Page Layout ⇒ how to embed a coverpage before the titlepage

[dennis1982]

My thesis must be accompanied by a coverpage besides the titlepage. I know that I have the use commands \ begin (title page) and \ end (title) to create a title page. But how can I embed a coverpage before the titlepage in a clean Latex way? I want to add a fullpage image to the coverpage. The used documentclass is report.

[localghost]

I didn't test it, but it should be possible to include a title in PDF format before the actual title page by means of the pdfpages package.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \includepdf{<filename>}   % Single page PDF document as title
  \begin{titlepage}
  % Title page content
  \end{titlepage}

  \blinddocument
\end{document}

Note that this needs compilation with pdflatex.


Thorsten

[dennis1982]

I will give it a try when I'm back at home. What is the function of \usepackage{blindtext} in the example?

[localghost]

[...] What is the function of \usepackage{blindtext} in the example?

Oh, I thought this would be self-explanatory (at the latest when looking at the manual). The blindtext package is for producing longer passages of text or even whole documents without great effort.