CTAN has a new package: background

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The background package Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Gonzalo Medina Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: Offers the placement of background material on the pages of a document. License type: lppl Announcement text:

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The `background' package v1.0 offers the placement of background material on the pages of a document. The user can control many aspects (i.e., contents, position, color, opacity) of the background material that will be displayed.

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This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/background . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/background (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .