How to put frame around each page with white space buffer so that text are do not touch the frame?

Question

I like to put frame around each page. Only around the text area of the page. Not including the header and footer.

I am also using fancyhdr. After some struggle, I got the following.

But the frame around the text area is too close to the text itself. I am not sure how to add extra space. Should I make textwidth itself smaller? Or make frame wider? And how to do these things. This is what I have now:

I am using Tikz code I found on the net and made small modification to change thickness and color of the frame. Here is MWE

\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}
\usepackage[letterpaper,margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% fancyhdr
\usepackage{textcase}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhead{} % clear all header fields
\fancyfoot{} % clear all footer fields
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% default is 0pt
\fancyhead[R]{{\footnotesize\scshape\thepage}}
\fancyhead[L]{\leftmark}
\fancyfoot[L]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% default is 0pt

\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
\usepackage[contents={}]{background}
\AddEverypageHook{%
  \tikz[remember picture,overlay]{
    \draw[line width=.5pt,rounded corners,gray] (current page text area.north east) -- (current page text area.north west)
          -- (current page text area.south west) -- (current page text area.south east) -- cycle;
  }
}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{1} % 4 for main TOC must be in preamble
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
\begin{document}
\title{My most important work\vspace{-8pt}}
\author{me}
\date{\today}
\maketitle

\tableofcontents
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Need something similar to Vector frame on all pages

But I could not make the above work with fancyhdr , it messed it up. Will keep trying.

The space buffer does not have to be too large. I just do not like the text touching the frame, makes it hard to read.

I basically need something like this:

using TL 2023 with lualatex

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 19 '23 at 07:08

How about using the fit library and just a node?

\usetikzlibrary{fit}
\AddEverypageHook{%
  \tikz[remember picture,overlay]{
    \node [fit=(current page text area),draw,inner sep=10pt] {};
  }
}

You can modify inner sep as desired.

\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}
\usepackage[letterpaper,margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% fancyhdr
\usepackage{textcase}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhead{} % clear all header fields
\fancyfoot{} % clear all footer fields
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% default is 0pt
\fancyhead[R]{{\footnotesize\scshape\thepage}}
\fancyhead[L]{\leftmark}
\fancyfoot[L]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% default is 0pt

\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
\usepackage[contents={}]{background}
\usetikzlibrary{fit}
\AddEverypageHook{%
  \tikz[remember picture,overlay]{
    \node [fit=(current page text area),draw,inner sep=10pt] {};
  }
}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{1} % 4 for main TOC must be in preamble
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
\begin{document}
\title{My most important work\vspace{-8pt}}
\author{me}
\date{\today}
\maketitle

\tableofcontents
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Incidentally, I believe the background package may be deprecated in favour of the new hooks (but this would be another topic!).

How to put frame around each page with white space buffer so that text are do not touch the frame?

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