I would like to have a float figure on a page of its own. The page should not be numbered and should not add to the page-count (e.g, the page before the figure should be m and the page after the figure should be n+1).
I tried this:
\begin{figure}
...
\thispagestyle{empty}
\addtocounter{page}{-1}
\end{figure}
The page is sufficiently large so it is indeed placed in its own page. However, the page before the figure is unnumbered and not counted, while the page of the figure itself is numbered.
I tried to start with:
\begin{figure}[p]
but got the same result.
I tried:
\clearpage
\begin{figure}
This worked, but then I had empty space in the page just before the figure.