The pdfoverlay package provides a simple interface to overlay text on to an existing PDF. The text to be overlaid is typeset and positioned normally as you would any other LaTeX document. Some or all of the pages of the PDF can be included and not all pages of the PDF need have overlaid text. It’s also possible to include text between pages of the PDF.

pdfoverlay is in TeXLive and MiKTeX and can be installed in the usual way through your distribution. E.g., in TeXLive by running:

tlmgr install pdfoverlay

Download and unpack pdfoverlay.zip from CTAN at https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfoverlay

Change to the pdfoverlay directory, then run:

tex pdfoverlay.ins

to generate pdfoverlay.sty.

Copy pdfoverlay.sty to $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/pdfoverlay/ and pdfoverlay.pdf to $TEXMFHOME/doc/latex/pdfoverlay/.

You can find $TEXMFHOME by running:

kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME

pdfoverlay uses the l3build system.

Clone the git repository using:

git clone https://github.com/dcpurton/pdfoverlay.git

Change to the pdfoverlay directory, and then the style file (pdfoverlay.sty) and documentation (pdfoverlay.pdf) can be installed by running:

l3build install --full

Copyright (c) 2018-2022 David Purton <[email protected]>

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
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or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this
license is in
   http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
version 2005/12/01 or later.

This work is "maintained" (as per the LPPL maintenance status)
by David Purton.

This work consists of the files pdfoverlay.ins, pdfoverlay.dtx, README.md,
and the derived files pdfoverlay.sty and pdfoverlay.pdf