General ⇒ How to "float" \includepdfs ?

[ddenton]

I want to insert a singe 11 X 17 in sheet with graphics in an 8.5 X 11 in report. I have been using the wonderful package, pdfpages, to do this. However, now I would like to insert this page as a float, so that I can insert it in running text rather than at the end of a chapter or within an appendix. I have tried putting the \includepdf command within the \figure environment, but (of course) that does not seem to work.

Is there any way you know of to make an \includepdf page "float"?

Thanks very much for your help!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi ddenton,

inside floats you can use \includegraphics, pdf format is supported too.

Stefan

[ddenton]

Thanks Stephan.

I understand that \includegraphics allows pdfs and use this ability all the time--my problem is how do I insert an "oversized" page (11 X 17 in) in a lettersize report.

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You can resize that pdf page by parameters to \includegraphics: scale, width, height, see graphicx documentation.

Stefan

[ddenton]

Using height and width, I am able to "include" 11 X 17 in pdfs, but not to put them on a 11 X 17 in page within my PDF document created by LaTeX.

The question is how to get \includegraphics to create the single oversized page.

Any further ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Juanjo]

Using the afterpage package you can manage to float the oversized sheet to the "next" page (in some way, something similar to \begin{figure}[!p]... \end{figure}). Load this package. Then, in a point before that where the sheet should appear, write:

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\afterpage{\includepdf[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{foo.pdf}}

or something similar, with the appropriate options of \includepdf.

[ddenton]

Hello Juanjo,

Thanks (again) for your help. This is exactly what I needed.

DD