Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Figure is not centered on a different-sized page

[guvenarkilic]

Dear All,

In my report, I have to change the size of a page to a3 instead of a4. I make it with the following code:

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\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{11.7in}
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{16.5in}

However, although I center the figure on this page, the figure is not centered. It is centered according to the a4 page, but not to the a3 page (the place of the footer is also wrong).

I hope there is a trick to fix this issue.

Thanks in advance.

[kaiserkarl13]

The \pdfpagewidth and \pdfpageheight macros only set the width for the PDF page, not the widths of the text and what LaTeX actually thinks the page size is. The following example might help you get what you want:

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\documentclass{article}

% Set page sizes
\setlength{\paperwidth}{297truemm}
\setlength{\paperheight}{420truemm}
\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{\paperwidth}
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{\paperheight}
% Set rest of lengths to compensate for new page size
\setlength{\textwidth}{1.609\textwidth}
\setlength{\textheight}{1.609\textheight}
\setlength{\marginparsep}{1.609\marginparsep}
\setlength{\headheight}{1.609\headheight}
%etc., etc.

\usepackage{layout}   % Used only to define the \layout macro below

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\rule{5cm}{5cm}
\end{center}
\newpage
\layout   % This should help you decide which lengths to change above.
\end{document}

[guvenarkilic]

Dear kaiserkarl13,

First of all, thank you for your response. Your solution works well if I change all the pages to a3.

However, I need to change the dimension of only one page to a3, the remaining ones should be a4.

In this case, with your solution, I still have the same problem.

[kaiserkarl13]

I think this will do what you want:

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%% a3-in-a4.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{pdfpages}

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\rule{5cm}{5cm}
\end{center}

\includepdf[fitpaper]{a3page}

\newpage
\begin{center}
\rule{5cm}{5cm}
\end{center}

\end{document}

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%% a3page.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a3paper]{geometry}
\setcounter{page}{2}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\rule{5cm}{5cm}
\end{center}
\end{document}

[guvenarkilic]

This worked well. Thanks.