[Tex/LaTex] Change the background color in the title

colorformattingtitlestitling

I need to set the background color in my definition of the title but I don't know how I can do. I have the next definition:

\pretitle{\vspace{-90pt} \begin{flushleft} \HorRule \fontsize{20}{20} \usefont{OT1}{phv}{b}{n} \color{AzulUnir}  \selectfont }
\title{This is the title of the template article}   
\posttitle{\par\end{flushleft}\vskip 0em}   
\preauthor{\begin{flushleft} \large \lineskip 0em \usefont{OT1}{phv}{b}{sl} \color{AzulUnir}}   
\author{Firstname Lastname, 
 \postauthor{\footnotesize \usefont{OT1}{phv}{m}{sl} \color{Black} Universdad \par\end{flushleft}\HorRule}

[EDIT] I'm using this template http://www.howtotex.com/download/2col-color-art-howtotex.tex but I need to customize the background color in the title and a in the section but I don't khow how to make none of them.

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It's quite unclear what you want to do; however this changes the background color of the title to green (pick your favorite color)

\newsavebox{\titlebox}
\pretitle{%
  \vspace{-30pt}
  \noindent\HorRule\\[1ex]
  \begin{lrbox}{\titlebox}
  \begin{minipage}{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}\raggedright
  \fontsize{50}{50}\usefont{OT1}{phv}{b}{n}\color{DarkRed}\selectfont
}
\posttitle{%
  \par
  \end{minipage}\end{lrbox}
  \colorbox{green}{\usebox{\titlebox}}\par
  \vskip 1ex}
\title{This is the title of the template article}

The code should go in place of your original \pretitle and \posttitle definitions.

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[Tex/LaTex] Change background color in metapost

Here's a receipe for drawing an image whose dimensions aren't known in advance on a background that scales to the image's final bounding box:

Draw the image.
Save the image in a picture variable.
Measure the picture's bounding box.
Draw the background.
Re-draw the original image on top of the background.

Here's an example followed by some random notes:


beginfig(1);
  %
  % Draw random picture.
  %
  pair p,q;
  for i = 1 upto 20:
    p := (uniformdeviate 200, uniformdeviate 200);
    q := (uniformdeviate 200, uniformdeviate 200);
    draw p--q withpen pencircle scaled 2 withcolor red;
  endfor
  %
  % Solution starts here.
  %
  % Save picture in variable pic for later reference.
  picture pic;
  pic := currentpicture;
  % Clear currentpicture to avoid outputting the picture twice.
  currentpicture := nullpicture;
  % Fill a rectangle with pic's bounding box dimensions (plus
  % bboxmargin) with desired background colour.
%  interim bboxmargin := 0;
  fill bbox pic withcolor blue;
  % Draw original picture on top of background.
  draw pic;
endfig;
end

Saving an image in a picture variable can either be done by storing currentpicture in a picture variable or via the image command (see the MetaPost manual for more information). If the currentpicture method is used, like in the example, make sure to clear currentpicture before drawing the background. Otherwise the image is output twice, the first copy being hidden behind the background, bloating the output file.

The bbox command returns a rectangular path corresponding to the bounding box of the picture argument plus a small amount determined by the internal variable bboxmargin (2bp by default).

Internal variables can be modified locally to the current group using the interim statement. That is, if you wrap an assignment to an internal variable in begingroup ... endgroup; the variable's value is restored after the group. Note, beginfig() just starts a group that ends at the corresponding endfig.

[Tex/LaTex] change pdf standard background color

Given Adobe's appalling record as a proxy for malware, I'd suggest switching your PDF viewer.

Should you decide to do this, and move to PDF XChange Viewer from Tracker Software, then in the preferences dialogue, on the Customize[sic] UI tab, you can select the background colour you want, with or without a gradient (God forbid!).

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