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RE: [Q] Creating a draft "watermark" in FO
- From: David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>
- To: "Bang, Steinar" <Steinar dot bang at tandbergtv dot com>,docbook-apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:00:40 -0600
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: [Q] Creating a draft "watermark" in FO
I'd suggested of using a background image, but was told that's cheating.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200107/msg00034.html
I believe the thread ended with the conclusion that FO doesn't offer a
non-cheating way to do it. If you do choose this cheat, then making it
conditional on some attribute is easy enough.
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bang, Steinar [mailto:Steinar.bang@tandbergtv.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:46 AM
> To: 'docbook-apps'
> Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: [Q] Creating a draft "watermark" in FO
>
>
> Back in the good old LaTeX days, it was possible to give
> a command line argument to the DVI to PS filter, to make
> it print out "Draft" in large grey letters on the
> background.
>
> Does anyone have a piece of XSL that would look at the
> status attribute of the top level element, and if it
> has the value "draft", print "Draft" in large grey
> letters?