Latex - Is it possible to have text on top of images?

Question

I want to create something like a leaflet/magazine using Latex. Is it possible to place text on top of an image and style the text freely?

Any links to examples of something like this?

Answer 1

I usually do something like

\usepackage{tikz}
...
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \draw (0, 0) node[inner sep=0] {\includegraphics[width=4cm]{imagefile.png}};
    \draw (1, 1) node {Hello world};
\end{tikzpicture}

Answer 2

A very good toolset for manipulating images is pgf/TikZ pdf doc.

See \pgfimage for examples. It allows to mix text and image freely. There are many ways to do it. One of them is to use layers (p. 220 of pgfmanual). The pgf manual contains many simple examples, and is very precise.

Another solution is to use the lpic package: the homepage contains some examples.

You can find other examples for pfg and TikZ here and here for many impressive examples.

Answer 3

Another solution is the textpos package which allows you to specify boxes at absolute positions on the page. The boxes can overlap, so you can put the figure in one box, and text in another box on top of it.

Answer 4

I realise that the question is old and answer is accepted, but for completeness would like to propose an alternative approach for making leaflets in LaTeX.

Specifically, the leaflet document style served me really well for this purpose.

A good blog post wrt background image can be found here. There are a couple of packages that are required to use in order to make the proposed approach work, but were not mentioned in the blog post:

\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{transparent}