Page Layout ⇒ Crossing out an entire page.

[betonkalle]

Hallo @ all,


I'm currently facing the following problem: I want to submit a 35-page document, out of which ~ 15 pages, i.e. one entire chapter, will be irrelevant. But instead of deleting the text, I prefer to mark it as irrelevant. My first thought was to cross out every page/paragraph with a thin diagonal line. Does anyone know how to do this? Neither google nor the forum search engine were helpful.

If that is not possible, does anyone have a suggestion how I could mark the text?

Greetings

[localghost]

[...] If that is not possible, does anyone have a suggestion how I could mark the text? [...]

At the moment I have no idea how to mark pages as desired. As an alternative you could change the text color to let the text appear faded. The following example may be a first approach.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{xcolor} 
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
  \textcolor{gray!15}
  \blinddocument
  \normalcolor
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

I will search a little bit for a solution that comes closer to your wishes. But that may take some time.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

But instead of deleting the text, I prefer to mark it as irrelevant. My first thought was to cross out every page/paragraph with a thin diagonal line.

this could be done using TikZ and the current page node, here's a compilable example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\blindtext[5]
\clearpage
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
  \color{gray}
  \draw[line width=1ex] (current page.north west) --
                        (current page.south east);
  \draw[line width=1ex] (current page.north east) --
                        (current page.south west);
\end{tikzpicture}
\blindtext[8]
\end{document}

Stefan

[localghost]

With his post Stefan ended my research as I would have offered the same alternative. It should be remarked that his solution works best with A4 paper size. On letter paper the lines appear shifted vertically.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Thorsten,

On letter paper the lines appear shifted vertically.

interesting. Could you show that by an example? I've just tested it with letterpaper but did not notice a shifting.

Stefan

[betonkalle]

Thanks for the code localghost!

Your code works, but I would have to enter it for every single page. While that would certainly be feasible, I would be easier to draw a line across every page with a simple pdf editor. I guess my unfulfilled hope was to find some code which would fit neatly into the fancy pagestyle environment, so that I don't have to care about the actual placement of the text.

The easiest solution seems to be to use a different color.

[gmedina]

Using the titlesec package you can easily define a page style to be used for the pages that need a special treatment; here's an example using this package and a modified version of the code provided by Stefan_K:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pagestyles]{titlesec}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to automatically generate some text

\newpagestyle{mypage}{\sethead{}
  {\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
      \node [rotate=60,scale=8,text opacity=0.2]
      at (current page.center) {Ignore this page};
    \end{tikzpicture}}{}}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-6]
\clearpage
{\pagestyle{mypage}
\lipsum[1-20]}
\clearpage
\lipsum[1-6]

\end{document}

[localghost]

[...] Could you show that by an example? I've just tested it with letterpaper but did not notice a shifting. [...]

I should stop relying on on-line compilers that seem not to be up-to-date with their installation. Compiling on my system the code works properly. See the attached file for the improper output.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Here's an extension of my code above using fancyhdr and introducing a macro causing a crossed-out page style. Once called it could cross out a complete chapter, here 14 pages out of 30:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\newcommand*\CrossedOutPagestyle{%
  \chead{\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
    \color{gray}
    \draw[line width=1ex] (current page.north west) --
                          (current page.south east);
    \draw[line width=1ex] (current page.north east) --
                          (current page.south west);
  \end{tikzpicture}}}
\newcommand*\NormalPagestyle{%
  \chead{}}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand*\headrulewidth{0pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{}
\begin{document}
\blindtext[7]
\clearpage
\CrossedOutPagestyle
\Blinddocument
\clearpage
\NormalPagestyle
\Blinddocument
\end{document}

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Thorsten,

See the attached file for the improper output.

of course I believed that it could happen, I was just interested in finding the reason why. But an online compiler could hardly be examined.

Stefan