Libre Writer - watermarks - shading

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#1

I'm trying to help a friend create watermarks in Libre Writer.

He's wondering if there is any way to adjust the shading of a
watermark created in Libre Writer?

He wants to play around with different shades to decide which shading is best.

Has anyone played around with watermarks?

Can you please share any thoughts/suggestions?

Thanks so much,

Charles.

#2

I don't see any way to do this in a text (Writer) document itself - at least, if you use the Background facility to insert the watermark. If your watermark is a graphic, you probably need to shade it some other software before inserting it.

If you need a text watermark - such as "Draft", perhaps? - try this:
o Start a drawing (Draw) document.
o Click the Text icon in the Drawing toolbar and drag a text box in your drawing.
o Type the required text.
o Adjust size, orientation, and so on - including perhaps setting the text colour to a pale grey.
o Right-click the text box and go to Convert > | To Bitmap.
o Right-click again and go to Save as Picture... to save just the required item (not the complete Draw document) in a suitable format.
o In your text (Writer) document, go to Format | Page... | Background.
o For As, select Graphic and browse to your saved watermark.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#3

I would have thought using a Frame would be better. Am I missing something here?

#4

I have been using as Brian suggests for my DRAFT documents. Once you get the shading right, especially if you intend to print, it is simple. I think I use about a 10% grey.
Steve

#5

Hi all,
I have reported in AOo Spanish forum a way to do it.
https://forum.openoffice.org/es/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8998
Translation.
"
Well I think there are some relatively simple way to do this.
Inserting objects in the header or footer, they appear on all pages of that
page style.
- While we are in Writer activate the Draw toolbar.
- With the cursor in the header / footer sheet, inserting virtually any Draw
object, for almost all them you can add text.
- Inserting a text object, write the text and format them.
- We can rotate the object as we are interested.
- Place it to background.

It seems that sometimes in order to select directly the object you have to
stretch the head with line breaks until some object is selectable from the
header.

With this we can edit the text of the object and resituate as interested.
"
Miguel Ángel.