Watermark for all pages in a book

Hi Ben:

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

~Barb

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

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

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