[OS X TeX] Full Page Graphic on First Page?

[Richard J Benish]

Thank you. Unfortunately, I'm still lost.

I've downloaded and installed the pdftk application, but I can't find 
it or figure out how to turn it on. Sorry for my ignorance.

Meanwhile, I've experimented with using the "memoir" document class 
and it gets rid of the first blank page and the mysterious numbers -- 
which was really all I wanted to solve.

But now the figure (which is a pdf of about the same size as a page) 
appears at the end of the document even though the command to insert 
it is immediately after "begin document." I've tried the exclamation 
point after the h (h!) and it still wants to put all the text before 
the figure. Funny how the simplest things can sometimes be so 
difficult!

Any help would be much appreciated.

Richard Benish



>On 2008/02/02, at 16:09, Richard J Benish wrote:
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>>I'm trying to create a "custom" document (not an article, book, or 
>>thesis, etc.) whose first page would contain a large graphic. Then 
>>a lot of text after that.
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>>I've found a template that works for most purposes, but it has a 
>>blank first page and mysterious consecutive numbers (not the same 
>>as page number) below the text on each page.
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>>The blank page appears even when the graphic is the first command 
>>after "begin document."
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>>I assume this is because of the "documentclass," which is "article."
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>>Is there a more appropriate document class or template or 
>>customized settings I should use to get rid of the first page and 
>>the mysterious numbers?
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Richard Benish
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>Sugestions:
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>Is the graphic bigger than the page?
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>Solutions:
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>Create a pdf page with the graphic and:
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>1) Use the pdfpages package  inside the document.
>http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/
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>2) Paste  the graphic on the end with pdftk
>http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
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>pdftk for 10.3 works well for 10.5 (and for 10.4 I presume)
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>Greetings
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>Paulo Ferreira
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