[XeTeX] Decorative border around page

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Kamal Abdali wrote:


> Can any one point me to some sample TeX/LaTeX/XeTeX code for drawing
> decorative borders around pages in a document?
>
> An example of what I would like is Item 4 in "XeTeX Showcase"
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/src/Demos/XeTeX-showcase/.
>
> The direct link to the output is
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/src/Demos/XeTeX-showcase/hno-sample.pdf


Hi Kamal:

I didn't look at the examples yet, but here's something that Rolf 
Niepraschk sent to me a while back (he often contributes to the 
comp.text.tex list) that works with LaTeX:



\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,prologue]{xcolor}
\usepackage{pst-pdf,varwidth,umrand}

\pagecolor{LimeGreen}

\providecommand\webofamily{\usefont{U}{webo}{xl}{n}}
\newsavebox\ornamentBox

\begin{document}

\sbox\ornamentBox{%
\begin{varwidth}{.5\textwidth}
  \Huge\LaTeX{} \LaTeX{} \LaTeX{} \LaTeX{}
\end{varwidth}
}

\begin{postscript}
  \colorbox{LimeGreen}{%
    \RandBox{\usebox{\ornamentBox}} font {\webofamily} [0.0em]
        (a) ([f\\g]f) (b)  
        ([\hspace{.03ex}\rotatebox{-180}{j}\\\rotatebox{-180}{k}]) 
        ([\rotatebox{-180}{i}\\\hspace{.03ex}\rotatebox{-180}{l}])       
        (a) ([f\\g]f) (b)}
\end{postscript}

\end{document}


He suggests going about it this way with LaTeX:

latex result.tex
dvips result.dvi -o result-picture.ps
ps2pdf result-picture.ps


It may be that using pdflatex won't work correctly for this, for some 
reason I can't remember.

I think CTAN has the webomints font and samples to download, IIRC. I 
think you'll also want the umrand package, which AFAICT /doesn't/ come 
with TL09. Attached is something I did last year as a souvenir card. I 
was able to do it with XeLaTeX --- although I can't say I remember much, 
but you can noodle with the source and see what happens.

HTH.


-- 
United in adoration of Jesus, 



fr. michael gilmary, mma

Most Holy Trinity Monastery
67 Dugway Road
Petersham, MA 01366-9725


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