I am writing a document and I need to insert a background on only the third page (which is sort of a second cover of the document), but I have troubles in doing it, since all I tried resulted in the image not appearing or a background with the word "Draft".
\documentclass[epsfig,a4paper,11pt,titlepage,twoside,openany]{book}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{plain}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[paperheight=29.7cm,paperwidth=21cm,outer=1.5cm,inner=2.5cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry} % layout setting
\usepackage{titlesec} % custom setup title of chanpter
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[inkscapeformat=pdf]{svg}
\usepackage[pages=some]{background}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\newcommand\BackgroundPic{%
\put(0,0){%
\parbox[b][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill
\centering
\includesvg[width=\paperwidth]{logo.svg}
\vfill
}}}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\input{front}
\cleardoublepage
\BgThispage
\lipsum[1-3]
\cleardoublepage
With this code the result is the "Draft" word appearing as the background image. I also tried to use a png image, thinking that the svg conversion could be the problem, but apparently it's not since using a png image results in the same "Draft" word appearing in the background.
EDIT: As a minimal reproducible example:
\documentclass[epsfig,a4paper,11pt,titlepage,twoside,openany]{book}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{plain}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[paperheight=29.7cm,paperwidth=21cm,outer=1.5cm,inner=2.5cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry} % layout setting
\usepackage{titlesec} % custom setup title of chanpter
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[inkscapeformat=pdf]{svg}
\usepackage[pages=some]{background}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\newcommand\BackgroundPic{%
\put(0,0){%
\parbox[b][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill
\centering
\includesvg[width=\paperwidth]{logo.png}
\vfill
}}}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % Windows;
\singlespacing
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\cleardoublepage
\BgThispage
\lipsum[1-3]
\cleardoublepage
\end{document}
The image, saved as logo is found at the following Link
You no longer need all these eso-pic
and background
package. Latex now has a build in support for adding stuff to the background via its hook mechanism:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,titlepage,twoside,openany]{book}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{plain}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[paperheight=29.7cm,paperwidth=21cm,outer=1.5cm,inner=2.5cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry} % layout setting
\usepackage{titlesec} % custom setup title of chanpter
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[inkscapeformat=pdf]{svg}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Windows;
\singlespacing
\usepackage{tikz}
\AddToHookNext{shipout/background}{
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node at (current page.center) {
\includegraphics[width=16cm]{example-image-duck}
};
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\cleardoublepage
\lipsum[1-3]
\cleardoublepage
\end{document}