How I could add an image in the bottom of pages of my document

Question

Hello! In the picture you can see the bottom of pages 2-7 of one document that I found. I would like to apply the same format in my document and I would like your help. As you can see the document consists of three different images - turbines in different position - (page 3,5,7) and this is repeated till the end.

Generally, how I could place an image in the bottom of my page like in this document?

Answer 1

The two main packages used for defining page styles are fancyhdr and titleps; the former is considered the classic package for footer/headers; the former is newer but equally powerful.

Each one of these packages has its own interface to produce headers/footers (examples below illustrate some of the available commands); please refer to the packages documentation for further information.

In the examples below I show how to produce the desired footers with each of those packages; in both cases, TikZ was used to draw the moving windmill; the windmill moves automatically, according to the value for \thepage mod 3.

Of course, instead of a TikZ picture, you can include existing images using the standard \includegraphics command from the graphicx package.

One possibility using fancyhdr to define the footer.

\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\usepackage[inner=30pt,outer=6cm,bottom=3.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example
\usepackage{intcalc}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\newcommand\WindMill{%
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=1\relax
  \def\Angle{70}
\else
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=2\relax
  \def\Angle{30}
\else
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=0\relax
  \def\Angle{-10}
\fi\fi\fi
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\draw 
  ([xshift=-80pt]current page.south east) --
  ++(3pt,80pt) -- ++(2pt,0pt) coordinate (center) -- ++(3pt,-100pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle,fill=white] (center.\Angle) rectangle ++(1.7cm,3pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle-120,fill=white] (center.\Angle-120) rectangle ++(1.7cm,3pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle+120,fill=white] (center.\Angle+120) rectangle ++(1.7cm,3pt);
\node[draw,fill=white,circle=inner sep=2pt] at ([xshift=-1pt]center) (circle) {}; 
\draw 
  ([xshift=-10pt]circle.west) -- ++(-\paperwidth,0);
\end{tikzpicture}%
}

\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{0pt}
\fancyfoot[OR]{\WindMill}
\fancyfoot[EL]{%
  \tikz[remember picture,overlay]{
    \draw ([yshift=80pt]current page.south west) -- ++(\paperwidth,0);
    \node[font=\small\scshape,anchor=north west] at ([yshift=80pt,xshift=30pt]current page.south west) {Wind Energy -- TU Delft};
  }
}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-50]
\end{document}

An image of the footer for pages 1 to 6:

And some zoomed individual images:

Now, the same style produced using the titleps package:

\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\usepackage[inner=30pt,outer=6cm,bottom=3.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{titleps}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example
\usepackage{intcalc}

\newcommand\WindMill{%
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=1\relax
  \def\Angle{70}
\else
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=2\relax
  \def\Angle{30}
\else
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=0\relax
  \def\Angle{-10}
\fi\fi\fi
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\draw 
  ([xshift=-80pt]current page.south east) --
  ++(3pt,80pt) -- ++(2pt,0pt) coordinate (center) -- ++(3pt,-100pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle,fill=white] (center.\Angle) rectangle ++(1.7cm,3pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle-120,fill=white] (center.\Angle-120) rectangle ++(1.7cm,3pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle+120,fill=white] (center.\Angle+120) rectangle ++(1.7cm,3pt);
\node[draw,fill=white,circle=inner sep=2pt] at ([xshift=-1pt]center) (circle) {}; 
\draw 
  ([xshift=-10pt]circle.west) -- ++(-\paperwidth,0);
\end{tikzpicture}%
}

\newpagestyle{windmill}
{\setfoot[%
  \tikz[remember picture,overlay]{
    \draw ([yshift=80pt]current page.south west) -- ++(\paperwidth,0);
    \node[font=\small\scshape,anchor=north west] at ([yshift=80pt,xshift=30pt]current page.south west) {Wind Energy -- TU Delft};
  }
][\thepage][]{}{\thepage}{\WindMill}
}
\pagestyle{windmill}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-50]
\end{document}

It has been requested in a comment to lower the elements a little:

\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\usepackage[inner=30pt,outer=6cm,bottom=3.5cm,footskip=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example
\usepackage{intcalc}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\newcommand\WindMill{%
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=1\relax
  \def\Angle{70}
\else
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=2\relax
  \def\Angle{30}
\else
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=0\relax
  \def\Angle{-10}
\fi\fi\fi
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\draw 
  ([xshift=-80pt]current page.south east) --
  ++(3pt,30pt) -- ++(2pt,0pt) coordinate (center) -- ++(3pt,-100pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle,fill=white] (center.\Angle) rectangle ++(1cm,3pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle-120,fill=white] (center.\Angle-120) rectangle ++(1cm,3pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle+120,fill=white] (center.\Angle+120) rectangle ++(1cm,3pt);
\node[draw,fill=white,circle,inner sep=3pt] at ([xshift=-1pt]center) (circle) {}; 
\draw 
  ([xshift=-10pt]circle.west) -- ++(-\paperwidth,0);
\end{tikzpicture}%
}

\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand\headrulewidth{0pt}
\fancyfoot[OR]{\WindMill}
\fancyfoot[EL]{%
  \tikz[remember picture,overlay]{
    \draw ([yshift=30pt]current page.south west) -- ++(\paperwidth,0);
    \node[font=\small\scshape,anchor=north west] at ([yshift=30pt,xshift=30pt]current page.south west) {Wind Energy -- TU Delft};
  }
}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-50]
\end{document}

Answer 2

Apart from the packages mentioned by Gonzalo in his answer there is at least one other couple of packages provided by KOMA-Script, but not restricted to be used only with KOMA-Script classes: the legacy scrpage2 (which has itself an obsolete predecessor scrpage) and its recent successor scrlayer-scrpage. If you are not forced to work with an outdated KOMA-Script (because your admins are too lazy to update or similar issues) you should use scrlayer-scrpage, it’s downwards compatible and does provide more fetatures.

Below you can see the code developed by Gonzalo, but adapted to scrlayer-scrpage. I intentionally left the lines with fancyhdr code in, so one can see, that the shift from this package is not very hard. One thing I wanted to show is, that there is by default a plain pagestyle companion, that can be changed in the optional arguments for head and foot style macros. I did this and added a page with this plain style. This page style is important for title pages and classes with chapters.

BTW when one would additionally load the package scrextend, more of the useful KOMA-Script features could be used with other classes, as well.

\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\usepackage[inner=30pt,outer=6cm,bottom=3.5cm,footskip=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example
\usepackage{intcalc}

%\usepackage{fancyhdr}
%\pagestyle{fancy}
%\renewcommand\headrulewidth{0pt}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}

\newcommand\WindMill{%
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=1\relax
  \def\Angle{70}
\else
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=2\relax
  \def\Angle{30}
\else
\ifnum\intcalcMod{\value{page}}{3}=0\relax
  \def\Angle{-10}
\fi\fi\fi
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\draw
  ([xshift=-80pt]current page.south east) --
  ++(3pt,30pt) -- ++(2pt,0pt) coordinate (center) -- ++(3pt,-100pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle,fill=white] (center.\Angle) rectangle ++(1cm,3pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle-120,fill=white] (center.\Angle-120) rectangle ++(1cm,3pt);
\draw[rotate=\Angle+120,fill=white] (center.\Angle+120) rectangle ++(1cm,3pt);
\node[draw,fill=white,circle,inner sep=3pt] at ([xshift=-1pt]center) (circle) {}; 
\draw
  ([xshift=-10pt]circle.west) -- ++(-\paperwidth,0);
\end{tikzpicture}%
}

%\fancyhf{}
\clearpairofpagestyles
%\fancyfoot[OR]{\WindMill}
\rofoot[\WindMill]{\WindMill}
%\fancyfoot[EL]{%
\lefoot[% different definition for plain page style
  {\tikz[remember picture,overlay]{
    \node[font=\small\scshape,anchor=north west] at ([yshift=30pt,xshift=30pt]current page.south west) {Wind Energy -- TU Delft};
  }}%
]{%
  \tikz[remember picture,overlay]{
    \draw ([yshift=30pt]current page.south west) -- ++(\paperwidth,0);
    \node[font=\small\scshape,anchor=north west] at ([yshift=30pt,xshift=30pt]current page.south west) {Wind Energy -- TU Delft};
  }
}
%\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\cfoot[\thepage]{\thepage}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-35]

\newpage
\thispagestyle{plain.scrheadings}
\mbox{}
% needed to produce an empty page, else one the first "\newpage" command would be swallowed
\newpage

\lipsum[36-50]
\end{document}