I am designing a business card using the memoir class and hints given here and am trying out various background effects. Specifically, I would like to change the background for the last third of the card to another colour. Because the colour needs to bleed to the edge, an option involving tables is not suitable. Short of inserting an image and overwriting it, is there a more elegant way to achieve this?
[Tex/LaTex] Setting background colour for part of a page
backgroundscolor
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Looking at the color documentation, it says that \colorbox uses the parameters \fboxrule and \fboxsep. Maybe try
\setlength\fboxrule{0pt}
\setlength\fboxsep{0pt}
before using the \colorbox.
Edit:
It seems to work for me. The space between the rules isn't added by the \colorbox, but by the ruled float style. One possibility would be to design a new float style and then use \restylefloat from the float package to change the style of the algorithm floats. Rather than do that, I just added some kerns.
I'm becoming less and less convinced this is the right way to do these things. It feels like we're just piling hack on top of hack here. I feel like this is partly due to using LyX, but I have zero experience with it, so I'm not positive.
% Resize figures that are too wide for the page.
\let\oldincludegraphics\includegraphics
\renewcommand\includegraphics[2][]{%
\graphicsformat{%
\oldincludegraphics[width=\ScaleIfNeeded]{#2}%
}%
}
% Change the background colour of algorithm boxes
\let\oldalgorithm\algorithm
\let\endoldalgorithm\endalgorithm
\renewenvironment{algorithm}[1][htbp]{
\let\graphicsformat\justifiedandcolored
\oldalgorithm[#1]
}%
{\endoldalgorithm}
\def\justifiedandcolored#1{%
\setlength\fboxrule{0pt}%
\setlength\fboxsep{0pt}%
\kern-2pt
\colorbox{sourcecolour}{%
\hbox to\linewidth{#1}%
}%
\par
\kern-2pt
}
% Centre graphics within non-Algorithm floats.
\let\graphicsformat\centering
The pagecolor package adds some page colour checking options to that provided by xcolor itself, which may not be necessary:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pagecolor,lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{pagecolor,lipsum}
\begin{document}
\pagecolor{yellow!30!orange}
\lipsum
\end{document}
It automatically loads xcolor if it's not loaded by default.
Best Answer
When I understood your requirements correctly you need anyway a 90mm x 52mm PDF as a result. Therefore I would recommend to you to "draw" the card using TikZ. There you can set the background colors as filled rectangles. Use the
previewpackage to minimize the resulting PDF page. The code below usesstandaloneto do this automatically.TikZ supports a lot of graphical features like shadings etc., so you shouldn't run into any limitations. See this question if you want to draw on the background of a normal page instead.
Result: