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I've been searching around but I can't find any info for adding an image background for my code listing using the listings package. Is there a way to do this?

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As PolGab says, there is always a tikz way. Here is one that uses the infamous \tikzmark to mark the begin and end of the listing, and then adds an image clipped to the size of the listing:

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Note:

Issues:

This however has some serious issues:

  • A blank line is required before the listing (surprising result otherwise).

  • Not sure why the fudge facts were required, but they end up aligning the frame to pretty close to where the fram=tb option would have drawn the horizontal lines.

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing}

\newcommand{\tikzmark}[1]{\tikz[overlay,remember picture] \node (#1) {};}

\newcommand*{\AddBackgroundImage}[4][]{%
%\pgfmathsetmacrp{\height}{}%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
    \coordinate (VCenter) at ($(#2)!0.5!(#3)$);
    \coordinate (Fudge) at (-\pgflinewidth,0);
    \coordinate (VFudge) at (0,\baselineskip);
    %\draw [red, thick,fill=yellow, fill opacity=0.2]% for debugging
    \clip
            ($(#2)+ (Fudge) - 0.50*(VFudge)$) -- 
            ($(#2) + (\linewidth,0) - 0.50*(VFudge)$) -- 
            ($(#3) + (\linewidth,0) + 1.25*(VFudge)$) --
            ($(#3)+ (Fudge) + 1.25*(VFudge)$) -- cycle;
    \path (VCenter) -- ++($(0.5*\linewidth,0)$) 
    node [opacity=0.3, #1] {\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{#4}};
    \end{tikzpicture}%
}%


\lstset{
    language=C,
    basicstyle=\small\sffamily,
    %frame=tb,
    numbers=left,
    xleftmargin=5.0ex,
    numberstyle=\tiny,
    numbersep=4pt,
    stepnumber=2,
    keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries
    }

\lstset{emph={%  Adjust any special keywords
    printf%
    },emphstyle={\color{red}\bfseries}%
}%


\begin{document}
\noindent
Here is an example of listings with a background image:

\noindent% Line above MUST be blank
\tikzmark{Start}%
\begin{lstlisting}
/* Hello World program */

#include<stdio.h>

struct cpu_info {
    long unsigned utime, ntime, stime, itime;
    long unsigned iowtime, irqtime, sirqtime;
};

main()
{
    printf("Hello World");
}\end{lstlisting}
\tikzmark{End}
\AddBackgroundImage{Start}{End}{images/EiffelWide}%
%
\noindent
Some text afterwards.
\end{document}
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    Very beautiful background... But the original question is "It there a way to do this" and not "How to do this". ;-) Jul 17, 2012 at 11:49
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    @PolGab -- Come on. Give a guy a break! :-)
    – Eric
    Jul 19, 2012 at 3:47
  • Tried using this technique with the beamer package. Did not work. I just get a grey box around the listing.
    – Eric
    Jul 21, 2012 at 16:49
  • If the codes are long enough to span multiple pages, then what happen? :-) Jul 21, 2012 at 17:02
  • @HiggsBoson: Yep, this solution won't work in that case. Jul 21, 2012 at 18:35

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