% Rolf Niepraschk, nieprasck@ptb.de, 2002-11-24 % A funny demo for `textpos' with a backgroundgrid from `eso-pic'. \documentclass[a4paper,draft]{article} %\usepackage[absolute,showboxes]{textpos} \usepackage[absolute]{textpos} \usepackage[colorgrid,texcoord]{eso-pic}[2002/11/16] \usepackage{calc} \newcommand\StartX{25mm} \newcommand\StartY{40mm} \newcommand\Wi{160mm} \newcommand\Wii{40mm} \newcommand\Wiii{60mm} \newcommand\Hi{20mm} \newcommand\Hii{100mm} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \textblockorigin{0cm}{0cm} \begin{textblock*}{\Wi}(\StartX,\StartY)% \noindent\colorbox[rgb]{0,0,1}{% \begin{minipage}[c][\Hi - 2\fboxsep][c]{\linewidth - 2\fboxsep}% \centering\Huge\textbf{FOO}% \end{minipage}}% \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{\Wii}(\StartX,\StartY + 20mm)% \noindent\colorbox[rgb]{0,1,0}{% \begin{minipage}[c][\Hii - 2\fboxsep][c]{\linewidth - 2\fboxsep}% \centering\Huge\textbf{BAR}% \end{minipage}}% \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{\Wii}(\StartX + \Wi - \Wii,\StartY + 20mm)% \noindent\colorbox[rgb]{1,1,0}{% \begin{minipage}[c][\Hii - 2\fboxsep][c]{\linewidth - 2\fboxsep}% \centering\Huge\textbf{BAR}% \end{minipage}}% \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{\Wi}(\StartX,\Wi)% \noindent\colorbox[rgb]{1,0,1}{% \begin{minipage}[c][\Hi - 2\fboxsep][c]{\linewidth - 2\fboxsep}% \centering\Huge\textbf{FOO}% \end{minipage}}% \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{\Wiii}(75mm,70mm)% \setlength\fboxrule{2pt}% \noindent\fbox{% \begin{minipage}{\linewidth - 2\fboxsep - 2\fboxrule}% \Large\itshape Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text \end{minipage}}% \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{\Wiii}(75mm,130mm)% \setlength\fboxrule{2pt}% \noindent\fbox{% \begin{minipage}[c][\Hi - 2\fboxsep - 2\fboxrule]% {\linewidth - 2\fboxsep - 2\fboxrule}% \centering\Huge\textbf{\LaTeX} \end{minipage}}% \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{\Wi}(\StartX,\StartY + 160mm)% \noindent\colorbox[rgb]{0,1,1}{% \begin{minipage}[c][\Hi - 2\fboxsep][c]{\linewidth - 2\fboxsep}% \centering\Huge\textbf{FOOBAR}% \end{minipage}}% \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{\Wi}(\StartX,\StartY + 200mm)% \noindent\colorbox[rgb]{1,0,0}{% \begin{minipage}[c][\Hi - 2\fboxsep][c]{\linewidth - 2\fboxsep}% \centering\Huge\textbf{BAZ}% \end{minipage}}% \end{textblock*} \end{document}