight Lemke writes...
"... If you want to print to a quickdraw device, you create the
watermark in a drawing package, rotate it 45 degrees, and adjust
the header so it overprints the text. This WILL appear in page
layout view."
Tonya Engst writes...
"... So, if you want text to overlap some item in Word (4 or
5), you can stick the item in the header and set the top margin
(Format/Document) to an exact measurement (you have to set it
to exact so that the header doesn't push the text down too far).
In Word 5, you can choose exact from a popdown menu; in Word
4, you enter a negative number in the top margin box, say -1
for "exactly one inch." You can then stick postscript code in
the header to print a largish, grayed out DRAFT (or whatever
text you desire) or you can put a graphic (or a large, bordered,
table cell to make a full-page border) or what have you in the
header. Word (like most Mac programs
) can't do display PostScript,so if you use the PostScript code method - as Andy notes - you
can't see the result of the code until you print to a PostScript
printer. If you use non-PostScript code - a graphic of some sort
perhaps - you are likely to see a decent representation in Print
Preview, though not normal or page layout view.
Conclusion? For Andy (or anyone like Andy) to solve the problem,
you can either:
1. Use a different program...
2. Consider making a graphic having the word DRAFT and placing
that in the header.
3. Experiment with frames, but prepare for frustration.
..."
Well, after following Tonya's instructions carefully (and not using a
"framed" graphic in the header) just positioning the graphic using the ruler,
"Format/Section..." and "Format/Document" I was able to get essentially what
I wanted: arbitrary graphic, easy positioning and perfect printing (yellow
objects come out a nice light gray)--I'm just not able to see both graphic
and text simultaneously on the screen.
Here is my result ...