LyX ⇒ Insert Large Picture that exceeds Margins

[harper]

Hey there,

i'm writing with the report class "scrreprt" (KOMA Script). Now, i want to insert a picture that is really large, and i want it to be printed larger than the margins of the text are. I currently have a margin of 3 cm on both sides for the text and that is a bit small.

Is it possible to format the picture with a special "page" with unique settings to fit better?

Also i have the problem that the description does not fit on the page and is simply left out.

I hope you can help me on this,
Harper

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Harper,

you could fake the width using makebox, such as here: Centering wide tables or figures.

Such as:

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\begin{figure}
  \noindent\makebox[\textwidth]{%
  \includegraphics[width=1.4\textwidth]{mypic}}
  \caption{...}
\end{figure}

Stefan

[harper]

Hm, that does not seem to work, with your code it tells me *** (job aborted, no legal \end found)

I tried to use the code after the link, but it didnt work either..

Anyway, this would fix the problem with the width, but not with the heigth, am I right?

What I may have forgotten: The Image is in A4 format.. I don't need it to fill the whole page, but a bit lager than the margins are would be nice..