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Libby Heeren

@libbyheeren.bsky.social

🍰 Happy 15th anniversary to us 🥂

AND THEN I got nerdsniped so good & ended up in LaTeX-land bc my buddy was trying to get a header image on each page of a #quarto PDF 😂

Anyway, here's how I did it. #LaTeX isn't my thing! Don't judge. Should this be a blog or is it boring? Helpful? #rstats #databs

Smiling couple sitting at a restaurant table, leaning toward the camera. Two water glasses and a cocktail with a lime garnish sit on the white tablecloth.

Screenshot of a Quarto document showing YAML front matter. The title is set to ‘Example Doc First Page’. Under format → pdf, the line ‘include-in-header: header.tex’ is highlighted with a green box and arrow pointing to green text that says ‘Put this in your yaml’.

$Screenshot of a header.tex file open in a text editor. The LaTeX code loads geometry, graphicx, and tikzpagenodes packages, then uses an AddToHook command to apply a background image as a header on every page. Inside a tikzpicture environment, a node is anchored at the top-left of the page, with zero padding, including the image ‘images/FlowerHeader.png’ at full page width. The full code is as follows: % This adds a centered image to the top of each page, bleeding to the edges. % Need a much larger headheight (120pt) to push the text down on this one, % but your image may be shorter than mine! \usepackage[includehead,top=0pt,headsep=0pt,headheight=120pt]{geometry} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{tikzpagenodes} % Loop to apply the background image (the header) to every page of the doc \AddToHook{shipout/background}{% \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node[ anchor=north west, inner sep=0pt, % remove suble padding around the header image outer sep=0pt ] at (current page.north west) {\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{images/FlowerHeader.png}}; \end{tikzpicture}% }$ Screenshot of the RStudio PDF preview pane showing a rendered Quarto document. The first page displays a floral header image with overlaid text ‘THIS IS A HEADER’, followed by the title ‘Example Doc First Page’ and Quarto sample content with text, code, and output. The top of the second page is also visible, showing the repeated floral header with the same overlaid text.

Screenshot of the RStudio PDF preview pane showing a rendered Quarto document. The first page displays a floral header image with overlaid text ‘THIS IS A HEADER’, followed by the title ‘Example Doc First Page’ and Quarto sample content with text, code, and output. The top of the second page is also visible, showing the repeated floral header with the same overlaid text.

October 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM

Percight

@percight.bsky.social

with “\usepackage{graphicx}”

e.g.: “That logo \includegraphics[width=0.4cm]{blueskylogo.png} is blue.”

January 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM

Norbert Preining

@npreining.bsky.social

How I love LaTeX:
works: \usepackage{{{{{{graphicx}}}}}}
does not work: \usepackage{{{{{{{graphicx}}}}}}}
Life is beautiful!
#tex #latex

December 1, 2024 at 2:20 PM

⑉⑆⑄⑃ 𝐭𝐞𝐱 𖢘 ⭗🜂

@texumin.bsky.social

graphicx design edition by me but still by @deerbark.bsky.social

The picture's colors and values are distorted into a grungy yellowy greeny high contrast mess, just like everything in 200X.

November 21, 2024 at 6:58 PM

なかじ

@n12i.bsky.social

出発点が気になってたので、amazonでポチッとしてきた。今のところ、graphicx や epic で事足りているのだけれど。

Muskeltrainingsübermenschbot @wtsnjp.com · Oct 27

朝倉書店さんより『TikZによるLaTeXグラフィックス』をご恵贈いただきました。微力ながら私もレビューに協力しました。

TikZのさまざまな機能や外部パッケージを駆使しながら、LaTeX完結でベクター図版を作成する術がみっちり解説されています。1000ページ超で通しで読むのは大変過ぎることで知られるTikZ/PGFの付属ドキュメントを攻略する前に、本書に目を通すとよい出発点になると思います。