Trying to create a drawing watermark within Pro/E 2.0, IntraLINK-driven. This watermark should only appear on WIP drawings. I'm replacing the default drawing templates with ones that contain a Drawing Program. I don't have a problem with the program itself. The layer within which the watermark symbol resides is turned off and on by the Drawing Program just fine. It's dependent upon the release level of the drawing. It's just that the symbol itself, being a watermark-type of thing (large and splattered across the whole entire drawing) is intrusive to any detailer who uses pre-selection (which is basically everybody). To make it less so, I made the symbol entities the color of the default drawing graphics-window background. You can't see it at all if your cursor is anywhere outside of the graphics area. I know we can turn pre-selection off, but everyone uses it. And I just know that most designers will find it annoying and get rid of it. (I'm a designer, and I want to!) There are several ways to do that, the most expedient is clicking on it and hitting 'delete'. It cannot be blanked on a Layer 'cause that's the way I'm controlling its function. Is there some way to lock the symbol from user interaction? Or maybe there's some other way to create a parameter-driven watermark? Bethought me to try adding the entities to one of two formats, but the Drawing Program is limited in what it can control and replacing formats is not something it can handle. The Drawing Program CAN handle a Note, but all fonts -no matter what light color one uses- print out boldly -contrary to my wish for a faded-in-the-background-but-I'm-still-legally-here watermark. Any suggestions? Any help, puhleeeeze? Anything that doesn't involve magic words or the blood of a virgin chicken? T'anks muchly . . .
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