[OS X TeX] Full page image as cover

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.12.2007 um 20:27 schrieb Manuel:

> For my second, I need to have an image occupy the whole first page,  
> with no margins or text whatsoever, then a blank page, then the  
> page with the title, author, etc.


The following reserves an area for a picture (the dimensions are not  
that important) and positions its upper left corner obviously  
somewhere outside the page's writable text-area:

	\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}
	\begin{picture}(210,297)
	  \put(-7.5,-35){\includegraphics*[height=300mm]{picture}}
	\end{picture}

Sometimes you need to run ebb to create a BB file with the dimensions  
of the graphics file. A

	\thispagestyle{empty}

might be useful to get a clean and undisturbed picture.


The following (hopefully) ejects an empty page

	\cleardoublepage

If not, add some vertical space, for example

	\vspace*{97mm}


The following puts title, author, etc. on the page:

	\maketitle

You can also customise (with \renewcommand) \maketitle to insert a  
picture, eject an empty page, draw title, author, etc.

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Greetings

   Pete

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