Re: including pdf and using the entire page

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Johan Sandblom wrote:

> In my document I want to include a few published pdf files. I have
> accomplished this with
>
> \chapter{File 1}
> \copypages[file1.pdf][scale=800] % 20 pages
> \chapter{File 2}
> \copypages[file1.pdf][scale=650] % 16 pages
>
> However, the included pages obey the layout of the rest of the
> document, and even if the paper in my document could allow a larger
> scale, I cannot use it since some part of the included file falls off
> the page.

Try without any value for scale, that is just \copypages[file1.pdf].


> Is it possible to include pdf files and allow each page to use the
> entire page (possibly with room left for a page number)?

See below.

> I have tried several versions including using makeup (but that is only
> one page?), pagefigure (also only one page at a time).

Basically you need to find out the number of pages of the file and 
then recursively include them one by one.

Recently, I wanted to print a collection of papers as a single pdf, 
with its own table of contents etc. The trouble was that some of the 
papers were printed on A4 paper and some were on letter paper. So, I 
modified the copypages macro to suit my needs. There is very little 
configuration options for the macro, it behaves the way I wanted it 
to. Maybe, you can modify it to your needs.

\unprotect

%D Usage \copyfullpages[filename.pdf]

\def\copyfullpages
   {\dodoubleempty\docopyfullpages}

\def\docopyfullpages[#1][#2]%
   {\bgroup
    \getfiguredimensions[#1]%
    \getparameters[\??ip]
      [\c!n=\noffigurepages,
       \c!marking=\v!off,
       \c!scale=\!!thousand,
       \c!offset=\!!zeropoint,
       #2]%
    \dorecurse\@@ipn

{\startTEXpage[\c!width=\paperwidth,\c!height=\paperheight,\c!offset=\@@ipoffset]
        \externalfigure
         [#1]

[\c!page=\recurselevel,\c!width=\paperwidth,\c!height=\paperheight,\c!factor=\v!max,#2]
         \stopTEXpage
        \incrementnumber[page]}
    \egroup}

\protect

For page numbers, I had a separate layer, which printed on top of the 
included pdfs (some pdfs were scanned images). I can send you my 
module if you want.

Aditya