How-to Insert Watermarks

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Table of Contents

1. Create a watermark on a page	3

2. Watermarks on several pages	5

3. On a paragraph	6

4. Credits	7

5. License	7

Watermarks are images that are placed on the background of a document. This could be your company logo, some text, or any other drawing that you want to place there...

We'll start by inserting one into a page, then on all the pages, then into a paragraph.

1. Create a watermark on a page

In the menu Insert, choose Graphics. It doesn't matter whether the image comes from a file or a scanner. If you choose to do so from a file, browse to your file, select it and click on Open.

Your image will be inserted into your document as is.

Click on the pull down menu in the Style and choose Watermark, and your image will appear as a watermark.

In order for you to be able to write on top of this image and for it to be considered as a background for a page, right mouse button click on the image and choose Graphics or click on the button Properties in the toolbar.

In the window that appears, change the Anchor so that it's set to page and also change the position Vertical so that the anchor is centred in the page,

Now click on the tab Wrap, choose the Through wrap and tick the box Background.

Click on OK, and now you can enter your text on the page.

2. Watermarks on several pages

In order to put your watermark on several pages, you have to register it in your page format. The best thing to do is to save your image with the watermark style and then include it in your page as the background.

Open the Draw module in OpenOffice.org, and from the Insert menu, insert your image.

You will find the same tool bar as the one shown above, so change the Standard style to Watermark,

Without undoing the selection of your image (if you've done so in the meanwhile, click on it once again to select it), go to the menu File, choose Export. Under file type, choose bmp, jpg, png... or the format you want, then save the file.

Now come back to your Writer document

Under Format -> Page, choose the tab Background. In the pull down menu Type, choose Graphic. Then click on the Browse button and browse through the file system until you find your file. (NB : you can always create a specific directory for your watermarks). Choose your image and click on Open, which will bring you back to the initial dialog box :

The only thing left to do now is to position the image and click on OK.

Now your graphic is inserted into each page, as a watermark.

3. On a paragraph

For a paragraph, you do exactly the same thing as for a page, except that you choose Format -> Paragraph and the tab Background. In this way, you can put different backgrounds for each paragraph if you wish.

4. Credits

Author : Sophie Gautier

Thanks: To Guy Capra for his support and constant encouragement.

Integrated by : N/A

Last modified : 14 May 2002

Contacts : OpenOffice.org Documentation http://fr.openoffice.org

Translation : Alex Thurgood

English Screen Shots: Alex Fisher

5. License

Appendix

Public Documentation License Notice

The contents of this Documentation are subject to the Public Documentation License Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may only use this Documentation if you comply with the terms of this License. A copy of the License is available at http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html.

The Original Documentation is How to insert Watermarks. The Initial Writer of the Original Documentation is Sophie Gautier Copyright (C) 2002. All Rights Reserved. (Initial Writer contact(s):sgauti@cenatrin.bf).

Contributor(s): Alexander Thurgood, translator.

Portions created by Alexander Thurgood are Copyright (C) 2002. All Rights Reserved. (Contributor contact(s): alex.thurgood@free.fr).

NOTE: The text of this Appendix may differ slightly from the text of the notices in the files of the Original Documentation. You should use the text of this Appendix rather than the text found in the Original Documentation for Your Modifications.

OpenOffice.org Documentation Project How-To

http://fr.openoffice.org	5

Sophie Gautier

2002-05-14T14:35:10

Scott Carr

Alex Fisher