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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Adding a background image


We can add background graphics, such as watermarks, pre-designed letter-heads, or photos to any LaTeX document. This recipe will demonstrate how.

How to do it...

We will use the background package. In this recipe, you can use any LaTeX document. You may also start with the article class and add some dummy text. The code bundle for the book contains full examples. You can download it at http://latex-cookbook.net.

You just need to insert some commands into your document preamble, which means between the \documentclass{…} and \begin{document} commands. It would do the following:

  • Load the background package

  • Set up the background using the command \backgroundsetup, with options

Here we go:

  1. Load the background package:

    \usepackage{background}
  2. Set up the background. Optionally, specify scaling factor, rotation angle, and opacity. Provide the command for printing in the background. We will use the \includegraphics command here, with a drawing of the CTAN lion:

    \backgroundsetup{scale...
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