Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 22405
Feature request: An easy way to create watermarks with text
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:21 UTC
I have just spent a few hours working out how to create a watermark with the word "Draft" on a document. The OOo help screens didn't talk about TEXT watermarks at all and only referred to Color or Graphic watermarks. I wanted the word "draft" to be diagonally across the page and the only way that I could see to be able to do that would be to create a graphic mage with the diagonal text and insert it as a watermark. This is needlessly complicated for WP users and most of our users would need help in doing this. One way that I did find was: 1. Select/Create document 2. Insert-Frame. Select size/position/anchor point etc if required. 3. Select Borders tab. 4. Choose Line-Style-None. 5. Choose Wrap tab. 6. Select "Through" and "In background". 7. Click OK. 8. Click once in the new frame. Type required text and format it how you would like. 9. Highlight text, right click on it and select Character. 10. Select Font Effects tab and choose font colour. Select font colour. Grey 10% - 30% would probably be ideal. However, with this method I have not found a way of moving the text so it writes diagonally across the page. Again, this is needlessly tedious and difficult for most users. Watermarks are very common in business circles and we use the often here. A simpler and easier method - perhaps a wizard or the like - would be a very good feature.
reassigned to bh
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Please check relation to issue 18771! Rainer
Not related to 18771. This issue is concerned only with improving the existing methodology for creating text based page backgrounds. Trying to tie it to the M$ kluge of doing this via the header field as describe in 18771 is a mistake that MUST not be perpetuated.
this is actually a duplicate of issue 2466, but since this issue has more votes I keep it and mark the other one as duplicate. Setting version to that of issue 2466, setting keywords, OS,platform ALL
*** Issue 2466 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Any news about this enhancement?
*** Issue 18275 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Yes, I was trying the same as described and is a pain, but to improve the requirement, should have the option to put a Fontwork object as a water mark, this can be a very potent option that covers the simple text option. I imagine that: I put a fontwork and I right click on my fontwork and have the option of "put as a water mark" or "In background" and even the option to be a background for all pages or only odd o even pages. Of course in the background page's properties has into the combobox the fontwork option and I can specify a new fontwork (then a wizard or fontwork dialog) or a existing one in the same document or import a fontwork object from another OO document. The transparency and other things (position, rotation, etc) can be done via fontwork's object properties.
*** Issue 49301 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
The new printerpullpages (released in OOo 3.3) has many good enhancements and it should be improved by the possibility of inserting simple text watermarks (maybe in a new tab "Watermarks"). Are the developers of printerpullpages aware of this issue?
Integrating this feature in the new Print Dialog would be great. If it's possible to export it from there as PDF it would be Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious :P