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I'd like to include a graphic as watermark in a document with the twoside option and asymmetric page margins adjusted with the geometry package. There's a plethora of packages that are suitable for the task, but with a few restrictions:

The xwatermark package is simple to use, but I can't specify options for even and odd pages at the same time, so either the watermark appears only on half of the pages or it's page-centered rather than text-centered.
With packages such as watermark, I can't exclude the watermark on specific pages, e.g. the title page and certain pages with diagrams.
Lastly, packages like atbegshi provide access to dvi internals, but I don't have the time to work it all out myself.

So my question is: what is the most elegant way to implement such a flexible watermark? If it is relevant, I'm currently using LaTeX with PSTricks on Windows 7, but may well switch to ConTeXt with PGF/TikZ on Linux in the future...

Thanks in advance.

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    If the watermark package otherwise works, why can't you use its \thiswatermark{} command to place an empty watermark on the pages you don't want to have watermarks on? – Alan Munn Feb 6 '11 at 18:28
  • @alan-munn as it turned out, I just messed up the \put command--now it works fine. And since its position is relative to the text area, I don't need to distinguish between even and odd pages... – pazathoth Feb 7 '11 at 15:38
  • I suggest closing this question then, since it was based on a miscoding rather than an actual problem with the packages mentioned. – Alan Munn Feb 7 '11 at 18:38
  • In xwatermark package use two separate calls to \newwatermark to specify different options for even and odd pages. A minimal example will be useful here. – Ahmed Musa Nov 10 '12 at 18:18
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You could also go with tikz. Page 170 in the PGF & TIKZ manual shows an example.

\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node [rotate=60,scale=10,text opacity=0.2]
at (current page.center) {Example};
\end{tikzpicture}
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