pdfpages doesn't center pdf on page, using Thesis.cls

Question

I am using the Thesis-template from http://www.latextemplates.com/template/masters-doctoral-thesis.

I have several LaTeX-documents to include in the Appendix. The best solution seems to be compiling each document and using pdfpages to include them. I tried combine, but there were too many conflicts.

The problem is that, although default pdfpages-behaviour should be to center the pdf on the page, it places it in the top-left corner.

Trying to offset it displaces the pages unevenly, as I am using twosided page layout.

I assume this is due to a conflict with the Thesis.cls, that it somehow removes any margins and applies it manually for only its own elements.

Any idea how I could either:

• Use the offset to place the document appropriately
• Introduce margins for just the pages with the PDF.

Usage:

\includepdfset{pages=-,pagecommand=\thispagestyle{fancy}}

\includepdf[fitpaper=true]{./../Forstudierapport/forstudierapport.pdf}

Result:

As you can see, the header is properly placed, but the PDF is displaced.

Notes:

\usepackage{geometry} removes margins from the entire document.

Env: Using BasicTeX 2011 from MacTeX. I'm on Mac OS X.7.

Answer 1

The main problem is that Thesis.cls uses vmargin to set the page parameters. This package is incompatible with pdfpages, unfortunately; actually it's incompatible with atbegshi which is called by eso-pic.

I know because I found the same issue when some user had similar problems with my frontespizio package that uses atbegshi.

You should try and persuade the authors to use geometry: it's not a big deal to change the few relevant lines in Thesis.cls.

The same setting can be obtained with geometry with

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{includehead,includefoot,
  left=1.5in,right=1.0in,
  top=0.6in,bottom=0.8in,
  headheight=20pt,headsep=0.25in,
  footskip=0.3in}