John,
you may have to rotate the thing (something like angle=90?)
greetings, el
On 2018-06-07 09:04 , John White wrote:
> Dr. Lisse,
>
> Brilliant! Thank you so much. This is clearly the best option, I
> still have to learn more before using it.
>
> For example, I get the error:
>
> "LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in lines.pdf (no
> BoundingBox)."
>
> But if I "show output anyway" I get lined paper. Lines are going
> horizontal rather than vertical, but nonetheless there is my text AND
> numbered lines in the same document!
>
> Thanks again!
>
> John
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:44:33 PM PDT Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> why don't you generate the lines separately into lines.pdf and then use
>> the background package in the preamble like so
>>
>> \usepackage{background}
>> \backgroundsetup{
>> contents={%
>> \includegraphics[width=\pagewidth]{lines.pdf}
>> },
>> angle=0,
>> scale=1.0,
>> opacity=1.0
>> }
>>
>> I do something like that with a lab request form, where I position
>> demographic data (with textpos) which remains searchable.
>>
>> greetings, el
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