Tikz page

Small macro to help building nice and complex page layout materials.

Build

You can build the whole package using the make command.

Installation

To install the tkiz-page package copy its directory to either to:

• $TEXHOME/tex/latex/
• $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/
• ~/texmf/tex/latex/
• ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/

Usage

A simple page:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-page}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand{\tikzpagelayout}{
  \tpshowframes
  \tikzpageputanchors
}
\pagestyle{plain}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}

A more complex document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-page}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\definecolor{halfgray}{gray}{0.55}
\newcommand\anglei{-45}
\newcommand\angleii{45}
\newcommand\angleiii{225}
\newcommand\angleiv{135}
\newcommand{\tikzpagelayout}{
  \tpflip{
    \coordinate (aux1) at ([yshift=-15pt]page.northeast);
    \coordinate (aux2) at ([yshift=-410pt]page.northeast);
    \coordinate (aux3) at ([xshift=-4.5cm]page.northeast);
    \coordinate (aux4) at ([yshift=-150pt]page.northeast);
  }{
    \coordinate (aux1) at ([yshift=-15pt]page.northwest);
    \coordinate (aux2) at ([yshift=-410pt]page.northwest);
    \coordinate (aux3) at ([xshift=4.5cm]page.northwest);
    \coordinate (aux4) at ([yshift=-150pt]page.northwest);
    \renewcommand\anglei{-135}
    \renewcommand\angleii{135}
    \renewcommand\angleiii{-45}
    \renewcommand\angleiv{45}
  }
  \begin{scope}[halfgray!40,line width=12pt,rounded corners=12pt]
    \draw (aux1) -- coordinate (a) ++(\angleiii:5) -- ++(\anglei:5.1) coordinate (b);
    \draw[shorten <= -10pt] (aux3) -- (a) -- (aux1);
    \draw[opacity=0.6,halfgray,shorten <= -10pt] (b) -- ++(\angleiii:2.2) -- ++(\anglei:2.2);
  \end{scope}
  \draw[halfgray,line width=8pt,rounded corners=8pt,shorten <= -10pt]
  (aux4) -- ++(\angleiii:0.8) -- ++(\anglei:0.8);
  \begin{scope}[halfgray!70,line width=6pt,rounded corners=8pt]
    \draw[shorten <= -10pt] (aux2) -- ++(\angleiii:3) coordinate[pos=0.45] (c) -- ++(\anglei:3.1);
    \draw (aux2) -- (c) -- ++(\angleiv:2.5) -- ++(\angleii:2.5) -- ++(\anglei:2.5) coordinate[pos=0.3] (d);   
    \draw (d) -- +(\angleii:1);
  \end{scope}
}
\pagestyle{plain}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}

See tikz-page.pdf for further help.

Example

License

This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.

This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in:

http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2006/05/20 or later.