Absolute Positioning Graphics... Grid?

[Jan Marc Hoffmann]

Heya!

I am looking for a way to position my graphics absolute on slides. Its
sometimes usefull to move a graphic between some text or in between two
textblocks or graphics. Is there an easy way to place graphics? Really
cool would be a grid that would help with placing the graphics. (like
pstricks pspicture has some). A grid over the whole slide and then
placing the picture with coordinates would be perfect. eg. \put(3,4)(10,12).

Any idea? What and where would be a starting point to create something
like that?

thanks in advance
Jan Marc Hoffmann


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[Steve Schwartz-2]

Jan,

Have a look at the textpos latex package and see if will do what you
want. I've never used it myself but it seems to be what you're after,
and will even give you the grid that you request.

HTH

Steve

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 18:17 +0200, Jan Marc Hoffmann wrote:

> Heya!
>
> I am looking for a way to position my graphics absolute on slides. Its
> sometimes usefull to move a graphic between some text or in between two
> textblocks or graphics. Is there an easy way to place graphics? Really
> cool would be a grid that would help with placing the graphics. (like
> pstricks pspicture has some). A grid over the whole slide and then
> placing the picture with coordinates would be perfect. eg. \put(3,4)(10,12).
>
> Any idea? What and where would be a starting point to create something
> like that?
>
> thanks in advance
> Jan Marc Hoffmann
>
>
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[Jan Marc Hoffmann]

Thank you both, textpos was what i was looking for. :=) PGF looks
promising, i ll look into it later if im looking for something pstricks
lacks. :=)

Im using the following code now:

%the needed packages
\usepackage[absolute,showboxes]{textpos}
\usepackage[colorgrid,texcoord]{eso-pic}

%adjust the TPHorizModule and TPHorizModule units to the displayed mm %grid
\TPGrid{210}{297}

%puts a graphic at the absolute position described by the grid
%#1 x, #2 y, #3 width, #4 height, #5 graphic
\newcommand\putpic[5]{%
        \begin{textblock}{#3}(#1,#2)
  \includegraphics[width=#3\TPHorizModule,
  height=#4\TPVertModule]{#5}
     \end{textblock}
}

\putpic{20}{20}{100}{100}{graphics/mypic}

Works perfect. :=)

How can I redirect optional params to the includegraphics command?

thanks
Jan Marc Hoffmann


Steve Schwartz schrieb:

> Jan,
>
> Have a look at the textpos latex package and see if will do what you
> want. I've never used it myself but it seems to be what you're after,
> and will even give you the grid that you request.
>
> HTH
>
> Steve
>
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 18:17 +0200, Jan Marc Hoffmann wrote:
>> Heya!
>>
>> I am looking for a way to position my graphics absolute on slides. Its
>> sometimes usefull to move a graphic between some text or in between two
>> textblocks or graphics. Is there an easy way to place graphics? Really
>> cool would be a grid that would help with placing the graphics. (like
>> pstricks pspicture has some). A grid over the whole slide and then
>> placing the picture with coordinates would be perfect. eg. \put(3,4)(10,12).
>>
>> Any idea? What and where would be a starting point to create something
>> like that?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> Jan Marc Hoffmann
>>
>>
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