In LaTeX, there is by default no way to put a picture on the title page or cover page that is produced by \maketitle. Surprisingly, no package seemed to exist for this either. Until now, because I wrote it.
The package titlepic.sty, which can be downloaded from CTAN, is very simple and easy to use. Install it by putting it in your texmf tree and rehashing, or simply drop titlepic.sty in the same directory as your .tex source document. It works with the default document classes article, report and book.
Include it as normal, with \usepackage{titlepic}. Then, along with the usual \title, \author and \date, put a command like the following:
\titlepic{\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{cover.jpg}}
The argument to \titlepic will usually be an \includegraphics command, but it can actually be pretty much anything. The output produced by this argument will be typeset centered on the title page when you invoke \maketitle. (When you use the article document class, be sure to pass it the titlepage option, because articles do not have a title page by default.)
There are three optional arguments that control the vertical layout of the title page:
tt- Put both the title (and author, and date) and the picture at the top of the page, separated by a fixed amount of space.
tc- Put the title at the top of the page as with
tt, but center the picture vertically on the page. cc- Separate the title and the picture by a fixed amount of space, and center both together vertically on the page.
A full manual is also available. I hope this is of some use to someone. Enjoy!
32 comments:
Thank you for creating this package, it has worked very nicely.
Just as a query, does the package provide any way of switching the print order of title and graphic, so that the graphic might be placed above the title text?
Good work.
-it
Sorry, the current version does not support that. But you could have a look at the code... it shouldn't be too difficult to hack it in yourself.
I might give that a try.
Thanks again,
-it
Hi,
Thanks! It worked perfectly for me.
Greetings,
Tommy
Thanks! It worked great.
You can put the picture above the text by swapping the code
{\centering\@titlepic\par}
with
\begin{center}%
[...]
\end{center}\par
and leaving
\@tpsepspace%
in the middle of them
Worked perfectly on the first try, not often that happens. Thanks a lot.
/Jonas
thanks for this work.
You just saved my paper. I owe you one. Great package, man!
Hi I think i must be doing something wrong because nothing is happening with my picture, i am gettin no errors but it seems to be just ignoring it, this is the code i used above title author and \maketitle
\titlepic{
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[2cm,-1cm][5cm,5cm]{ucc.pdf}
\end{figure}
}
Kate, I think it doesn't work as a float. Include only the \includegraphics command.
Thanks! I'm surprised this isn't addressed by maketitle somehow.
Thanks for creating this package! It is very useful, it makes the article much nicer. Nice work!
Hello!
Im having some trouble!
I want to include the figure fleravalspar.eps but when creating the pdf file the figure is not there.
Whats wrong?
Thank you !
My code is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{titlepic}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\geometry{letterpaper,tmargin=2.5cm,bmargin=2.5cm,lmargin=2.5cm,rmargin=2.5cm}
\usepackage[layout=modern]{advancedcoverpage}
\title{my title}
\author{\emph{By}\\John Doe}
\titlepic{\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fleravalspar}}
\organization{\textsc{KTH}}
\date{June 2009}
\location{Stockholm}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
If you include an EPS file, you have to use latex (not pdflatex), then use dvips to convert the resulting DVI file to a PS file.
A possibly easier route is to convert the EPS file to a PDF file, for example using epstopdf. Then include the PDF file into your LaTeX document, and you can use pdflatex as normal.
It didn´t work when I was using a jpg file either..
I have always used .eps files with Latex. It always works..
How do you compile your file, exactly?
Does (pdf)latex spit out any messages?
I just use "quick build" in my texmaker.
and no, it doesn´t spit out any error message or warnings.
Oh! I now see what's wrong with your code!
As noted in my original post: "When you use the article document class, be sure to pass it the titlepage option, because articles do not have a title page by default."
So this should help:
\documentclass[titlepage]{article}
And, next time, I will drink my coffee before I answer. I now also see that you use the advancedcoverpage package. Unfortunately, this is not compatible with titlepic; you'll have to choose one or the other.
Hi Thomas
I'm sorry to trouble you but I'm brand new to LaTeX and trying to use your package.
I have the following code, but I keep getting "!Undefined control sequence"
I wondered if you can please help?
Have I left out a heap of important stuff??
Many thanks
Adrian.
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[cc]{titlepic} % Include the titlepic package.
\title{Report Title}
\author{Adrian McCallum}
\date{June 2009}
\titlepic{\includegraphics{greenland}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Like you figured out yourself, posted here for the record: you're missing \usepackage{graphicx}.
Thanks Thomas, much appreciated.
Cheers,
Adrian.
Thomas, you're a hero!
Having problems downloading the package
I know... the plug has been pulled on the server that was hosting it. I will see if I can host the package on CTAN instead.
The package has been submitted to CTAN. I'll update this post as soon as the maintainers put it online.
Hi. The package its available at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/titlepic.html
Thanks for the great work!
It don't works for me... no error or warning, but the image not appears.
When I use only "\includegraphics[width=350px]{./logo.jpg}" it works fine.
Any idea? Thanks.
Do you happen to be using the article class without the titlepage option?
Yeah! That's the problem. Thanks!
nice....very useful and time saving....thanks a lot to the author..
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