Watermark on Draft document

[tsippel10]

How would I add a watermark that says "DRAFT" across each page of a Quarto document?

[mcanouil]

Depends on what is your document.

If you want it for pdf format then "latex watermark" in favourite search engine will give you what you need.

https://www.duckduckgo.com?q=latex+watermark

If you want it for html format then "HTML watermark" in your favourite search engine.

https://www.duckduckgo.com?q=html+watermark

[chris31415926535]

If you're knitting to HTML output, here are two options that you can further customize. If you put these up top after your YAML it should add a <div> that follows you as you scroll through the document.

This one is a simple floating header:

```{=html}
<div style="position: fixed; top: 0; right: 0; z-index:999;">DRAFT -- PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE</div>
```

This one has bolder text that floats behind the document, more like what you'll see in some Word files:

```{=html}
<div style="position: fixed; margin-top: 10%; margin-left:5%; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 900; color: #CCCCCC; rotate: -45deg; z-index:-999;">DRAFT -- PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE</div>
```

(And for anyone wondering, to get the three backticks to render properly you need to wrap the code block in four backticks.)

[Steinthal]

For PDF I use draftwatermark in my custom eisvogel-PDF extension for Quarto.

You could add

format:
  pdf:
    header-includes: |
     \usepackage[$watermark-options$]{draftwatermark}

For $watermark-options$ see the link above.