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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 8-4-20 on page I-624 in "Adding overlays, watermarks, and other backgrounds".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{123.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[skins]{tcolorbox}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{tcolorbox}[enhanced,title=Text as a watermark,
watermark text=\textbf{Example},
watermark color=blue,watermark opacity=0.1,
watermark stretch=0.95]
This shows a box with the text in the background.
Make it light so that main text remains readable!
\end{tcolorbox}
\end{document}