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

[Matthew Leingang]

Dear Richard,

Read the manual for pdfpages (it's the pdfpages.pdf file in your tex  
distribution, or you can type "texdoc pdfpages" at a command line).   
There are options to move around or scale the included pdf.

--Matthew Leingang

On Feb 2, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Richard J Benish wrote:

> Many thanks for all the suggestions. After much fumbling I couldn't  
> get the archived file to cooperate for one reason or another. It is  
> more complicated than I need.
>
> Matthew's suggestion appears to be almost working.
>
> The remaining problem is that the figure is not even close to being  
> centered; it's scooted way over to the left so that almost half of  
> it is chopped off and the right side of it is slightly to the right  
> of center of the page. (Although I was not happy with where the  
> graphic was placed in any of my tries, previously it always came  
> somewhat close to being pleasingly centered.)
>
> Below is the code (which perhaps contains some needless things that  
> I've stuck in there for one reason or another).
>
> Thanks again for any help.
>
> Richard Benish
>
>
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
>
> \usepackage{geometry}
>
> \usepackage{graphicx}
>
> \usepackage{epstopdf}
>
> \usepackage{mathptmx}
> \usepackage{multicol}
>
> \usepackage{pdfpages}
>
> \geometry{landscape}
>
> \geometry{legalpaper,lmargin=.75in,rmargin=.75in,tmargin=. 
> 75in,bmargin=.75in}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \includepdf{SGM-Radial-Fall-Feb-2-08-2.pdf}
>
> \setlength{\columnsep}{25pt}
>
> \begin{multicols}{3}
>
> %Lots of text
>
> %\end{multicols}{2}
>
> %\end{document}
>
>
>
>
>
>> Dear Richard,
>>
>> I believe Paulo's suggested options were either/or.
>>
>> Are you trying to have a separate pdf file be the first page of  
>> the document?  Then this should work:
>>
>> \usepackage{pdfpages}
>> \begin{document}
>> \includepdf{titlepage} %<-- name of your pdf to be included
>> text text text text...
>>
>> See the documentation for the pdfpages package to find options for  
>> scaling and other stuff if it's too big.
>>
>> The figure environment is for graphics that "float" and are placed  
>> by LaTeX according to an algorithm that decides what looks best.   
>> If you don't want a float, don't use the figure environment (you  
>> see I didn't above).
>>
>> I can't quite tell from your original post, but in case you wanted  
>> a big graphic *and* some text on the title page, you can use  
>> something like:
>>
>> \documentclass[titlepage]{article}
>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>> \begin{document}
>> \begin{titlepage}
>> \begin{center}
>> \includegraphics[height=8in]{titlepage_graphic}
>> \\
>> title page text
>> \end{center}
>> \end{titlepage}
>> text text text text ...
>>
>> I don't think you *need* to use pdtk here.  If you want to find  
>> out more about it, open a terminal and type
>>
>> 	pdftk --help
>>
>> It often helps if you post a sample of your code so others can  
>> understand exactly what you've tried.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> --Matthew Leingang
>>
>>
>> On Feb 2, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Richard J Benish wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> The blank page appears even when the graphic is the first  
>>>>> command after "begin document."
>>>>>
>>>>> I assume this is because of the "documentclass," which is  
>>>>> "article."
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sugestions:
>>>>
>>>> Is the graphic bigger than the page?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Solutions:
>>>>
>>>> Create a pdf page with the graphic and:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Use the pdfpages package  inside the document.
>>>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/
>>>>
>>>> 2) Paste  the graphic on the end with pdftk
>>>> http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
>>>>
>>>> pdftk for 10.3 works well for 10.5 (and for 10.4 I presume)
>>>>
>>>> Greetings
>>>>
>>>> Paulo Ferreira
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Leingang
>> Preceptor in Mathematics
>> Harvard University
>>
>> http://www.math.harvard.edu/~leingang/vCard.vcf
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Matthew Leingang
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