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I'm trying to create a business card in LaTeX. Accordingly, I want to use textpos to absolutely position the various elements.

For some reason, textpos is just not showing anything. What I want is for it to show things, where I put them. Any suggestions for how to fix this?

Before anyone asks, yes, the \includegraphics command works just fine outside of the textpos block. There is no difference in textpos behaviour whether or not I have the M -- that is just to sanity check that the margins are as expected (i.e. none)

I'm using MikTeX on Windows.

My LaTeX is below.

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[absolute,showboxes,verbose]{textpos}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{paperwidth=90mm, paperheight=45mm, layoutwidth=90mm, layoutheight=45mm, left=0mm, top=0mm, right=0mm, bottom=0mm}

\usetheme{}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} 

\begin{document}
%\fontspec[Ligatures=Rare,Contextuals=Swash,Contextuals=Alternate,StylisticSet=1,Style=TitlingCaps,Style=Alternate,Style=Swash,Contextuals=Swash]{Breathe Pro}\fontsize{12pt}{12pt}\selectfont
\fontspec{Palatino Linotype}\fontsize{12pt}{12pt}\selectfont
M

\begin{textblock*}{49mm}(10mm,10mm)\includegraphics[width=49mm]{tustinlogo01.png}\end{textblock*}

\end{document}
Andrew Uzzell
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Marcin
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2 Answers2

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You need to use the overlay option for textpos:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[absolute,showboxes,verbose,overlay]{textpos}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{paperwidth=90mm, paperheight=45mm, layoutwidth=90mm, layoutheight=45mm, left=0mm, top=0mm, right=0mm, bottom=0mm}

\usetheme{}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} 

\begin{document}
%\fontspec[Ligatures=Rare,Contextuals=Swash,Contextuals=Alternate,StylisticSet=1,Style=TitlingCaps,Style=Alternate,Style=Swash,Contextuals=Swash]{Breathe Pro}\fontsize{12pt}{12pt}\selectfont
\fontspec{Palatino Linotype}\fontsize{12pt}{12pt}\selectfont
M

\begin{textblock*}{49mm}(10mm,10mm)\includegraphics[width=49mm]{tustinlogo01.png}\end{textblock*}

\end{document}

See the beamer manual (p. 20):

beamer automatically installs a white background behind everything, unless you install a different background template. Because of this, you must use the overlay option when using textpos, so that it will place boxes in front of everything. Alternatively, you can install an empty background template, but this may result in an incorrect display in certain situtations with older versions of the Acrobat Reader.

Thorsten
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Apparently textpos does not play well with beamer (see page 8 of the textpos documentation). Given what you are doing, it seems unlikely that the particular document class matters: with something like article, this seems to work as expected.

Paul Stanley
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  • I guess this is the better option in the circumstances. Interestingly, the layout changed when I switched to article. – Marcin May 11 '11 at 15:59
  • @Marcin: The main function of a class is to set the layout. You might also try the Koma Script version of article: scrartcl, which might be closer to the beamer style. – Martin Scharrer May 11 '11 at 17:26
  • I note that textpos gives unexpected results if using \pagebreak. \newpage is needed instead. – Marcin May 11 '11 at 21:06
  • @Marcin: can you give an example of that (I'm the textpos author)? The two macros should do just about the same, but there's subtleties to both of them which could conceivably make them inequivalent, and which I'd be curious to investigate (and of course fix, if possible). – Norman Gray Feb 24 '15 at 14:51
  • @NormanGray Bear in mind you are replying to a comment from four years ago. I don't even have the computer this was on, let alone know the versions involved. If it's not happening for you, it's probably fine. – Marcin Feb 24 '15 at 17:00
  • @Marcin Ooops, so I am - sorry! – Norman Gray Feb 24 '15 at 19:17