In this video, you will learn how to insert a cover page in
your latech document. This is a cover page and I have created
this PDF document in latech typesetting software and this is
my title page. I will also show you how you can insert our logo
image or any image inside the title page of a latex document.
I will also show you how you can create this cover page in Canva
browser based free software which are used to create my
cover pages or my media posts. Also the thumbnails of my
YouTube videos. I create all these in Canva and I will show
you how to create this cover page in a minute. But the main
purpose of this video is to show you how you can incite a cover
page in your latex document. And I am a big fan of latex. If you
see the description of my videos, you will see a long list
of latex resources where you can learn how to create a document
in latex and why we should create documents in latex
because of the professional quality. As you can see, I have
zoomed this document to 100%. This is the actual size. And you
can see how beautiful are these fonts, everything looks hundred
percent professional, the heading the fonts the header,
you will not find this professional look in any other
typesetting software such as word or OpenOffice and latex
also take cares of all this numbering for you this table of
contents and everything. Let's zoom out a little bit. So if you
are up ebook writer, this video is useful for you. And at the
end, I will show you how you can get the latech template of this
document. Of course, I will change this text and my name and
these things. But you will get the template and you can just
put your own text and create your ebook instantly if you know
how to use latex. And if you don't know how to use latex in
my description, there is a free webinar, you can register in
that webinar. It's a 45 minute webinar and you will learn
everything to get started in using latex and then you just
put this template inside your latex editor compile it and your
document will be ready so please watch this video full. So let's
first start how to put this PDF in your latex document. So now I
am inside my latex editor and it has two parts on the left hand
side I have my latech program and on the right hand side I
have the PDF as you can see that I am not using too many packages
I am just using a geometric package graphics package fancy
header and these are the two packages which I am using to
perform these two tasks to insert the PDF I am using this
package PDF pages and to insert the logo image in my title page
I'm using this title pic package one thing you will notice here
that my document class is ext article it is not article
normally we use class article for latex documents but I'm
using x article and the reason for using this x article class
is that these normal classes like article report and book
classes they support 10.2 12 point sizes so you can have
phone size of 10 point 11 point or 12 point but these three
classes x article, extra report and x book and there are also
some other x letter and these some other but I am not
mentioning those here. So these x classes they are also called x
size classes in latech they support these sizes as well
8.2 12 points so you have additional eight and nine points
on the lower side. Then on the upper side you have three extra
sizes, 14 points 17 point and 20 point so because I wanted to use
14 point size so therefore I am using extra article because this
size looks good for reading in my opinion, it's my personal
opinion. So you might want 17 point or 12 point it's up to you
and for certain digital products 17 point will look even better
if there is less text and now let us see how we can insert the
logo image and the PDF cover page for logo image we will use
use package title pic as I mentioned earlier, and the
command which we have to use is this backslash title p then we
start a curly bracket backslash include graphics, then we start
a square bracket and we put the width of the image and then in
the curly brackets we put the name of the image file and then
we close the first curly bracket and to insert any PDF cover page
we have to use this package use package PDF pages and then after
the beginning document we give this command in yellow backslash
include PDF and inside the square bracket. We mentioned how
many pages and then we give this command paper, so it will
optimize the fitting of the cover page. And then this is the
PDF file name, we don't put dot PDF, just the name of the PDF
file and this file should be in the same folder. And then
normally in latex when we want to make a title, we just say, MC
title, backslash MC title, but it is a good practice to make a
title like this begin title page, then make title and then
entitled page. So these few lines you have to include after
the begin document, and that is it very simple, you have to put
just these few lines of code and your cover page will be inserted
and your logo image will be inserted inside your document.
So this is what I have done inside my document. As you can
see these 14 point x article, then I'm using these two
packages here, then I'm inserting the logo image inside
my title. Then after the begin document, I am inserting my
cover page. And then I am creating the title of the
document like this, then you just simply run it
and it will create the PDF. But you have to click on this arrow
in tech maker to see the latest PDF. And now I will show you how
I created this cover page in Canva. And now let us see how we
can create a beautiful cover page for our digital products in
Canva, you have to create an account with canva.com. And then
you just type canva.com. And on the left hand side, you click on
Create a design. Now I want to create a design of a4 size. And
here I have a sizes in millimeters, you can get this
information, just type A sizes in millimeter in Google and you
will get this chart and I am interested only in a4 size which
has a dimensions of 210 width and 297 millimeter height. So
what I do is I click on custom dimensions. And first I have to
select millimeters in units. And then 210
and 297 is my height.
And I click on Create design.
On the right hand side, I get a blank page and on the left hand
side, I get a lot of templates. And if I scroll down, as you can
see that there are hundreds of templates available for you to
use. And this is the template I used in this document. So I
click on that, and it fills with this document with the template.
No, you can change this text, just click here. And then you
can change this text whatever you want. If you want an author
name here, so you click on elements. And then you click on
this rectangle, you can resize this rectangle like this, and I
have copied to like delete this one. And then you click on that
and then click on this color icon. And then you can change
this color to white. Now in order to write the text inside
this, on the left hand side there is a text icon, click on
text, then you will see a lot of text templates are available
here. So you can select any of these. So let's say I select
this one, it will appear here. And no I don't want these smart
text I only I'm only interested in this big one. So you just
click on ungroup here, and no you click on these small ones
and delete them like this. And then you click the large one,
put it here. You can resize this, like this, center it and
then you can just type your name here. Something like this. So
this is how you can create the cover page. Once you finish
this, you see this arrow just click on this arrow. And you
have couple of download options. png is the suggested option but
you click on this little arrow and then you click on PDF
standard few click here. And now you can download this file in
the PDF format. And then you save it as cover page and then
whatever is the name of the file, you just give it here very
simple. So this is all you can insert a cover page inside your
latex document. Now the last thing is if you want to get a
template which is this document that txt file on the left hand
side if you want this file in the description of this video,
there is a link for digit idea community mailing list so you
join our community. So there will be three places for you to
write your name, your email address, and then there is a
place for message in the message you just type that you want
digital product cover page template, and once I get that
email I will send you the latex template for ebook. So I hope
that you find this video useful. If so, please give it a thumbs
up. Thanks for watching and see you next time.