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February 22, 2010
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Putting a temporary note in a format

  • February 22, 2010
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We want to put the note "DO NOT RELEASE" in big letters across a drawing, so that we can send PDFs to people downstream and ensure they don't use drawing fully until we're ready to release it. Then when we release it we'd like to be able to remove the "DO NOT RELEASE" note. I want to do this at the level of the format so all our drawings start out this way. Just putting a note on the format is no good because you can't edit it or remove it when it shows up on the drawing. If put the note in a table it is possible to do this. Because I wanted the text at an angle the lines of the table are in an awkward place; in fact all I really want to see is the text, not the lines of the table. Is it possible to hide the lines of a table? Or is there another way I can automatically put some text in a format that can be changed later?
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9 replies

February 22, 2010
You can setup a watermark in the PDF as it is created. We just manually put in the not released note on the drawing.
1-Visitor
February 22, 2010

"Eric Mills" wrote:

You can setup a watermark in the PDF as it is created.

24-Ruby III
February 24, 2010
I think you can create the table with one cell only inside the format file, size of the table will be the same as size of the format. Border of the cell will overlay the border of the format. Then you can put callout of &release_status parameter into the cell and set its text properties. The last thing is to create release_status parameter inside your models. Good luck. Martin Hanak