Cfrgtkky

I made a Tikz image that i would like to use as a icon of sorts in my document but as i have tried to displace it to the upper left corner of the document I inicially find that aparently the bounding box of the image is to big for it to move to the left, and then after some experiments with clipping the tikzimage I find that whenever I try to displace the image to begin to the left of where text usually begins, the image becomes cropped at the beginning and is only draw after the line that marks where text usually begins in the page.

That is somewhat strange for in the beginning my image was too much to the left and actually got draw to the rightmost point in the page, so if it where some type of limiting box in the page wouldn't it also crop the image at the right side too ?

is there a way to overcome tis problem ?

As pointed, I should give more specific information, so there it is the code i am using:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{hobby}



begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}[y=28pt, x=28pt,scale =0.5,yscale=-1.1, xscale=1.2]

draw[help lines,step=8pt] (-6,-1) grid (18,11);

 clip (-6,-1) rectangle (30,12);

 path[fill=black ,xshift = -12cm, rotate=-12] (1.93,2.85) to [curve  

 through ={(4.09,2.77)..

 (3.16,0.15)..(0.45,1.68)..(2.37,6.57)..(8.41,7.82)..(12.30,8.08)}]

 (13.36,8.6) .. controls (14.45,8) and (15.50,7.8) .. (19.08,7.96) to

 [curve  through ={(23.36,8.97)..(25.39,10.67)}] (25.22,12.77) 

 .. controls (24.22,9.9) and (21.65,10.45)..(21.09,12.27) to [curve

 through ={(23.46,15.72)..(27.28,12.86)..(25.40,8.13)..(21.72,6.40)..

 (16.44,5.93)..(15.3,5.79)}] (14.49,5.31) .. controls (14.18,5.5) and 

 (14,5.67)..(13.3,5.82) to [curve  through ={(12.4,5.92)..(8.55,5.89)..

 (5.9,5.75)..(2.01,4.06)}] (1.93,2.85) ;





end{tikzpicture}





end{document}

And here is a image of what i mean:

Shift the picture with xshift and yshift to the corner:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{hobby}



begin{document}



begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay,y=28pt, x=28pt,scale =0.5,yscale=-1.1, xscale=1.2,xshift=-2.7cm,yshift=-7.8cm]

draw[help lines,step=8pt] (-6,-1) grid (18,11);

 clip (-6,-1) rectangle (30,12);

 path[fill=black ,xshift = -12cm, rotate=-12] (1.93,2.85) to [curve  

 through ={(4.09,2.77)..

 (3.16,0.15)..(0.45,1.68)..(2.37,6.57)..(8.41,7.82)..(12.30,8.08)}]

 (13.36,8.6) .. controls (14.45,8) and (15.50,7.8) .. (19.08,7.96) to

 [curve  through ={(23.36,8.97)..(25.39,10.67)}] (25.22,12.77) 

 .. controls (24.22,9.9) and (21.65,10.45)..(21.09,12.27) to [curve

 through ={(23.46,15.72)..(27.28,12.86)..(25.40,8.13)..(21.72,6.40)..

 (16.44,5.93)..(15.3,5.79)}] (14.49,5.31) .. controls (14.18,5.5) and 

 (14,5.67)..(13.3,5.82) to [curve  through ={(12.4,5.92)..(8.55,5.89)..

 (5.9,5.75)..(2.01,4.06)}] (1.93,2.85) ;

end{tikzpicture}





end{document}

let me convert my comment to answer:

• 
  

  for image positioning use tikzpicture options remember picture,overlay, i.e.

  
  
  

  node (s)   [draw=gray!50,
  
               preaction={pattern=grid},
  
               minimum width=30cm, minimum height=20cm,
  
               below right] at (current page.north west) {};  % <---
  
  

  
  



• for determining image size use (only) scale=..., transform shape



• for grid use node with style patern=grid
  


• 
  

  redraw image by use of the relative coordinates. by this is enabled positioning drawn image without any tweak with xshift, yshift

  
  
  

  documentclass{article}
  
  usepackage{tikz}
  
  usetikzlibrary{hobby,patterns}
  
  newcommandcoo[1]{coordinate (#1)}             % <---
  
  
  
  begin{document}
  
  begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay,
  
                      scale=0.2, transform shape, % <--- determine size
  
                      pattern color=gray!50,
  
                      thin]
  
  node (s)   [draw=gray!50,
  
               preaction={pattern=grid},
  
               minimum width=30cm, minimum height=20cm,
  
               below right] at (current page.north west) {};
  
  path (s.west)  % coordinates of image
  
      -| ++ ( 3.2,-4.8) coo{a1} -| ++ ( 2.1,-0.1) coo{a2} |- ++ (-0.9,-2.6) coo{a3}
  
      -| ++ (-2.7, 1.5) coo{a4} |- ++ ( 1.9, 4.9) coo{a5} |- ++ ( 6.0, 1.2)coo{a6}
  
      -| ++ ( 3.9, 0.3) coo{a7} |- ++ ( 1.1, 0.5) coo{a8}
  
  %
  
      |- ++ ( 1.1,-0.5) coo{a9}  -| ++ ( 1.5,-0.2) coo{a10} -| ++ ( 3.2, 0.1) coo{a11}
  
      -| ++ ( 4.2, 1.0) coo{a12} -| ++ ( 2.0, 1.5) coo{a13} -| ++ (-0.2, 2.3) coo{a14}
  
  %
  
      -| ++ (-0.8,-1.4) coo{a15} -- ++ (-2.8, 0.0) coo{a16} -- ++ ( 0.0, 3.0) coo{a17}
  
      |- ++ ( 1.9, 1.4) coo{a18} -| ++ ( 3.8,-2.9) coo{a19} |- ++ (-1.9,-4.7) coo{a20}
  
      |- ++ (-3.7,-1.7) coo{a21} |- ++ (-5.2,-0.5) coo{a22} |- ++ (-1.2,-0.2) coo{a23}
  
      |- ++ (-0.8,-0.4) coo{a24}
  
  %
  
      |- ++ (-1.1, 0.5) coo{a25} |- ++ (-1.2, 0.1) coo{a26} -- ++ (-3.3,-0.0) coo{a27}
  
      |- ++ (-5.4,-0.6) coo{a28} |- ++ (-1.5,-1.2) coo{a29};
  
  fill[red]
  
      (a1)  to [curve through={(a2) ..(a3) ..(a4) ..(a5) ..(a6)..(a7)}] (a8) --
  
      (a8)  to [curve through={(a9) ..(a10)..(a11)..(a12)..(a13)}] (a14) --
  
      (a14) to [curve through={(a15)..(a16)..(a17)..(a18)..(a19)..
  
                               (a20)..(a21)..(a22)..(a23)}] (a24) --
  
      (a24) to [curve through={(a25)..(a26)..(a27)..(a28)..(a29)}] cycle ;
  
  end{tikzpicture}
  
  end{document}
  
  

  
  

with scale=0.2

with scale=0.1