My institution's letterhead is available as a PDF file. The PDF is not just of the logo (to be placed in a corner), but of the entire page. Is it possible to make this PDF the background of the first page of my document?
[Tex/LaTex] PDF letterhead as document background
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Related Solutions
What you should do do is to define a header and footer for the document and re-define the header and footer for the first page. Here's a snippet from a .cls files I wrote a while ago. Some of the variables, spacings, etc are specific to my use but it should give you a rough idea of what to do.
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[CE]{\textit{\@title}}
\fancyhead[CO]{\sc \@runningname}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\setlength{\headsep}{10pt}
\fancypagestyle{first}{%
\setlength{\headsep}{0pt}
\fancyhead[C]{ }
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[R]{\today}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}%
You can also go though the documentation for the package (fancyhdr). I found it very helpful.
You need to create a new static frame:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[draft]{flowfram}
\setlength{\columnsep}{0.5in}
% Column 1, Page 1
\onecolumnStopinarea[1]{0.1\textheight}{\textwidth}{\textheight}{0pt}{0pt}
% Column 1, Page 2+
\onecolumnStopinarea[>1]{0.1\textheight}{0.35\textwidth}{\textheight}{0pt}{0pt}
% Column 2, Page 2+
\onecolumnStopinarea[>1]{0.1\textheight}{0.6\textwidth}{\textheight}{0.4\textwidth}{0pt}
\newstaticframe{\textwidth}{.5in}{0pt}{.9\textheight}[header]
% Static Header
\setstaticframe{all}{label={header}, backcolor=red, textcolor=white}
\begin{document}
\begin{staticcontents*}{header}
\begin{center}
Letterhead
\end{center}
\end{staticcontents*}
\section{Column 1 on Page 1}
\lipsum[1]
\clearpage
\section{Column 1 on Page 2}
\lipsum[1]
\framebreak
\section{Column 2 on Page 2}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can accomplish this with the
wallpaperpackage. It has many options for creating background images that are tiled, centered, and scaled, on every page or only specific ones. In your case if the letterhead is contained inlh.pdfthen you simply needThe key command in this case is of course
\ULCornerWallPaper{<scale>}{<file>}that places the image contained in<file>in the upper-left corner, scaled by a factor of<scale>.