Using floating pictures to create page backgrounds

You can create more visually appealing documents by adding a background image to the document pages. It can be a roll of old parchment, a decorative page frame, or a logo watermark:

On the Web, you can find many different background images, both free and paid. You can also design your own image.

Here is how to add a background image to a document in Atlantis:

1. Choose the "Header & Footer..." command of the "View" menu, or click the corresponding button of the View toolbar .
2. If the background image is available on the Windows clipboard, just press CtrlV to paste. If the background image is stored on a disk as a graphic file, use the "Picture..." command of the "Insert" menu, or the corresponding button of the Insert toolbar to insert your graphic file.
3. Click the inserted image to select it:
   
4. Click the "Picture layout" button of the "Picture" context toolbar, and choose "Behind text" as a text wrapping style:
   
5. Resize and reposition the image with the mouse in the desired way:
   
6. Click the "Close header/footer" button of the "Header & Footer" context toolbar to switch to the document main text.
7. You are now ready to start adding actual text to your document:
   

Note that when the document main text is active, the headers and footers are dimmed. This is an onscreen display only, and the headers/footers will print in full color. For the WYSIWYG preview, use the "Print Preview" command of the "File" menu, or click the corresponding button of the File toolbar .

You can download the sample document file used in this article by clicking here.

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