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Creating Beautiful Designs
LaTeX also provides design concepts for non-standard documents, such as photobooks, calendars, greeting cards, colorful presentations, and fairy tale books.
This chapter explores such design ideas with a practical focus, including the following:
- Adding a background image
- Creating beautiful ornaments
- Preparing pretty headings
- Producing a calendar
- Mimicking keys, menu items, and terminal output
- Arranging topics like a puzzle
- Building a word cloud
Adding a background image
We can add background graphics such as watermarks, pre-designed letterheads, or photos to any LaTeX document. In this recipe, we will walk you through the steps to achieve this.
How to do it...
We will utilize the background package written by Gonzalo ...
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