[Tex/LaTex] How to use background image in LaTeX

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I am generating one report where I need to use background image. But I found that image always starts leaving some margin space to left side.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wallpaper}
\usepackage{mdframed}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, outer=0cm, inner=0cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
 Some content
\ThisLRCornerWallPaper{1.0}{image.jpg}
\end{document}

How can I use background image covering whole page?

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You can do this in number of ways. I will show three more methods.

With tikz:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, outer=0cm, inner=0cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
 Some content
\tikz[remember picture,overlay] \node[opacity=0.3,inner sep=0pt] at (current page.center){\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{example-image}};
\clearpage
text
\end{document}

With eso-pic:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{eso-pic,graphicx}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, outer=0cm, inner=0cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
 Some content
\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{example-image}};
\clearpage
text
\end{document}

\AddToShipoutPictureBG (instead of \AddToShipoutPictureBG*) puts the background in all pages.

With background package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, outer=0cm, inner=0cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[pages=some]{background}

\backgroundsetup{
scale=1,
color=black,
opacity=0.4,
angle=0,
contents={%
  \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{example-image}
  }%
}
\begin{document}
 \BgThispage
 Some content
 \clearpage
 text
\end{document}

enter image description here

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[Tex/LaTex] Background image for minipage

You basically need to store the minipage content in a box register, measure it and overlay it with the graphic. The following environment awaits the image file name as first argument and then accepts any minipage arguments:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\newsavebox\mysavebox
\newenvironment{imgminipage}[2][]{%
   \def\imgcmd{\includegraphics[width=\wd\mysavebox,height=\dimexpr\ht\mysavebox+\dp\mysavebox\relax,#1]{#2}}%
   \begin{lrbox}{\mysavebox}%
   \begin{minipage}%
}{%
   \end{minipage}
   \end{lrbox}%
   \sbox\mysavebox{\fbox{\usebox\mysavebox}}%
   \mbox{\rlap{\raisebox{-\dp\mysavebox}{\imgcmd}}\usebox\mysavebox}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{imgminipage}{imagefilename}{5cm}
    Some text\\
    Hello world!
\end{imgminipage}

\end{document}

Result

I added now a bgimage key to adjustbox (develop version) which allows you to add a background image. To have also a \fbox use either:

\begin{adjustbox}{minipage=<width>,fbox,bgimage=<image>}
    <text>
\end{adjustbox}

which adds the \fbox first and then places the background image behind it, so that the frame covers some small part of the image, or

\begin{adjustbox}{minipage=<width>,margin=\fboxsep,bgimage=<image>,frame}
    <text>
\end{adjustbox}

which adds the same margin manually, places the background image and then draws a tight frame around it, so that the image is fully shown (and a little bit smaller than before).

[Tex/LaTex] Column background image

You can insert an image in the background using the standard \includegraphics command, supplemented by a \raisebox{-\height}[0pt][0pt] to remove any vertical height/displacement.

The following minimal working example does exactly that, with the addition of any of the regular beamer overlay specification functionality:

\documentclass{beamer}
%\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Background Test}

  \begin{columns}
    \column{0.3\textwidth}
      \only<2>{\raisebox{-\height}[0pt][0pt]{\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=4cm]{tiger}}}%
      \begin{itemize}
        \item Left Column 1
        \item Left Column 2
      \end{itemize}

    \column{0.7\textwidth}
      \begin{itemize}
        \item Right Column 1
        \item Right Column 2
      \end{itemize}
  \end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

enter image description here

I've set the width of the image to be exactly \linewidth, which is the width of the column that it is put in (the first). The height of the image is set to 4cm, but you can modify this as needed.

Of course there are other methods (using other packages), but this seems to be the most straight forward, since it uses the only the essential graphicx package, actually already included by beamer.

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[Tex/LaTex] Background image for minipage

[Tex/LaTex] Column background image

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