Page Layout ⇒ Absolute Positioning of Boxes?

[EFaden]

Hey All,

Not quite sure the correct way to go about this, but I have some text I want to layout in a very particular way. Basically I want to create text boxes (fboxes, saveboxes, or something) on a sheet, but be able to position them absolutely.

For example (Boxes Specified By 2 Corners):
Papersize is 8.5 x 11
Box 1 - (0,0) -> (4.25, 5.5)
Box 2 - (4.25, 0) -> (8.5, 5.5)
Box 3 - (0, 5.5) -> (4.25, 11)
Box 4 - (4.25, 5.5) -> (8.5, 11)

What this should yield is a 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper divided into 4 subpages/boxes where I can place text. I am trying to do more complex things, but if I can get this to work the rest should be fine. What's the best/correct way to do this? I can't really provide a MWE... in fact thats kind of what I am asking for.

-Eric

[localghost]

The textpos package is probably what you are looking for.


Thorsten

[EFaden]

Partially. I saw that, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to restrict to a vertical size.

[localghost]

A minipage environment of a certain height might help.