Creating beautiful ornaments

Especially in older books, we can find typographic ornaments such as calligraphic flowers. In this recipe, we will create a greetings card with ornaments.

Getting ready

We will use the pgfornaments package. At the time of writing, it was not yet part of a TeX distribution. This may change soon; until then, you can visit the package homepage (http://altermundus.com/pages/tkz/ornament/index.html) to download and for install information. Install it before you move on.

How to do it...

We will use a KOMA-Script class, because of its arbitrary base font size. The calligra package provides a font with a hand-written appearance:

1. Load the document class, set paper and text dimensions, and choose an empty page style, so there's no page number printed automatically:

   \documentclass[paper=a6,landscape,fontsize=30pt]{scrartcl}
   \areaset{0.9\paperwidth}{0.68\paperheight}
   \pagestyle{empty}

2. Activate T1 font encoding and load the calligra font package:

   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
   \usepackage...