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August 2, 2018
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Watermark for all pages in a book

  • August 2, 2018
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Hello all,

FM 2017

In order to have a watermark appear on all pages in a book, must I apply the watermark to all master pages (Right, Left, First) for each document?

Or is there a way that all master pages can have a watermark by default?

Many thanks on advance.

regards,

Ben

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Correct answer Barb Binder

Hey Ben:

You can use a marquee box to select it. With the Select Object tool, put your mouse in the left margin, a bit above the top of the frame that contains "draft" and drag a marquee box over the entire frame. When you release the mouse, anything that was entirely within the marquee box will be selected. Anything that wasn't entirely within the box like the template frame, will not be selected.

~Barb

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Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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August 17, 2018

Hi Ben:

I agree. I normally use Help > Update within FrameMaker, but if you prefer the manual approach, use cumulative update 3.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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RBKearnsJrAuthor
Inspiring
August 17, 2018

"Updates" is grayed out.  I can assume one of two things.  I am at the current release or our company has somehow locked down such....

Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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August 17, 2018

Hi Ben:

I'd say that IT has you locked down. Click on Help > About FrameMaker in the same menu to see the version. The current version of 2017 is 14.0.4.511.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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August 2, 2018

Hi Ben:

A text watermark (as opposed to dropping in an image created in a application like Photoshop or Illustrator) is one of the few times I'd use the text line tool. Text lines are strange little creatures—they can't word wrap automatically and don't take paragraph tags—but you can set up an character tag to control the typeface, size, style and color and they work well for this situation. You can also resize them with the Select Object tool, but be sure to hold the Shift key to maintain the aspect ratio.

Set it up on, let's say, the right master, then copy and paste on the left master and first master. Remember that Fm pastes in the same spot on each new page. Then use File > Import > Formats to import the page layout updates to the other files in the book window.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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RBKearnsJrAuthor
Inspiring
August 14, 2018

Hey Barb,

Did want to confirm something since I do sometimes see an issue with watermark not showing

Here are the steps I took adding watermark to a master page:

Removed frame that was initially created on master page (so page only showed header and footer) -

Created text frame using Text Frame tool

Created "Draft" text (inside of text frame) using Line Text tool (from same menu as shown in previous screenshot)

Applied a Character Style and rotated text box

However - here is what Body page looks like (no watermark).....

Bonus:

I also see this every time I switch from Master to Body page view (annoying) ....

R
RBKearnsJrAuthor
Inspiring
August 15, 2018

Morning, Ben:

Hopefully you are working with incremental back-ups? Or you have another chapter where you have not yet removed the template frame that you can use to re-import the original page layout?

I'm saying that you want to keep the template frame and add the watermark. I'm about to start class, but I don't think any of us recommended removing the template frame—I'll go back and re-read this thread at a break to make sure we didn't inadvertently make that suggestion.

And to clarify, if you opt to remove the template frame from the master pages, but keep it on the body pages, you will always get the remove/retain overrides message as you move from viewing the master pages to viewing the body pages.

I have to run, but will check on you a little later.

~Barb


Thanks Barb,

I appreciate you taking the time to help (and your patience).  I had a backup of the book and files.

Steps now taken:

1) Created a paragraph tag called Draft and applied font size/color

2) Added a text frame to the "First" master page - it shows as I want when viewing the body page (yay)

3) Copied the watermark (text frame) to the Right and Left master pages.

Issue - the watermark only shows on the First page.  It is behind the frame on the Right Page as shown below (whilst viewing the master page, if I drag the watermark to the outside of the frame I can see it once switching to the body view)

fyi - used these parms when copying to each page:

    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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    Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 2, 2018

    Yes, put a separate, disconnected frame in front of or behind main flow frame.

    Rotate frame if you like.

    Place text in frame, add condition (perhaps "Draft"?) and go to town.

    -Matt

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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    Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCommunity Expert
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    August 2, 2018

    Using the master pages is perhaps the most straightforward approach, but you can use conditional text to control display of the watermark itself.

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
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    RBKearnsJrAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 2, 2018

    Hi Matt,

    So, add watermark to every master page behind every body page (i.e. if body page has Left, Right and First pages - add watermark to each master page)?

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