Page Layout ⇒ How to add text/image in the left/right margin on every page

[kumthekar]

Hi all:

I am trying to repeat some text (or even an image) in the left and right margins of every page. I am new to LaTeX. Is there any package that will let me do this? I am aware of fancyhdr, but as far as I could see it affects only headers and footers on each page.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Bala.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Bala,

welcome to the board!
You could use atbegshi or everyshi.

As you mentioned fancyhdr: it would be possible using fancyhdr or scrpage2 as well, for example together with TikZ and the current page node. Here are examples: Fancy chapter headings with TikZ.

Stefan

[kumthekar]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks a lot for your pointers. I am able to get *almost* what I am looking for with atbegshi. Here is the code:

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\documentclass[12pt]{exam}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\usepackage{textpos}
\usepackage{shadow}
\usepackage{draftwatermark}
\usepackage{rotating}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\TPGrid{8}{11}
\AtBeginShipout{%
  \begin{textblock}{3}(-0.5,4)
    \begin{turn}{-90}
      Text on the left margin
    \end{turn}
  \end{textblock}
  \begin{textblock}{3}(6,4)
    \begin{turn}{-90}
      Text on the right margin
    \end{turn}
  \end{textblock}%
}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{headandfoot}
\header{\bfseries Txt 1}{\bfseries Txt 2}{\bfseries Txt 3}
\headrule
\footrule
\footer{}{\copyright whatever}{\thepage/\numpages}

\hfill
\shabox{\parbox[l]{2in}{X1: \\X2: August 21, 2009\\X3: }}

  \blinddocument

\end{document}

I can see the text in the margins starting from page 2. Why is that? What am I missing? Why not starting from page 1? Also, there is an extra empty page number 4 where at the bottom right corner it says 4/3, which is not correct.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Bala.