pdftk or alternative to print watermarks ?

[Niels S. Eliasen]

On 2010-09-09, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at acm.org> wrote:
> Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
>
>> hi
>> anyone that knows how to integrate "pdftk" with CUPS ??
>> 
>> reason is .. I need to be able to print header,footer and a
>> watermark(basically a complete page) before printing the actual text on
>> the page, and wondered whether "pdftk filename background background_page
>> outputfile" would do the trick???
>> 
>> Alternative ideas are also most welcome .....
>> 
>
> Some time ago I hacked the pstops filter to add some features, among them
> generating watermarks by extending the page-label handling.
>
> If you are interested, I could gibe you the source code (based on CUPS 
> 1.3.5, but it will compile and run as well under cups 1.4.x.
>
> Helge
>
why yes! absolutely...
please mail the code.. ;-)

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kind regards/mvh
niels