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Roger
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Post by Roger »

Hi!

I'm writing a bachelor's thesis at the moment and having some problem with an image on the front page. Using documentclass srcbook, a4, twoside and looking for a simple way to get an image to fill the page width on the first page, any ideas? Also have text on the first page so need to change the margins only for the image. Have tried defining a new environment that I found in the forum here but can't get it to work or are there any easier way than changing margins?

This is the environment I've tested without any luck:

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\newenvironment{changemargin}{%
  %\vspace{-\parskip}%
  \begin{list}{}{%
      \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{0pt}%
      \setlength{\rightmargin}{0pt}%
      \setlength{\listparindent}{\parindent}%
      \setlength{\itemindent}{\parindent}%
      \setlength{\parsep}{\parskip}%
    }%
  \item[]}{\end{list}%
  %\vspace{-\parskip}
}

/Roger

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Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi Roger,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
You could use eso-pic for including a picture without changing the margins of the text. We had a discussion about using eso-pic here, that may be useful for you. If you have questions concerning that feel free to ask.

Stefan
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Roger
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Post by Roger »

Thank you! Used the textpos package and it was quite straight forward.

Great to have found a LaTeX-forum!

/Roger
CMath
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Post by CMath »

This was extremely helpful, thank you!
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