graphicspositioning
I would like to put a small graphic in the bottom right corner of a the title page of an article. Is there a way to specify a precise location for a graphic on a page (that has text on it)?
I've tried doing it with a \parbox but haven't been able to so far.
You can easily achieve what you want using tikz placing a node at current page.north with anchor=north and a yshift specified through an argument, controlling the vertical separation between the top border of the page and the top border of the node:
\documentclass[openany]{report}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand\ChapterPrecis[2]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[anchor=north,draw,yshift=-#1] at (current page.north) {\parbox[t][3cm][c]{\linewidth}{#2}};
\end{tikzpicture}%
}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test Chapter One}
\ChapterPrecis{1cm}{\lipsum[2]}
\lipsum[1-3]
\chapter{Test Chapter Two}
\ChapterPrecis{2cm}{\lipsum[2]}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}
There are many ways to move the bottom lines:
Removing \begin{center}...\end{center} around the minipage to avoid the additional space added by environment center. Change the width of the minipage to full text width.
\vspace{\fill} fills the available space without guessing the amount.
Using \enlargethispage to get a larger height of the text body.
\vspace at the end of the minipage with negative value.
Example:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\enlargethispage{\footskip}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{center}
\onehalfspacing
\large
UNIVERSITY OF SIENA\\
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING
\vspace{5mm}
\Large
Master Thesis in Computer Science Engineering
\vspace{20mm}
\huge
\textbf{This is the long title of my Master thesis}
\end{center}
\vspace{23mm}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
\raggedright
\onehalfspacing
\large
\textit{Author}:\\[.5\baselineskip]
Me
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
\raggedleft
\onehalfspacing
\large
\textit{Supervisor}:\\[.5\baselineskip]
Him
\vspace{5mm}
\textit{Advisors}:\\[.5\baselineskip]
First\\
Second\\
Third
\end{minipage}%
\vspace{\fill}
\begin{minipage}[b]{\textwidth}
\centering
\onehalfspacing
\large
10 December 2012\\
Academic Year 2011/2012
\vspace{-20mm}
\end{minipage}%
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}
Best Answer
The
textpospackage is probably the easiest way to insert a graphic at an absolute position on the page.eso-piccan do the same and is capable of adding such picture commands to several or all pages.atbegshicould be used directly to hook into TeX's shipout mechanism to insert pictures. This package is used byeso-picwhich might serve as the easier front-end.everyshiis an older package for the same purpose likeatbegshi. It works but I would recommend the more modernatbegshi.if you would like to use TikZ: the current page node allows drawing on the current page using absolute coordinates. Have a look at Abolute positioning examples in the TikZ example gallery.