Package draftwatermark: no watermark on the first page

Question

I need to add a watermark on all pages of a latex document but the first.

Currently, I'm using the draftwatermark package, but I haven't suceeded yet.

Any advice or suggestion?

I tried the xwatermark package, as suggested here, but it came out that it is not compatible with other packages I'm using.

You can modify this answer, it will work in your case. Can you manage to make it work? Let me know here. — Alenanno, Feb 04 '16 at 08:49
I received a notification from a comment of yours. It worked then? — Alenanno, Feb 04 '16 at 10:33
@Aleanno: Yes, thanks! I tried to write down the solution I adopted as a comment, but it was too long. So, I added an answer. — PieCot, Feb 04 '16 at 11:32
I see that, but if the linked question helped you, then your answer is the same as the other one and this question is a duplicate. — Alenanno, Feb 04 '16 at 11:33
Ok, it can be deleted if you think it is not useful for other users, no problem. — PieCot, Feb 04 '16 at 11:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

Thanks to @Alenanno: I tried the solution he suggested and it worked like a charm! I slightly modified his code, adding a \watermarkon macro and now watermarks can be easily enabled/disabled for every single page.

This is my code:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{exam}
\usepackage{draftwatermark}
\usepackage{etoolbox} 

%%%% for the 1 page %%%%
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\usepackage{blindtext}  
\SetWatermarkAngle{45} 
\SetWatermarkLightness{.8} 
\SetWatermarkFontSize{10cm} 
\SetWatermarkScale{8} 
\SetWatermarkText{\tt{DRAFT}}

%%% Macro to disable watermark
\makeatletter
\def\watermarkoff{%
        \@sc@wm@stampfalse
}
\makeatother

%%% Macro to enable watermark
\makeatletter
\def\watermarkon{%
        \@sc@wm@stamptrue
}
\makeatother


\begin{document} 

%%% no watermark on the first page
\watermarkoff
%%%% for the 1 page %%%%
\includepdf[pages={1},offset=0 0, delta=0 0, scale=1]{./lshort}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


%%% watermark on the second one
\watermarkon
\Blindtext
\newpage

%%% no watermark on the third page
\watermarkoff
\Blindtext
\newpage

%%% watermark on the remaining pages
\watermarkon
\Blindtext
\newpage
\Blindtext
\end{document}

And this is the result:

The first page (lshort) is the cover page of The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e.

Package draftwatermark: no watermark on the first page

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