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I want to put images in the headers of all pages but the first page of a document.

Besides for the first page, on each and every odd page, I want one image; while on each and even page I want another image.

I tried to modify what is proposed here, but could not do so.

Werner
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Michael Levy
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  • Show us, what you try so far. I guess that you have twoside document. See fancyhdr documentation how it handle page headers at such documents (section *10 An example of two-sided printing, page 11 -- 12). – Zarko Dec 16 '21 at 06:22

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Since the page style elements are set when the page numbers are fully known, you can easily condition on whether or not you're on an odd/even page with \ifodd\value{page} <odd page>\else <even page>\fi:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}% All pages will have a fancy page style
\fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove header rule
\fancyhead[C]{%
  \ifodd\value{page}
    \smash{\includegraphics[height=.8\baselineskip]{example-image-a}}% Center of Odd page
  \else
    \smash{\includegraphics[height=.8\baselineskip]{example-image-b}}% Center of Even page
  \fi
}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}% Centre of footer


\fancypagestyle{firstpage}{%
  % Page style for first page
  \fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%
  \fancyhead[C]{First page}% Header
  \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}% Footer
}


\usepackage{lipsum}


\begin{document}


\thispagestyle{firstpage}
\lipsum[1-50]


\end{document}

A separate firstpage page style is set up an used via \thispagestyle{firstpage}.

I've \smashed the images, but you could consider changing the \headheight to suit the size of your image inclusion.

Werner
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