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Minimal example:

\documentclass{memoir} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begingroup \color{blue} \rule{\paperwidth}{7.5cm} \endgroup \end{document}

I just want to make a box which is blue, has paperwidth and is placed at the bottom and is 7.5cm high. How to do that?

Thank you very much in advance :)

PS! It would be nice if I also could write a text which begins 7 cm from the right edge and goes to maximum 2 cm of the right edge and starts two centimeters under the blue beginning and ends to cm before bottom (white text) :D

And a picture which is 2 cms from each edge of the paper (also in the blue box) and is 9 cm long.

Example picture

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    By "placed at the bottom" are you referring to the bottom of the page? Or the bottom of the text block? Perhaps you can provide us with a graphic of the output... even if you were to draw it on a piece of paper with a pen and include it in your post. Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 21:06
  • I am refering to the bottom of the page :) Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 21:22

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try this:

load these packs in the preamble

\usepackage{fancybox} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{calc}

then: 

\colorbox{blue}{ \parbox[b][7.5cm][t]{\textwidth}{\hspace*{7cm} \parbox[t][5.5cm][t]{\textwidth-9cm}{\textcolor{red}{\\[2cm] Some text that non makes sense\hfill at all,\vfill just for practicing\ldots\hfill the example }} %\makebox[0.5\textwidth-9cm][l]{ \textcolor{white}{Some text that non makes sense at all, just for practicing the example }} } }

this will produce this output : enter image description here

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Based on my answer at What are the ways to position things absolutely on the page?

REVISED to make solution with nested \stackinsets. Note: The text will be vertically centered in the white box.

\documentclass{memoir} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \thispagestyle{empty} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{everypage} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{stackengine} % THESE ARE LaTeX DEFAULTS; CAN CHANGE IF NEEDED. \def\PageTopMargin{1in} \def\PageLeftMargin{1in} \newcommand\atxy[3]{% \AddThispageHook{\smash{\hspace*{\dimexpr-\PageLeftMargin-\hoffset+#1\relax}% \raisebox{\dimexpr\PageTopMargin+\voffset-#2\relax}{#3}}}} \begin{document} \def\blocktext{% This is a test of text in my parbox. Will it wrap properly? I think it will.} \atxy{0in}{11in}{% \stackinset{r}{2.5cm}{c}{0cm}{\parbox[c]{4cm}{\blocktext}}{% \stackinset{l}{2cm}{b}{2cm}{\includegraphics[width=9cm,height=3.5cm]{example-image-a}}{% \stackinset{r}{2cm}{b}{2cm}{\textcolor{white}{\rule{5cm}{3.5cm}}}{% \textcolor{blue}{\rule{\paperwidth}{7.5cm}}% }}}% } \lipsum[1-4]\clearpage \end{document}

enter image description here

ORIGINAL SOLUTION (without stacks):

I draw the blue with a big \rule, and then overlay a white block for the future text, and an image, and finally a \parbox for the text.

\documentclass{memoir} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \thispagestyle{empty} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{everypage} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{lipsum} % THESE ARE LaTeX DEFAULTS; CAN CHANGE IF NEEDED. \def\PageTopMargin{1in} \def\PageLeftMargin{1in} \newcommand\atxy[3]{% \AddThispageHook{\smash{\hspace*{\dimexpr-\PageLeftMargin-\hoffset+#1\relax}% \raisebox{\dimexpr\PageTopMargin+\voffset-#2\relax}{#3}}}} \begin{document} \atxy{0in}{11in}{\textcolor{blue}{\rule{\paperwidth}{7.5cm}}} \atxy{\dimexpr\paperwidth-7cm}{\dimexpr11in-2cm}{\textcolor{white}{% \rule{5cm}{3.5cm}}} \atxy{2cm}{\dimexpr11in-2cm}{% \includegraphics[width=9cm,height=3.5cm]{example-image-a}} \atxy{\dimexpr\paperwidth-6.5cm}{\dimexpr11in-4.8cm}{\parbox[t]{4cm}{% This is a test of text in my parbox. Will it wrap properly? I think it will.}} \lipsum[1-4]\clearpage \end{document}

enter image description here

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Here is an option with tikz.

\documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay] \fill[blue] (current page.south west) rectangle ($(current page.south east)+(0,7)$); \fill[white] ($(current page.south west)+(2,2)$) rectangle ($(current page.south west)+(2,2)+(9,3)$); \fill[white] ($(current page.south east)+(-2,2)$) rectangle ($(current page.south east)+(-2,2)+(-7,3)$); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}

If you want to add some text, you can use \node[text width = 9cm, text height = 2.5cm, align = left] at ($(current page.south west)+(6.5,4.5)$) {text goes here}; or something like that.

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