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How can I design a book cover?

There is a relatively new package on CTAN, called bookcover. It seems to be quite straightforward to use and includes two examples.
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How to add backgorund zeros on a cover page of a documents like in the screen of Matrix movie?

I am a little confused with your question, therefore I am not sure whether this is an answer to your problem or not. If you want zeros randomly distributed in your page, yet positioned in a sort of "...
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Reproduce a ConTeXt book cover with LaTeX

In fact, using luamplib and just a handful of definitions, you can directly copy the MetaPost code from the Units manual and paste it into your LaTeX document. \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \...
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Page Border for cover page in LaTeX

Here is a tikz solution: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \begin{document} \begin{titlepage} \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay,inner sep=0,outer sep=0] ...
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Cover Page with TikZ

There are better ways of doing it, but following your initial code you could use something like: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage[paper=a4paper,margin=.5in]{geometry} \...
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How include MetaPost from ConTeXt to LaTeX?

You can copy-paste this more or less. You're lucky because the luamplib supports the MetaFun format. \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{eso-pic} \usepackage{luamplib} \...
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Trying to Entirely Fill a 5.5 x 8.5 Book Cover with Color

Try this code. The pspicture environment starts a new (indented) paragraph. To suppress it add \noindent before. \documentclass[12pt]{book} \usepackage[hmargin=0in,vmargin=0in,paperwidth=5.5in,...
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Back Cover with summay/information

In a double sided KOMA-Script document you can use \cleardoubleevenpage before the back cover. On the back cover page use \thispagestyle{empty} or \pagestyle{empty}. Example: \documentclass{scrbook} \...
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Cover in latex problem to setting a vertical rule

Lord Snow needs to learn that by using \\ to break lines he is helping the Underfull King on his quest to bring the Long Misalignment upon the realm of the living. He may have the entire army of ...
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Unnumbered back cover + blank page before chapter

With the emptypage package, you could achieve your goal. If empty, even pages before a new chapter are really blank. And the back of your cover is also completely blank. No need of your blank ...
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Manually create APA journal cover page

I have no idea if this is generally useful to people, but here's a package which uses the apa6 code modified to avoid name clashes. It allows you to create an APA journal style title page. It leaves ...
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Randomly generate a book cover

One could use fractals and randomize their size, color, ... % Based on: % - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/230228 % - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/374351 % - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/...
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Front Cover for document part 3

A regular node (with all positioning options) can be used for the logo, something like: \node[blur shadow, anchor=north west] at ($(current page.north west)+(1,-1)$) {\includegraphics[...
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Front Cover for document

You can overlay the text using TikZ nodes. You can even expand this to fill the entire page using [overlay] and (current page). \documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \...
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No text processed after cover page in ConTeXt

When a document contain a \startTEXpage command without a previous \starttext (or \startcomponent etc.) the following \stopTEXpage marks the end of the document and everything after it is ignored.
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Cover pages with the Memoir Class

Setting the page number In general, yo can use \setcounter{page}{1} to restart the numeration in the actual page, but if you use \frontmatter and \mainmatter commands you do not need that (see ...
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How to typeset a cover page with an image

Using textpos is a possibility. You place the image in one textblock-environment and title in another and change the the coordinates to suite you. It is not necessary to define a macro for each ...
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Creating a thesis cover page with two images

Like this? \documentclass{report} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{graphicx} % <=============================================== \newcommand{\titulo} {titulo} \newcommand{\alumnos} {...
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Playing with cover page style

This should get you started. \documentclass[a4paper,titlepage]{article} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \usepackage{titling} \...
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Reproduce a ConTeXt book cover with LaTeX

I think ultimately the correct way to solve this problem is with textpos, but it's certainly possible to do so with tables (as in the previous answer) or with creative mucking around with TeX boxes. ...
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How to change cover slide font size without affecting slide footer font size

You can modify the font settings with the \setbeamerfont{...}{family = ..., size = ..., series = ...} command in the preamble of the document: \setbeamerfont{author}{size = \large, series = \bfseries}...
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How to animate a changing monochrome computer screen from "The Matrix" movie using Tikz?

Here is a MWE. Colors and opacity are your duty. % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode % !TEX TS-program = xelatex \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \def\PMS{\pgfmathsetmacro} \usepackage{fontspec} \...
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Unnumbered back cover + blank page before chapter

IMHO, what you want is almost the default of KOMA-Script class scrbook: \documentclass[headings=standardclasses,headsepline]{scrbook} \let\MakeMarkcase\MakeUppercase \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{...
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A5 booklet with single image as cover

As mentioned in the comments there are a ton of different solutions shown over here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/163671/140011 Regarding your problem: This is most likely a path problem - while \...
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How can I add a front cover with an image

Do you want something like this? \documentclass[a4paper,11pt,titlepage]{article} \usepackage[headheight=50pt, left=10mm, right=15mm, top=30mm, bottom=20mm]{geometry} \usepackage[parfill]{parskip} \...
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How do I add a side text to my document

This is an really odd solution. It is a quick hack. You have to polish a lot, to get those nifty fonts and shades (maybe TikZ could be a help, I have no idea!). \documentclass[12pt]{article} \...
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