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Questions tagged [backgrounds]

{backgrounds} is used for questions concerning different ways and circumstances where color or images constitute a backdrop to other elements on a page.

Backgrounds are generally taken in the context of watermarks and other elements that the main content is typeset on the page.

can also refer to the layering of different elements superimposed on top of each other. The bottom element is usually said to be on the background layer though it is just an ordering.

is a popular package used to generate the background.

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Making a checkered background for a page

I am writing a math work, and I'd like to create a background which looks like a math notebook. Any idea how to do it ? I found this solution, but I don't know how to put it in a mini-page ... %%% %%% quarre…
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Does latex have the z-index property

May be this is a very strange question. But I found this property is very useful to control the overlap element. So I wonder if latex own this property as HTML div. Do you have any better idea to solve the overlap problem. Sometime, I need to push…
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Change background color for only a section of the page?

I understand one can easily change the background color for text portion easily, but I would like to do the same for an entire portion of the page. How does one change background color for only a section of the page?
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Background package produces background on every page, despite firstpage=false

In the following example, pagenumber is printed on every page. What am I doing wrong? \documentclass[10pt]{article} \usepackage{background} \backgroundsetup{angle=0, scale=1, color=blue, firstpage=false, position=current page.south west,…
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Use two different background images, one in odd pages and the other on even pages?

I would like to know if there is a code on preambule wich allows me to alternate 2 images, placing one of them as background on even numbered pages, and the other one the odd numbered pages. Actually I have one image for every page. I'm using in my…
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Using the 'wallpaper' package to put a background on all but one page

I'm placing a background in my report document, using the LaTeX wallpaper package. However, I am not able to easily place a document on all pages except for one (the title page). I am using \ULCornerWallPaper{1}{background.pdf} in my preamble to set…
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Avoid background to be shown in ToC and chapter page

I'm using the background package. Is there any option to remove the background from the ToC and from the first page of each chapter? Besides, is it possible to override the background on some pages and then getting back to the globally set one?
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How might I get rid of these vertical blue boxes on the side of pages that are either blank, or first in the chapter?

I've been looking for a method of having different designs on odd/even pages, and from what I found on Google, background seems to be the package to do it; but in using it, it indiscriminately puts my design on EVERY page, even ones that I specify…
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How can I draw a vertical line on every page of a document?

I want to draw a vertical line on the left of every odd-numbered page and on the right of every even-numbered page in a document. Is there a preamble to do this?
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How can I add a background to a logo?

Is there a way of making the white areas in a picture transparent, so that when placed on a background, the background colour appears on the picture where there was previously white? In fact I’m trying to insert a logo on a blue background. I just…
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How to include (a) multipage pdf in the background

I want to include one/several multipage PDFs as a background to print additional information on it (header, page number, ...) Save the mwe Package documentation in the directory in order to…
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How do I insert a picture to cover the whole background of a single page only? This is what happened with the code

I want to insert a logo for a single page. The logo should cover the whole page size. How do I do it?
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Background in wrong position with heavy files

I'm working on a .tex file which basically generates a totally procedurally generated pdf. The output is a 100 page pdf in which every page's background is different. I made all of those background by hand, and LaTeX calls them out page by…
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adding a background layer on some subset of states of an automaton

I would like to add a background behind some nodes of an automaton but the background needs to refer to the nodes of the automaton. So I don't know how to draw it "before" drawing the automaton since I need to refer to the nodes…
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latex background image issue

Using the Latex eso-pic package I am inserting a background image using the following lines: \AddToShipoutPictureBG{ \AtStockLowerLeft{ \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{picture}}} \begin{document} ... This works; every…
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