___/ On Fri 24 Mar 2006 13:57:08 GMT, [ Bruce Muirhead ] wrote : \___
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, RoyRoy, 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
Hi Bruce, I was doing this in LyX 1.3.4 or 1.3.6. I was using this to produce slides, so no experience with TOC collisions. I cannot think of a simple workaround to your problem at the moment, I'm afraid. Best wishes, Roy -- Roy S. Schestowitz | It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon http://Schestowitz.com | SuSE Linux ¦ PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E 4:05pm up 16 days 8:42, 8 users, load average: 0.66, 0.84, 0.75 http://iuron.com - Open Source knowledge engine project
