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Following up on the answer to proper tool for charts in tex I've built this picture to simulate/replace a scanned image from a newspaper:

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I've tried several ways to put the background newsprint image behind the whole figure (axis labels and titles) as well as the chart, with no success.

When that's done, I'd like to have ragged edges, as in @Ipsens's answer to Torn page effect

Here's my MWE (not absolutely minimal, but small enough). The newsprint image is http://www.theblockforum.com/fun/lance/lancescollection/textures/paper2.jpg

Edit: Drawing on an image with TikZ might be helpful, but I couldn't get the example there to compile.

\documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz,pgfplots} \usepackage{pgfplotstable} \usetikzlibrary{backgrounds} %deal with warning message in log \pgfplotsset{compat=1.8} \newcommand{\mywidth}{10cm} \newcommand{\myheight}{7cm} %https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35872/multiline-coords \pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{ name, footprint Google search, 0.2 Movie download, 20 Daily newspaper, 170 }\carbonfootprints \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\sffamily] \begin{pgfonlayer}{background} \includegraphics{newsprint} \end{pgfonlayer} \begin{axis}[ xbar, xmin=0, tick style={draw=none}, width=\mywidth, height=\myheight, enlarge y limits=0.5, xlabel={Estimated carbon footprint, g CO${}_2$}, ytick=data, yticklabel style={align=right}, yticklabels={ Google\\ search, Movie\\ download, Daily\\ newspaper, }, nodes near coords, nodes near coords align={horizontal}, ] \addplot [fill=red] table [x=footprint, y expr=\coordindex] {\carbonfootprints}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
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The idea is to use the pencildraw style from Ipsenss answer to do a clipping before the axis environment; after the axis environment a \node is used to include the background image using a background layer:

\documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz,pgfplots} \usepackage{pgfplotstable} \usetikzlibrary{calc,decorations.pathmorphing} \pgfdeclarelayer{background} \pgfsetlayers{background,main} %deal with warning message in log \pgfplotsset{compat=1.8} \definecolor{paper}{RGB}{239,227,157} \newcommand{\mywidth}{10cm} \newcommand{\myheight}{7cm} %http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35872/multiline-coords \pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{ name, footprint Google search, 0.2 Movie download, 20 Daily newspaper, 170 }\carbonfootprints \tikzset{ pencildraw/.style={ % decorate, decoration={random steps,segment length=2pt,amplitude=1pt} } % } \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\sffamily] \path[clip,pencildraw] (-2.5,-40pt) rectangle (9,6); \begin{axis}[ xbar, xmin=0, tick style={draw=none}, width=\mywidth, height=\myheight, enlarge y limits=0.5, xlabel={Estimated carbon footprint, g CO${}_2$}, ytick=data, yticklabel style={align=right}, yticklabels={ Google\\ search, Movie\\ download, Daily\\ newspaper, }, nodes near coords, nodes near coords align={horizontal}, ] \addplot [fill=red] table [x=footprint, y expr=\coordindex] {\carbonfootprints}; \begin{pgfonlayer}{background} \node {\includegraphics{papiro}}; \end{pgfonlayer} \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}

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  • What I want from Ipsen's answer is the torn page effect, but with my newsprint image instead of paper color, and the background filling the whole picture, not just the plot itself. Note that in my picture the image does in fact extend a little to the right of the plot. Commented Jun 7, 2013 at 20:48
  • @EthanBolker please see my update answer; is it something like that what you want? Commented Jun 8, 2013 at 0:02
  • @GonzaloMedina \includegraphics{papiro} ?? :-) Commented Jun 8, 2013 at 0:28
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    @Papiro hehe! "Papiro" is the Spanish word for papyrus :-) Commented Jun 8, 2013 at 0:32

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