[Tex/LaTex] Watermark on selected pages or xwatermark and scrlayer-scrpage

koma-scriptscrlayer-scrpagexwatermark

maybe it is a duplicated question, but I want to put a watermark on pages I define at the beginning of the document. So far, the only package providing this is xwatermark. But I use scrlayer-scrpage and they do not work together. Is there a workaround or any other packages that provide this functionality?

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}
%\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}  % uncomment and compilation fails
\newwatermark[pagex={1,2,4,6},angle=45,scale=3]{Only selected Pages}
\begin{document}
\Blinddocument
\end{document}

Best Answer

Package xwatermark loads package fancyhdr which can't be used together with package scrlayer-scrpage.

With package scrlayer-scrpage you could define an additional layer for the watermark and add this to every layer pagestyle including page style empty.

Example:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[automark]{scrlayer-scrpage}

\usepackage{expl3}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\clist_const:Nn \l_my_watermarkpages {1,2,4,8}% list with the selected page numbers
\newcommand\watermark[1]
  {\makebox[0pt][c]
    {\scalebox{3.1}% scaling
      {\rotatebox[origin=bc]{45}% rotating
        {\Huge\bfseries\textcolor{lightgray}% font settings
          {\clist_if_in:NVTF \l_my_watermarkpages {#1}
            {\watermarktext}{}
  }}}}}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\newcommand\watermarktext{Only selected Pages}

\DeclareNewLayer[
  background,
  %textarea,
  mode=picture,
  contents={\putC{\watermark{\the\value{page}}}}
]{watermark}
\AddLayersToPageStyle{@everystyle@}{watermark}

\usepackage{blindtext}% only for dummy text
\begin{document}
\Blinddocument
\end{document}

Result:

If you don't remove package xwatermark from your code then you have to use package fancyhdr for your header and footer.

Example:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}
\newwatermark[pagex={1,2,4,6},angle=45,scale=3]{Only selected Pages}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{blindtext}% only for dummy text
\begin{document}
\Blinddocument
\end{document}

Result:

Note that this breaks several KOMA-Script features: options headsepline and footsepline, \addtokomafont and setkomafont for elements pageheadfoot and pagenumber etc.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] xwatermark: watermark skipping pages

This is to show you another option with powerful background package. Just adding \usepackage{background} will add the the Draft text.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{background}
\usepackage{lipsum}%used to generate false content


\begin{document}

%starts page numbers at i
\pagenumbering{roman}

NOTICES:\par
\lipsum[1-2]
\clearpage

\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\listoffigures
\clearpage

%starts page numbers at 1
\pagenumbering{arabic}

\section{Demo Section}
\lipsum[1-2]
\subsection{Demo Subsection}
\lipsum[1-2]
\subsubsection{Demo Subsubsection}
\lipsum[1-2]
%includes figure in list of figures
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{PlaceHolder}
\centering
\caption{Demo Graphic}
\label{fig:figure1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

You can customize the background contents with \backgroundsetup

\backgroundsetup{
scale=15,
color=gray!40,
angle=45,
opacity=1,
contents= {Draft}
}

enter image description here

contents= can be anything like a tikzpicture or any picture/text.

If you don't want the background for just one page like title page, use \NoBgThispage in that page.

%\thispagestyle{empty}
\NoBgThispage
This is the title page
\clearpage

[Tex/LaTex] Problems with scrlayer-scrpage

This translates your page layout into KOMA's terms. It may not make the requested changes because I don't know what they are meant to be. Your example does not include any chapters, let alone chapter titles, and it is impossible to guess which distance you are talking about or what is meant to align with what.

Note that, as originally configured, your layout will be inconsistent because both fancyhdr and scrlayer-scrpage will adjust headheight as required, changing the page dimensions in unpredictable ways. To avoid this, you need to make the height at least 33pt and to tell geometry about it.

Note also that scrlayer-scrpage is designed to cooperate with typearea. By using geometry, you lose the advantages of this. Consider whether you could use KOMA's typearea instead.

Here's the initial translation:

\documentclass[12pt,headsepline,footsepline]{scrreprt}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}% do you really need this? Better to use KOMA's setup if possible
\geometry{verbose,tmargin=2cm,bmargin=3.5cm,lmargin=3cm,rmargin=2.5cm,headheight=33pt}% the value 33pt is obtained from console warnings output by scrlayer-scrpage - this is the minimum required value, given the inclusion of the graphic - again, it would be better if you could use typearea for this
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{mygreen}{RGB}{23,156,125}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\upshape}
\setkomafont{pagehead}{\slshape}
\setkomafont{headsepline}{\color{mygreen}}
\setkomafont{footsepline}{\color{mygreen}}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\automark{chapter}
\ihead{\leftmark}
\ohead{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{IMG/Logo.JPG}}
\ofoot{\thepage}
\cfoot{}
\chead{}

\begin{document}
    Hello
\end{document}

I am guessing that you want the same footer on plain pages as on other pages. This can be achieved using the starred versions of \cfoot and \ofoot, and adding plainfootsepline to the class options:

\documentclass[12pt,headsepline,footsepline,plainfootsepline]{scrreprt}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}% do you really need this? Better to use KOMA's setup if possible
\geometry{verbose,tmargin=2cm,bmargin=3.5cm,lmargin=3cm,rmargin=2.5cm,headheight=33pt}% the value 33pt is obtained from console warnings output by scrlayer-scrpage - this is the minimum required value, given the inclusion of the graphic - again, it would be better if you could use typearea for this
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{mygreen}{RGB}{23,156,125}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage,kantlipsum}
\setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\upshape}
\setkomafont{pagehead}{\slshape}
\setkomafont{headsepline}{\color{mygreen}}
\setkomafont{footsepline}{\color{mygreen}}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\automark{chapter}
\ihead{\leftmark}
\ohead{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{IMG/Logo.JPG}}
\ofoot*{\thepage}
\cfoot*{}
\chead{}
\begin{document}
    Hello
    \chapter{Some chapter}
    \kant[1-10]
\end{document}

I'm guessing that the further change you want concerns the alignment of the \leftmark in the header. I'm not sure how this constitutes 2 changes, mind, since aligning with the bottom of the image will also reduce the distance....

So, I'm guessing you want something like this:

In which case, it is easiest, I think, to simply define the header in one go, setting the other parts of the header empty:

\documentclass[12pt,headsepline,footsepline,plainfootsepline]{scrreprt}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}% do you really need this? Better to use KOMA's setup if possible
\geometry{verbose,tmargin=2cm,bmargin=3.5cm,lmargin=3cm,rmargin=2.5cm,headheight=33pt}% the value 33pt is obtained from console warnings output by scrlayer-scrpage - this is the minimum required value, given the inclusion of the graphic - again, it would be better if you could use typearea for this
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor,calc}
\definecolor{mygreen}{RGB}{23,156,125}
\usepackage[markcase=upper]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\upshape}
\setkomafont{pagehead}{\slshape}
\setkomafont{headsepline}{\color{mygreen}}
\setkomafont{footsepline}{\color{mygreen}}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\automark{chapter}
\ihead{\leftmark\hfill \includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image-a}}
\ohead{}
\chead{}
\ofoot*{\thepage}
\cfoot*{}
\chead{}
\begin{document}
    Hello
    \chapter{Some chapter}
    \kant[1-10]
\end{document}

EDIT

In response to the question concerning changing the headers, you can simply redefine \ihead (or \ihead*) as you wish. Do note, however, that doing so is likely to be confusing to readers. The point of running heads is that they contain information which is consistent throughout the document (except on special pages such as the first pages of chapters etc.). Also, the headers should not distract from the body of the document.

\ihead{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image-b}\hfill\includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image-a}}
\kant[11-14]
\ihead{\leftmark\hfill \includegraphics[height=1cm]{example-image-a}}
\kant[15-20]

EDIT EDIT

You can produce roughly the same page layout using typearea by commenting out the calls to geometry and adding

\areaset[5mm]{155mm}{272mm}

However, if you are stuck with a requirement to use precisely the dimensions given, then you may need to stick to geometry even though it does not cooperate with KOMA. You need to be a bit more careful to make sure you specify adequate headheight etc. in that case.