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I want to do a presentation simulating an overhead projector which some professors used when I was a math student.

I couldn't find an image to mimic the background produced by an overhead projector. Also I was trying to make the text a little blurry using this: Blur the text so it's not readable, but it would be better if the entire document (background and images) is a little blurry and yellowish. I'm using a different font to simulate handmade annotations (http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Permanent+Marker).

Being more specific:

  • Background produced by an overhead projector.

  • Blurry and yellowish document.

  • Handmade annotations across the text.

Edit: Minimal example without text blur

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pages=all]{background}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{color}
\newfontfamily\myfont[Scale=2.5]{PermanentMarker}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\backgroundsetup{
opacity=0.4,
angle=0,
contents={%
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{background-image}
}%
}

\usepackage[overlay,absolute]{textpos}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-5]
\begin{textblock}{5}(6,6)
    {\myfont {\color{blue} Some annotations}}
\end{textblock}
\end{document}
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Please show us what you have tried so far. – Andrew Swann Jan 29 '15 at 14:50
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    It might be easier to create normal slides with LaTeX and then use imagemagick, gimp, or other image manipulation tool to create the border, blur, and yellowed looks. Note that imagemagick is command line driven, so you could do all of this work with a batch file. – James Jan 29 '15 at 15:12
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    The text would not be blurry if the projector was working and adjusted correctly. Colour distortion is another case but since LCD projection also distorts, but differently, you are going to have fake distortion + non-faked distortion of a different kind interacting. (Some distortion I've seen in LCD projection outstrips anything an overhead projector could do by an order of magnitude.) – cfr Jan 30 '15 at 04:11
  • Purchase yellow overhead transparency, 2. lightly sand the transparency to produce some scratches, and 3. tape the transparency over the LCD projector lens. :-)
  • – Paul Gessler Feb 01 '15 at 00:18