The xcoffins
package of LaTeX3 allows for some interesting designs, especially for title pages. However, I found documentation lacking. Here, using the example of a report for my school, I show how you can use the xcoffins
package to attain a relatively simple design. For a walk-through, see my blog post.
I have ripped the used images off the public websites of the respective institutions. They provide high-resolution .eps
files, but those are behind a login-wall, so I'm not clear on the permission to provide them publicly. You can use the package epstopdf
to deal with .eps
files in LaTeX.
The font I'm using here, DIN Pro
, is a proprietary font. It needs to be installed on the system in order for this to work. If that's not possible for you, just replace the references in main.tex
to another font that you do have installed.
In order to include fonts in a non-ridiculously complicated fashion, I used the fontspec
package, but the usual, standard engine, pdflatex
doesn't support that, so you'll have to use/install XeLaTeX
(or alternatively LuaLaTeX
I think).