Flipping Image Vertically

Question

I am trying to create a template with a border round the edges but struggling to flip an image to fit in.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,blindtext}
\input{inkscape.tex}
\title{Table 1}
\author{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[below left] at ([xshift=-1cm,yshift=-1cm]current page.north east) {\ornament{scale=1}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[below left] at ([xshift=5cm,yshift=-1cm]current page.north west) {\ornament{scale=1}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\blindtext
\end{document}

Using the above code with this file https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9035028

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '18 at 14:14

You are nesting tikzpicture, which one should not do. To avoid it, you can use a savebox. As for your question, you can then simply use xscale=-1.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,blindtext}
\input{inkscape.tex}
\newsavebox\Ornament
\savebox\Ornament{\ornament{scale=1}}
\title{Table 1}
\author{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[below left] at ([xshift=-1cm,yshift=-1cm]current page.north east)
{\usebox\Ornament};
\end{tikzpicture}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[below left,xscale=-1] at ([xshift=1cm,yshift=-1cm]current page.north west)
{\usebox\Ornament};
\end{tikzpicture}
\blindtext
\end{document}

A neat side-effect of this is that the coordinates are now symmetric [xshift=-1cm,yshift=-1cm] vs.[xshift=1cm,yshift=-1cm]`, and it is easy to avoid the overlap.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,blindtext}
\input{inkscape.tex}
\newsavebox\Ornament
\savebox\Ornament{\ornament{scale=1}}
\title{Table 1}
\author{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[below left] at ([xshift=-0.25cm,yshift=-1cm]current page.north east)
{\usebox\Ornament};
\end{tikzpicture}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[below left,xscale=-1] at ([xshift=0.25cm,yshift=-1cm]current page.north west)
{\usebox\Ornament};
\end{tikzpicture}
\blindtext
\end{document}

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '18 at 12:17

I hope this helps you. You can simply use \reflectbox along with \rotatebox to achieve your results

   \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{tikz,blindtext}
    \input{inkscape.tex}
    \title{Table 1}
    \author{}
    \begin{document}
    \maketitle
    \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
    \node[below left] at (current page.north east) {\ornament{scale=1}};
    \node[below left] at ([xshift=-10cm,yshift=0cm]current page.north east) {\reflectbox{\rotatebox[origin=c]{360}{\ornament{scale=1}}}};
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \blindtext
    \end{document}

You can play with (x,y) shifts to align as you want.

+1 for using \reflectbox and \rotatebox, but one should really not nest tikzpictures. — , Aug 06 '18 at 14:16

Flipping Image Vertically

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