[texhax] change margins for some pages in a doc

[arnaud gaboury]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 12/10/12||11:12, Viktor Ahlqvist wrote:
> >    The package "geometry" solves your problem.
> >
> >    In the preamble:
> >
> >    \usepackage[left=3cm,right=3cm,a4paper]{geometry} (change the values
> to
> >    the correct margins, see the documentation for more options).
> >
> >    In the document, you can use \newgeometry{left=1cm,right=1cm,top=1cm}
> >    to change the left,right and top margins to one cm.
> >
> >    Simply use the command \restoregeometry when you want to go back to
> the
> >    orginal margins.
> >
> >    /Viktor
> >    On Friday, 12 October 2012, Arno Gaboury wrote:
> >
> >      Dear list,
> >      My document class is \documentclass[english,12pt]{scrartcl}
> >      I need to add on a few pages large .xls tables and wish them to fill
> >      more space, e.g dismish top,bottom,let and right margins. This
> >      should
> >      only be applicaple to some pages, not the whole doc.
> >      Best would be to have access to 1 and 2 in the usual page layout
> >      graphic.
> >      1 one inch +\offset (left space)
> >      2 one inch +\voffset (top space)
> >      but I have no idea how to change these values.
> >      Playing with scale \includegraphics[scale=1]{xl1.pdf} is not
> >      satisfying.
> >      \pagebreak \enlargethispage does nothing
> >      \renewcommand{textwidth}{npt} does nothing
> >      I do not understand very well the fancyhdr package. Maybe it is the
> >      solution?
> >      Thank you for help
>
> Using : \newgeometry{left=0pt,top=0pt,bottom=0pt,includehead} is not too
> bad, but not perfect.
>
> Please find attached a short view of my document + the .xls file to
> include.
> As you will see,
> 1- the header is distorted on page 3
> 2- the .xls feet width but not height. Must be a ratio issue
> 3- page 3 is not numbered.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> \newgeometry{left=0pt,top=0cm,bottom=5mm,includehead,includefoot}
>
is best, as I can see number page. But still strugling to have a bigger
height for the .xls table.

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