[texhax] Overpic and placing defined blocks of text

[richard terry]

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I"m printing ontop of a AU Govt 
centrelink medical certificate form for my clinical software (don't use 
commercial stuff here as it is crap).

I'm pretty much a latex novice so struggle a bit.

In the meantime I found:

\put(15,143){\parbox[b]{85 mm}{ \footnotesize !primary-condition-symptoms}}

seems to work ok. Not sure why the 'b' param makes sure its up at the 
top instead of the 't' param which pushes it down to the bottom of the 
designated area, however for my purposes this seems to work.

I"ll keep in mind the tikz stuff and take a look when I've time.

thanks again for replying, glad I've found the list!

Regards

Richard





On 24/09/15 00:05, Lars Madsen wrote:
> as always in this kind of problems, please provide some code, then we have a better opportunity to help.
>
> That being said, I've found tikz a lot easier to work with in placing stuff on top of an image.
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
> \usepackage{graphicx,tikz}
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{tikzpicture}
>    % (0,0) now lies in the lower left hand corner of the image
>    \node[inner sep=0pt,anchor =south west] at (0,0)
>    {\includegraphics[width=8cm]{example-image-a}};
>    % help grip easier to know where to place stuff, delete when done.
>    \draw[very thin,opacity=0.25] (-1,-1) grid [step=5mm] (9,7);
>    \node[red] at (3,4) {Some text};
> \end{tikzpicture}
>
> \end{document}
>
> (the image comes along with the mwe package)
>
>
> I've left the overpic package when I noticed problems when you add legends outside the image, then the size (seen from LaTeX) of the image, does not change. Thus centering looks strange.
>
> This does not happen when using the tikz approach
>
>
>
>
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: texhax [texhax-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of richard terry [rterry at internode.on.net]
> Sent: 23 September 2015 00:31
> To: texhax at tug.org
> Subject: [texhax] Overpic and placing defined blocks of text
>
> Hi List,
>
> Hope this reaches the list, my first post. To put this in context I've
> used a little bit of latex, nothing really complex and relative novice
> without a good computer brain.
>
> I've just used it to print data out onto forms, sometimes generate
> de-novo, at other times as in the case of this question, using overpic
> to print onto an existing PDF form.
>
> Mostly the text I have to put on the form is really basic like
> name/address etc, in which case I just use \put.
>
> I have several spots on my latest form I need to put a larger amount of
> text in a text block at (x,y) with a certain width in cm and hieght in cm.
>
> I've looked at a number of possible commands and can't seem to get any
> to work.
>
> I wondered if anyone who uses overpic can give me a concrete example
> (not just the syntax)  of how to do this.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> Richard
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