Page Layout ⇒ Changing background color of just 1 page

[martacl]

Hi,

I would like to change the background color of one page of my document. I thought I would do by creating a minipage and defining its background color, but I don't know how to do it.
I've tried by definint a box (mbox, fbox, makebox,...) but all of them define a box "inside" the page but leave the margins de same color as the rest of the document.
Anybody can help me?

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can use the \pagecolor command provided by the xcolor package; please refer to the package documentation for further information. A little example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}%just to generate some text

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-4]
\newpage

\pagecolor{purple!30}
\lipsum[1-4]

\newpage
\pagecolor{white}
\lipsum[1-4]

\end{document}

[martacl]

Thanks! It works fine!