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I recently completed running an international conference. I hope to make certificates in a landscape orientation for the organizing committee, and some other attendees. In order to make everything easier, I'm trying to use LaTeX to script as much as possible. I've made a lot of headway outside the fact that there are different page sizes, paper, A4, etc.

I'm trying to make a background that looks likes this (ignore the non-framing, I lifted it from a JPG that was in a Word document used in past conferences):

template

Specifically, I the blue double-line on the outside. I cannot seem to figure out how to make it programmatically so that I can use letter or A4 paper, and just math my way to success.

If anyone knows programmatically how to create this look, any guidance would be appreciated.

b degnan
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  • look at eso-pic package and its examples: https://ctan.org/pkg/eso-pic – Ignasi May 12 '21 at 17:51
  • @Ignasi as I'm trying to make sure it works for different paper sizes, I don't know if that'll work. I guess I could have two different templates that are selected based on paper size. – b degnan May 12 '21 at 18:15
  • For a single page, tikz [overlay, remember picture] using (current page) anchors is easy. I should be okay if the whole document is in landscape. – John Kormylo May 12 '21 at 23:49

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I have come up with a solution, and it was an adventure. It's worth noting that landscape makes everything difficult. You really need to use the \usepackage[landscape]{geometry} instead of the pdflscape packages because something runs off and messes up the margins.

\documentclass{article}
%https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/91105/
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\makeatletter
\ifpdf
\else
\ifGm@landscape
\def\pgf@sys@pdf@mark@pos@pgfpageorigin{\pgfqpoint{0sp}{11840716sp}}
\fi
\fi
\makeatother


\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\lipsum[1-4]
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]


\draw [line width=2pt,rounded corners=8pt]
   ($ (current page.north west) + (1.5cm,-1.5cm) $)
    rectangle
    ($ (current page.south east) + (-1.5cm,1.5cm) $);


\draw [line width=1pt,rounded corners=8pt]
   ($ (current page.north west) + (1.6cm,-1.6cm) $)
    rectangle
    ($ (current page.south east) + (-1.6cm,1.6cm) $);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

The result is close enough, and something to work with.

enter image description here

b degnan
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  • Tikz is known not to like changes in the page geometry (see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/226678/how-can-i-maintain-the-current-page-nodes-for-portrait-when-temporarily-entering) – John Kormylo May 13 '21 at 15:29
  • It may be better to pass landscape to the class so everything picks it up (everything which is interested). – cfr Oct 01 '23 at 00:21