I'm writing a cover letter that I want to have on university letterhead, which I have a full-sized electronic copy of (in PDF as well as JPG). Is there an easy way to make TeX do this?
[Tex/LaTex] Output TeX into a PDF template
graphicsletterhead
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Update: Here's an example that's actually working. Just had my calculations a bit off, earlier. This isn't exactly reproducing your example output, but this should be flexible enough that you can insert whatever you like.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=2in]{geometry}
\newbox\mybox
\newcommand\letterhead{%
\cleardoublepage
\setbox\mybox=\vbox{%
\parindent=0pt
\vskip\dimexpr-1in-\voffset-\topmargin-\headheight-\headsep-\topskip\relax
\hbox to \paperwidth{\letterheadcontents\hss}%
}
\dp\mybox=0pt\ht\mybox=0pt\wd\mybox=0pt
\moveleft\dimexpr1in+\hoffset+\oddsidemargin\relax
\box\mybox
\vskip-\baselineskip
}
\def\letterheadcontents{%
\hspace*{\fill}%
\fbox{\parbox{7in}{hello\\ this is my letterhead}}%
\hspace*{\fill}%
}
\begin{document}
\letterhead
\lipsum
\end{document}
I once created a scrlttr2 template with the contact information on the right and custom TikZ drawings on the top. It should be adoptable fairly easily. One can find the TeX code here: TeX code
Best Answer
I recommended to use
pdftkfor such things. Iftemplate.pdfis the cover letter andmydocument.pdfis the (may be LaTeX generated) own document, you can can "stamp" it with the template:backgroundis transparent "stamping", butstampis a foreground stamping. If you want to stamp only the first page, create thetemplate.pdfwith an additinal empty page and usemultistamp/multibackgroundinstead ofstamp/backgroundinpdftk.