Adding a header to the right hand top corner from a specific page

Question

This is how my page looks:

What I want to do is, add a header to the blackened portion in this image:

These are the settings that I am already using:

\documentclass[letter, 10pt]{report}\normalsize
\usepackage{amsmath,utopia}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{footnote}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{needspace}
\makesavenoteenv{tabular}
\textwidth 7.5in
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.75in}
\textheight 9.5in
\pagestyle{plain}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-0.75in}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.73cm}
\topskip 0in
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\newenvironment{boxedlaw}[1]
  {\begin{Sbox}\begin{minipage}{#1}\centering}
  {\end{minipage}\end{Sbox}\begin{center}\fbox{\TheSbox}\end{center}}
\usepackage{cutwin}
\opencutright


\usepackage{background}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\SetBgScale{1}
\SetBgAngle{0}
\SetBgColor{brown}
\SetBgContents{
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
    \draw [line width=3pt,rounded corners=0pt]
        ($ (current page.north west) + (0.4in,-0.4in) $)
        rectangle
        ($ (current page.south east) + (-0.4in,0.4in) $);
\end{tikzpicture}
}

\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\definecolor{mycolor}{HTML}{F8E0E0}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\normalfont\bfseries\LARGE}
  {\chaptertitlename~\thechapter}{0.5pc}
  {{\color{brown}\titlerule[2pt]}\vspace{0.1pc}\MakeUppercase}
\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
  {\normalfont\bfseries\LARGE}{}{0.5pc}
  {\MakeUppercase}

The header will be some static text. Not section names or page numbers. However I want it to start from the point I want. That is, I dont want that header on the first few pages. And I want it on every page after that. Is there a simple way to do it?

Answer 1

Here I want to propose another solution, using the titleps package; the basic idea is to define a new page style which I called special; using \pagestyle{special} this new page style can be activated; since you also want to include the special text in the first page of some chapter(s), a redefinition of the plain style is also needed. Using \begingroup, \endgroup, the changes can be kept local (so you can apply the new style only to some page(s)). The code:

\documentclass[letterpaper, 10pt]{report}
\usepackage{amsmath,utopia}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{footnote}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{needspace}
\makesavenoteenv{tabular}
\textwidth 7.5in
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.75in}
\textheight 9.5in
\pagestyle{plain}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-0.75in}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.73cm}
\topskip 0in
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\newenvironment{boxedlaw}[1]
  {\begin{Sbox}\begin{minipage}{#1}\centering}
  {\end{minipage}\end{Sbox}\begin{center}\fbox{\TheSbox}\end{center}}
\usepackage{cutwin}
\opencutright


\usepackage{background}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\SetBgScale{1}
\SetBgAngle{0}
\SetBgColor{brown}
\SetBgContents{
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
    \draw [line width=3pt,rounded corners=0pt]
        ($ (current page.north west) + (0.4in,-0.4in) $)
        rectangle
        ($ (current page.south east) + (-0.4in,0.4in) $);
\end{tikzpicture}
}

\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\definecolor{mycolor}{HTML}{F8E0E0}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\normalfont\bfseries\LARGE}
  {\chaptertitlename~\thechapter}{0.5pc}
  {{\color{brown}\titlerule[2pt]}\vspace{0.1pc}\MakeUppercase}
\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
  {\normalfont\bfseries\LARGE}{}{0.5pc}
  {\MakeUppercase}

\usepackage{lipsum}% just for the example
\usepackage{titleps}

% command to store the fixed text that will go in the header
\newcommand\SpecialText{\raisebox{-1em}{Some fixed text}}

% definition of the new special page style to include the fixed text
\newpagestyle{special}
  {\sethead{}{}{\SpecialText}\setfoot{}{\thepage}{}}

\begin{document}


\begingroup% to keep the change local
\pagestyle{special}
% since the first page of a chapter internally uses the plain page style
% we locally redefine this style to include the fixed text
\renewpagestyle{plain}
  {\sethead{}{}{\SpecialText}\setfoot{}{\thepage}{}}
\chapter{Test Chapter}
\lipsum[1-20]
\endgroup% to keep the change local

\chapter{Test Chapter}
\lipsum[1-20]

\end{document}

And an image showing the special text in the first page of a chapter:

If you want to apply the special style to a single page different from the first page of a chapter, you can simply invoke

\thispagestyle{special}

somewhere in the material that will go in that page.

Answer 2

Your code is not complete and minimal. However, the feature requested can be achieved fancyhdr:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum} %<-----provides dummy text, remove in your file
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=1in,showframe]{geometry} % <-----remove showframe and alter other things in your file
%---------------------------------------------
\fancypagestyle{mystyle}{%
\fancyhf{}   % Clear all headers and footers first
\fancyhead[L]{}
\fancyhead[R]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[draw=brown,very thick,outer color=magenta!30,inner color=white, rectangle, rounded corners=.3cm] at ([xshift=-4.5cm,yshift=-2cm]current page.north east) {My text comes here};
\end{tikzpicture}
}%
%\setlength{\headsep}{1.1in} % if needed you can change this value
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}%
%Change the values in xshift and yshift as per your needs
%---------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-5]
\newpage
\pagestyle{mystyle}
\lipsum[6-8]
\end{document}

The pages with no header:

Pages with header:

You may tweak this style to suit your text and taste.