pdftk or alternative to print watermarks ?

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Sep 9 08:13:10 PDT 2010


Niels S. Eliasen wrote:

> 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.. ;-)
> 

.... just done.

Helge





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