Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> I know and I used a backgroundcolor and a background simultaneously
> in my posted example but what I want is a interface in localframed without
> the overlay solution, the background should also repeated horizontal and
> vertical and not streched in both directions.

\defineoverlay[image][\backgroundimage1\overlaywidth\overlayheight{\externalfigure[\framedparameter{backgroundimage}]}]

\framed[width=15cm,height=25cm,backgroundimage=cow.pdf,background=image]{test}