[Tex/LaTex] How to write multiple lines as watermark?… and images with transparency

draftwatermarkwatermark

I want to write 2 or 3 lines in watermark

\usepackage{draftwatermark}
\SetWatermarkText{Mika Ike}
\SetWatermarkScale{0.25}
\SetWatermarkColor[gray]{0.88}

How can I write "Mika Ike" and under this line "mikaike@mikaike.mikaike" and a third lined with "At My house" ?

Is it possible?

And… to use a image but with a hight level os transparency to see that image softly at background.

\usepackage{draftwatermark}
\SetWatermarkText{\includegraphics{fig1.jpg}}
\SetWatermarkScale{0.25}
\SetWatermarkColor[gray]{0.88}

Do you think this is the best package for watermarks? or do you know other better than this?.

Could you tell me about other packages.

Best Answer

Using the draftwatermark package, you can use a \parbox, or a minipage, to have the text spanning several lines:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a6paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{draftwatermark}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\SetWatermarkText{\parbox{12cm}{%
  Mika Ike \\
  \url{mikaike@mikaike.mikaike} \\ 
  At My house}}
\SetWatermarkScale{.5}
\SetWatermarkColor{red}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[4]\lipsum[4]
\lipsum[4]\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

enter image description here

In the case of opacity for images, the draftwatermark package apparently doesn't provide many possibilities.

As an alternative, I'd suggest you to use the background package; since this package internally uses TikZ, you can easily control the attributes (opacity, color, position, etc.) for the background material. A little example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a6paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[scale=2.5,opacity=1,color=red]{background}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\backgroundsetup{
contents={\begin{varwidth}{8cm}{%
  Mika Ike \\
  \url{mikaike@mikaike.mikaike} \\ 
  At My house}\end{varwidth}}
}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[4]\lipsum[4]
\lipsum[4]\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

The varwidth environment was used to have a box of adjustable width allowing multiple lines of text; a minipage or a \parbox could also have been used instead.

enter image description here

And, using an image:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a6paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[scale=1,opacity=0.75,angle=0]{background}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\backgroundsetup{
contents={\includegraphics[height=\textheight,width=\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{ctanlion}}
}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[4]\lipsum[4]
\lipsum[4]\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

enter image description here

CTAN lion drawing by Duane Bibby.

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