Roy, thank you, that does exactly what I want except that nothing is
simple. For some reason putting the background image in empties the TOC
in the exported PDF. I tried ps2pdf , pdflatex and dvipdfm. The only
one which failed t work at all was pdflatex (it claimed not to recognise
the graphics file). Both ps2pdf and dvipdfm dropped the TOC.
I am using 1.4 on ubuntu. Is this likely to be a glitch in 1.4? Or
something else? (I will try it in 1.3.7 tomorrow!)
thanks again, and any further advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
Bruce
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:06 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ___/ On Fri 24 Mar 2006 04:52:58 GMT, [ Bruce Muirhead ] wrote : \___
>
> > I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in
> > which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a
> > background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page.
> >
> > I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes
> > such as exebook and ybookmaker.
> >
> > If this is possible, how would I go about doing it?
> >
> > Bruce
>
> Hi,
>
> Add the following to the Preamble:
>
> \usepackage{eso-pic,graphicx}
> \newcommand\BackgroundPicture[2]{%
> \setlength{\unitlength}{1pt}% default
> \put(0,[EMAIL PROTECTED]){%
> \parbox[t][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
> \vfill
> \centering\includegraphics[angle=#2]{#1}
> \vfill
> }}}
> \makeatother
> \AddToShipoutPicture{\BackgroundPicture{<PICTURE_PATH>}{0}}
>
> Put your image in <PICTURE_PATH> ("replace it with" rather). Encapsulated
> PostScript should do. If you want a practical example (LyX file), please
> just let me know. I use this for presentation slides in LyX.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Roy
>
