[Tex/LaTex] Additional ‘Draft’ watermark using printwatermark and xwatermark packages

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I am using the packages printwatermark and xwatermark to add a watermark in background this way:

\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}
...
\newwatermark[allpages,color=red!50,angle=45,scale=3,xpos=0,ypos=0]{TEST}
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}

If I compile just once, there is no problem. But If I re-compile without deleting auxiliary files previously generated (for example the toolchain Latex-Bibtex-Latex) then I get an additional watermark 'Draft' in background. But I did not define it anywhere in my file…

I tried to modify the way I define my watermark like:

\newwatermark[allpages,color=red!50,angle=45,scale=3,xpos=0,ypos=0, textmark=TEST]{}

for example, and to define it inside \begin{document} ... \end{document} but the problem is still there.

Does anybody already encountered this kind of problem?

Best Answer

The problem is due to the fact that I was using the additional package

\usepackage{background}

Removing this line solves the problem.

So if the packages printwatermark and xwatermark are used, the background package should not be.

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[Tex/LaTex] xwatermark: watermark skipping pages

This is to show you another option with powerful background package. Just adding \usepackage{background} will add the the Draft text.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{background}
\usepackage{lipsum}%used to generate false content


\begin{document}

%starts page numbers at i
\pagenumbering{roman}

NOTICES:\par
\lipsum[1-2]
\clearpage

\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\listoffigures
\clearpage

%starts page numbers at 1
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\section{Demo Section}
\lipsum[1-2]
\subsection{Demo Subsection}
\lipsum[1-2]
\subsubsection{Demo Subsubsection}
\lipsum[1-2]
%includes figure in list of figures
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{PlaceHolder}
\centering
\caption{Demo Graphic}
\label{fig:figure1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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You can customize the background contents with \backgroundsetup

\backgroundsetup{
scale=15,
color=gray!40,
angle=45,
opacity=1,
contents= {Draft}
}

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contents= can be anything like a tikzpicture or any picture/text.

If you don't want the background for just one page like title page, use \NoBgThispage in that page.

%\thispagestyle{empty}
\NoBgThispage
This is the title page
\clearpage

[Tex/LaTex] Draft watermark in both margins using the background package

You can use the tikzpagenodes package to easily access the textarea as a node.

Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{background}
\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\backgroundsetup%
{   angle=0,
    opacity=1,
    scale=1,
    contents=%
    {   \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay, scale=3]
            \fontsize{100}{120}\selectfont
            \node[text=gray!50!red,rotate=90, above=1cm] at (current page text area.west) {DRAFT 1};
            \node[text=gray!50!blue,rotate=-90, above=1cm] at (current page text area.east) {DRAFT 2};          
        \end{tikzpicture}
    }
}

\begin{document}

\lipsum \lipsum

\end{document}

Output

Edit 1: You can also place the "Draft" watermarks automatically in the middle of the margin. I assume you want them to be centered at the text area rather than the page area. While for most cases it will be almost the same, I constructed an extreme case to show the differences.

Here, the top margin is only 5mm while the bottom margin is 90mm. This leads to current page.west (orange dot) being at a much lower position than current page text area.west (green dot). So if one simply computes the midpoint via the calc library's (A)!0.5!(B) one arrives at a quite low postition (blue dot). To work around that, one can use a special syntax:

In general, the meaning of (p |- q) is “the intersection of a vertical line through p and a horizontal line through q.”

With this syntax, one can compute the position of a coordinate that runs vertically through current page.west and horizontally through current page text area.west (black dot). Then one can use the midpoint of this position and current page text area.west to find the final position where the watermark will be placed (red dot).

Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[inner=30mm, outer=50mm, top=5mm, bottom=90mm, twoside]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
\usepackage{background}

% for coordinate computations
\usetikzlibrary{calc}

% allows for arbitrarily large font sizes
\usepackage{lmodern}

% dummy text
\usepackage{lipsum}

\backgroundsetup%
{   angle=0,
    opacity=1,
    scale=1,
    color=black,
    contents=%
    {   \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
            \fontsize{80}{108}\selectfont
            % nodes for illustration purposes
            \node[circle,minimum width=4mm,fill=green] (PTAW) at (current page text area.west) {};
            \node[circle,minimum width=4mm,fill=orange] (PW) at (current page.west) {};         
            \node[circle,minimum width=4mm,fill=red] (BMW) at ($(current page text area.west -| current page.west)!0.5!(current page text area.west)$) {};
            \node[circle,minimum width=4mm,fill=blue] (GMW) at ($(current page.west)!0.5!(current page text area.west)$) {};
            \node[circle,minimum width=4mm,fill=black] (GW) at (current page text area.west -| current page.west) {};
            % the watermarks
            %\node[text=gray,rotate=90] at ($(current page text area.west -| current page.west)!0.5!(current page text area.west)$) {DRAFT 1};
            \node[text=gray,rotate=-90] at ($(current page text area.east -| current page.east)!0.5!(current page text area.east)$) {DRAFT 2};          
        \end{tikzpicture}
    }
}

\begin{document}

\lipsum \lipsum

\end{document}

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