Comments on: How To Add a Custom Watermark in OpenOffice.org

By: Boonieman555

Boonieman555 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:35:54 +0000

Try one of these methods from Lodahl’s blog
http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-put-watermark-text-on-your.html

By: sturt

sturt — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:29:12 +0000

This does seem unnecessarily difficult – all this for a “simple” watermark. Windows Paint does not allow rotation of the image other than 90, 180 or 270 degrees. The “strawman” relating to resources is totally wrong – this IS a concern – already Ooo takes forever when I am working in a large file – say with many pages and with embedded photos etc. The last thing I need is more processor effort to insert a “simple” DRAFT watermark.

Why is it so hard?

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:32:47 +0000

@Aren – Is it possible to format the text color (highlight the text, right-click and choose “format character.” Then set the font color and send it to back?

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:26:20 +0000

Isn’t this argument a strawman, these days when harddrives run to hundreds of Gigabytes? How do you imagine the other office suites make watermarks? I guess somebody could develop a set of templates for this feature. In fact it would be very simple to do it. Now you have gotten me thinking…

By: anon

anon — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:58:27 +0000

Creating an image is NOT convenient when you want something simple and common like a “draft” or “confidential” watermark. An image is also just a waste of resources for a simple text watermark.

By: Aren

Aren — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:46:57 +0000

Another work around – Note, in oo.o 3.3 I can create text, put a box around it, and select the box around it, and then click format> arrange> send to background. However, if I do this, I cannot get the text color to change such that I could make it light gray.

This seems an easy way to make the watermark, so could anyone tell me a away to make the text light gray, and then send it to the background so one could type right over it?

THX.

By: Aren

Aren — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:48:18 +0000

Also, I tried the work around for Ian that Sergio liked for open office 3.2. it is not working.

By: Aren

Aren — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:45:07 +0000

Using office 3.3 and about to lose my mind.

When I use the browse button, Windows 7 makes my graphic files invisible and unavailable so that I cannot upload the graphics for the watermark.

I have tried all these file types so far to no avail:
.odp
.ott
.jpg
.ott
.rtf
.bmp
.jif [.odt inserts]
.gif

By: Sergio

Sergio — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:39:01 +0000

Very nice tip,worked great,thanks!

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:06:57 +0000

OK, in OOo 3.2, it works to Insert > Picture > [then place it where you want it on the page]
Then right-click on the picture, choose Wrap and then “In Background.”
The documentation for OOo 1.1 suggests also anchoring the image to page as opposed to the default which is “anchor to character.”

A background colour stays on the .doc document, but this seems to be the way to keep a graphic image on the page as a watermark. The only problem is you can select it and move it around on the page. If you do this accidentally, you might have some odd effects.

Reference:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/Word-to-OOo.html

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:54:28 +0000

I just tested in OOo 3.2 and I found the same issue. Let’s look around for a better solution and update this post.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:06:37 +0000

No good when you want to save as doc. The watermark seems to be lost

By: braculus

braculus — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:41:38 +0000

yes this works wolf! thanks for the help.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:14:58 +0000

Mama,
You just need to type a text line into a blank graphic file. Then your “graphic” looks like a text entry

By: mama

mama — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:56:39 +0000

i want text type water mark not picture type

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:44:18 +0000

you all rock! I’ve been looking for this solution for a while!