When inserting a figure into a TeX document is there an easy way to make it appear behind the text?
[Tex/LaTex] How to include image in background
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pdf images has a transparent background, so even with a border, when you include them over a colored background the"white border" disappears. The easiest solution would be to include your figure into a white box with \colorbox{white}{\includegraphics{your-pdf-figure}}. This way figure's background and border are white.
Update: Missing graphic example for the original answer and some rotating examples for lalebarde's comment.
\documentclass[xcolor=svgnames,mathserif,serif]{beamer}
\usetheme{default}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}[default][center]
\definecolor{myblue}{RGB}{47,94,142}
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=myblue}
\usefonttheme{structuresmallcapsserif}
\setbeamercolor{title}{fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{titlelike}{fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=white}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Sample Title}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{1842.pdf} %why isn't white space appearing?
\colorbox{white}{\includegraphics{1842.pdf}}
\end{center}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Sample Title}
\begin{center}
\colorbox{white}{\includegraphics[angle=90]{1842.pdf}}
\colorbox{white}{\includegraphics[angle=30]{1842.pdf}}
\end{center}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Sample Title}
\begin{center}
\rotatebox{30}{\colorbox{white}{\includegraphics{1842.pdf}}}
\rotatebox{-60}{\colorbox{white}{\includegraphics{1842.pdf}}}
\end{center}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Note: you can get 1842.pdf sources from here
Redefine the background (or background canvas) templates to include your image; using TikZ you can place it in a \node and control its attributes (e.g., position, opacity):
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\title{The Title}
\subtitle{The Subtitle}
\author{The Author}
\institute{The Institute}
\begin{document}
{
\setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{%
\tikz[remember picture,overlay]%
\node[opacity=0.1] at (current page.center)%
{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,keepaspectratio]{example-image-a}};%
}
\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}
}
\begin{frame}
Test frame
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Adding
\setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{%
\tikz[remember picture,overlay]%
\node[opacity=0.1] at (current page.center)%
{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,keepaspectratio]{example-image-a}};%
}
in the preamble, causes the background image to appear in all the frames.
Best Answer
You can put an image into zero width and zero height/depth box, so TeX will just runs over it. Also, you probably want to lower the figure since normally the reference point is at the bottom.
This works: