Insert two pdf pages at the bottom

Question

I would like to insert a pdf document of 2 pages in my document only on the bottom half part of the page. Using the pdfpages package with the command

\includepdf[nup=2x1,pages=-]{<mypdf>}

place the 2 pages side by side but half of my page is "lost". I would like to be able to use the upper half of my page as I want, and insert this 2 pages in the bottom half.

Here is an illustration of the result that I would like

Any help would be much appreciate.

Answer 1

You can place the pages using \includegraphics and specify the pages separately:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx,lipsum}

\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{.7}% Allow up to 70% of bottom-floats to be on a page
\begin{document}

\section{A section}
\lipsum[1-7]

\begin{figure}[b]
  \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth,page=1]{lipsum50}%
  \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth,page=2]{lipsum50}
\end{figure}

\lipsum[8-14]

\end{document}

We ensure each page fits exactly within the text width (setting their widths to be .5\linewidth). Depending on the page geometry, you may have to update \bottomfraction as well, allowing a certain portion of the page to be taken up by floats. See How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? and/or How can I get the figures not to be pushed to the end of the document?

lipsum50.pdf is a document that just has \lipsum[1-50] in it.

Answer 2

This solution embeds two minipages into a floating picture-environment.
Instead of defining the width of the included pictures (i.e. pdf) this solution use the "updated" linewidth of the minipages. You can refer to Werner's approach for lighter solution.

(Note that \fbox are here just for making pages boundaries more obvious. You can/should of course remove it in your final document.)

\documentclass{scrartcl}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{array}
    \usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
    \lipsum
    \begin{figure}[!b]
        \begin{minipage}[c]{.5\linewidth}
            \fbox{\includegraphics[page=1, width=\linewidth]{pdf-to-be-included.pdf}}
        \end{minipage}
        \hfill
        \begin{minipage}[c]{.5\linewidth}
            \fbox{\includegraphics[page=2, width=\linewidth]{pdf-to-be-included.pdf}}
        \end{minipage}
    \end{figure}
    \lipsum
\end{document}