Put a figure in a page of its own, without counting this page

Question

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.

Answer 1

The problem is actually twofolded:

1. To prevent the page counter from increasing, one can use the afterpage package in front if the figure.

2. For controlling the pagestyle of the float page the package floatpag provides the \thisfloatpagestyle{empty} command.

The \renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.1} is just for this example to ensure that the figure is placed in its own page. Same for the lipsum to generate text.

---

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage{floatpag}
\usepackage{afterpage}

\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.1}


\begin{document}

    \lipsum \lipsum

    \afterpage{\addtocounter{page}{-1}}
    \begin{figure}[p!]
        \thisfloatpagestyle{empty}
        \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image}
    \end{figure}

     \lipsum

\end{document}

Answer 2

Something like this?

A \clearpage after the float page is necessary, in my point of view, as well as a \newpage\thispagestyle{empty} before the figure environment.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\blindtext[50]


\clearpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{ente}
\addtocounter{page}{-1}
\end{figure}
\clearpage

\blindtext[50]

\end{document}

Answer 3

Here is another suggestion using package afterpage:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage{afterpage}
%\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}
\lipsum \lipsum
\afterpage{
  \centering
  \addtocounter{page}{-1}
  \thispagestyle{empty}
  \parbox[c][\textheight][c]{\textwidth}{
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image}
    %\captionof{figure}{xxx}
  }
}
\lipsum
\end{document}

You can load caption and use \captionof{figure}{...} if a caption is needed for this nonfloating picture.