[texhax] inserting a page of different dimensions

[William Adams]

On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:36 AM, martin f krafft wrote:

> is it possible to tell LaTeX (tetex here) to create a page of
> different dimensions than the rest of the document? I want something
> like:
>
>   \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>   [...]
>   \begin{document}
>   page 1, which is A4 \newpage
>   \begin{a5page}
>     page 2, which will be A5 in the DVI/PS file.
>   \end{a5page}
>   page 3, now A4 again
>   \end{document}
>
> Thanks for any input.

This can be done XeTeX --- just insert a \special as the first  
element of a page w/ the new page size. e.g., the following works in  
XeLaTeX:

\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
page 1 is letter or A4.
\clearpage
\special{papersize=5.5in,8.5in}
Page 2 is half-letter
\clearpage
\special{papersize=8.5in,11in}
Page 3 is letter-sized.
\end{document}

That won't work w/ pdflatex, though. If you have to use that, I  
believe the best work-around would either be to trim the page (if  
smaller) manually afterwards, or to re-process several sets of  
pdflatex runs (one for each page size) merging pages using the LaTeX  
package pdfpages.

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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