Instead of redefining the \maketitle
command, you can use \parbox
es to produce the desired layout; something along these lines:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\noindent\parbox[c]{.3\textwidth}{\includegraphics[width=.3\textwidth]{logo}}\hfill
\parbox[c]{.6\textwidth}{\raggedright%
\sffamily {\LARGE Latest Developments in Evolutionary Biology--A New Perspective\par\bigskip}
{John Doe\par\smallskip}
{\footnotesize Theoretical Science Department, Nice University\par}
}
\end{document}
The demo
option for graphicx
simply replaces actual figures with black rectangles; do not use that option in your actual document.
And, just for fun, an option using TikZ to replicate the logo:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\definecolor{bgcolor}{RGB}{247,242,222}
\definecolor{myred}{RGB}{152,31,32}
\newcommand\logo{%
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[draw=gray,line width=4pt,fill=bgcolor,rounded corners=3pt,minimum width=0.34\textwidth,align=center,inner sep=0pt,minimum height=3.3cm] (rect)
{ \sffamily
\parbox{.34\linewidth}{\color{myred}\footnotesize LECTURE \\ NOTES IN}%
\parbox{.4\linewidth}{\color{myred}\Large\bfseries Science}
};
\draw[gray,line width=1pt] ([xshift=-8pt,yshift=-1.2cm]rect.north) -- +(0,-30pt);
\end{tikzpicture}%
}
\begin{document}
\noindent\parbox[c]{.38\textwidth}{\logo}\hfill
\parbox[c]{.6\textwidth}{\raggedright%
\sffamily {\LARGE Latest Developments in Evolutionary Biology--A New Perspective\par\bigskip}
{John Doe\par\smallskip}
{\footnotesize Theoretical Science Department, Nice University\par}
}
\end{document}
The footer can be redefined with the \footer{...}{...}{...}
command in the preamble.
\documentclass{exam}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\footer{}{\thepage}{}
\begin{document}
\title{A title}
\author{A. Author}
\maketitle
\section{Section One}
\begin{questions}
\question
What if there were no air?
\end{questions}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}
Best Answer
As hpesoj626 said in a comment,
textpos
andtikz
are classical approaches to put a picture at an absolute position inside a page (i.e: at top right, or at (-1cm,-1cm) being the top right corner of the page the origin, and so on).But in this case I want to suggest a different and a bit "hackish" approach. Instead of putting the logo at an absolute position, your sample image suggest that it could be put also relative to the School Name (say for example, 3cm at the right and 1cm below of the school name). In this case no additional packages are required, standard LaTeX picture environment can do it. The trick is to define a picture of zero size so that it does not affect the centering of the titles. This is a MWE document which shows how.
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