Suggestions for background

The following packages have something in common with the package background. The packages are ordered in decreasing similarity.

• contour: Print a coloured contour around text
• colorframed: Fix color problems with the package “framed”
• decorule: Decorative swelled rule using font character
• fancypar: Decoration of individual paragraphs
• shadethm: Theorem environments that are shaded
• shadow: Shadow boxes
• thmbox: Decorate theorem statements
• shadowtext: Produce text with a shadow behind it
• longfbox: Draw framed boxes with standard CSS attributes that can break over multiple pages
• pagegrid: Print page grid in background
• framed: Framed or shaded regions that can break across pages
• niceframe: Support for fancy frames
• boites: Boxes that may break across pages
• aeb-tilebg: AeB Tiling Backgrounds
• xwatermark: Graphics and text watermarks on selected pages
• pst-vectorian: Printing ornaments
• froufrou: Fancy section separators
• sectionbreak: LaTeX support for section breaks
• gridpapers: Graph paper backgrounds and color schemes
• gradback: Gradient backgrounds for dvips output
• bidipagegrid: Bidi-aware page grid in background
• mdframed: Framed environments that can split at page boundaries
• multicolrule: Decorative rules between columns
• bidicontour: Bidi-aware coloured contour around text
• bidishadowtext: Bidi-aware shadow text
• magicwatermark: An easy and flexible way to set watermarks
• fadingimage: Add full width fading pictures at the top or bottom of a page
• attachfile2: Attach files into PDF
• attachfile: Attach arbitrary files to a PDF document
• pdfmarginpar: Generate marginpar-equivalent PDF annotations
• pst-pdf: Make PDF versions of graphics by processing between runs