Stickers on Thesis paper

Question

I want to put a sticker "Examiners Copy" on the the front page of the thesis. How to do this?

You mean on the title page? Where on the page you want it? And what should be the rotation of the text of sticker? — , Feb 12 '14 at 04:45
First page , I mean besides the Thesis title. And any good design is no problem. — Complex Guy, Feb 12 '14 at 04:47
Possible duplicates: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/132582/transparent-foreground-watermark, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/118939/add-watermark-that-overlays-the-images — doncherry, Feb 12 '14 at 12:54
If that is literally what you plan to put on the very first page of your thesis, I very strongly advise you not to. It will not make a good impression to emblazon a basic grammatical error all over your title page. It is very, very difficult not to allow this type of thing to affect your judgement of the quality of a piece of work, even if the marking criteria require you to exclude considerations of grammar. I note that Harish Kumar and Uwe Ziegenhagen correct this for the case in which you provide one copy per examiner. — cfr, Feb 13 '14 at 00:18

score 43 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 04 '16 at 14:09

With only tikz (don't forget to compile twice if things go wrong):

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\begin{document}
  \begin{titlepage}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
      \node[draw,minimum width=4in,rotate=-45,fill=orange,text=blue,font=\LARGE] at ($(current page.north east) + (-0.9in,-0.9in)$) {Examiner's Copy};
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \centering
    \vspace*{2cm}
    \Large Thesis title
  \end{titlepage}

\end{document}

enter image description here

Gonzalo Medina · Answer 2 · 2014-02-12T05:18:42.993

One possibility using the background package and its firstpage option; you can change the attributes (position, color, opacity, angle of the added text):

\documentclass[titlepage]{article}
\usepackage[firstpage=true]{background}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\backgroundsetup{
scale=2,
angle=0,
opacity=1,
color=red!70!black,
contents={\tikz\node[draw,rounded corners,font=\Huge] {Examiners Copy};},
vshift=2.5cm
}

\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\lipsum[1-40]

\end{document}

enter image description here

A variant:

\documentclass[titlepage]{article}
\usepackage[firstpage=true]{background}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\backgroundsetup{
scale=2,
angle=90,
opacity=1,
color=cyan!70!black,
contents={\tikz\node[draw,rounded corners,font=\sffamily\Huge,fill=orange!10] {Examiners Copy};},
vshift=2.5cm
}

\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\lipsum[1-40]

\end{document}

enter image description here

score 12 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 12:17

Although I like the other answers, just FYI, there is package called draftwatermark which allows you to put a background text.

Use the global option firstpage if you'd like the mark to appear only on the first page.
With \SetWatermarkColor[rgb]{1,1,0} you could change the colour. Otherwise, in the grey scale, the option \SetWatermarkLightness{0.7} change the grey value.
Change the scale of the mark with \SetWatermarkScale{3}
And the text with \SetWatermarkText{Examiners Copy}

All together:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage[firstpage]{draftwatermark}
% Use the following to make modification
\SetWatermarkColor[rgb]{1,1,0}
\SetWatermarkAngle{45}
\SetWatermarkScale{3}
\SetWatermarkText{Examiners Copy}

\title{Lorem ipsum}
\author{O. Castillo-Felisola}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\lipsum[1-5]

\end{document}

This code produces:

enter image description here

Cheers!

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 05:57

It also works using the good old eso-pic package which I usually use to position arbitrary content on a page:

 \documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrreprt}

 \usepackage{eso-pic,rotating,graphicx}
 \usepackage{blindtext}

 \author{John Doe}
 \title{Some Thesis}

 \begin{document}

 \AddToShipoutPicture*{\put(200,200){\rotatebox{45}{\scalebox{3}{Examiner's copy}}}}
 \maketitle


 \blindtext

 \end{document}

eso

Stickers on Thesis paper

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