I produce exams in A3 format and, when the exam is too long, I want to produce a supplementary page, in A4 format. I use the \newgeometry
command of the geometry package, and it's known that this package refuses to pass from A3 to A4 in the same document. So how I can do my purpose ?
I give a simple MWE where I use a boarded minipage
to watch up the behaviour when I use \newgeometry
.
\documentclass[12pt]{exam}
\usepackage[figuresleft]{rotating}
\usepackage{multicol}
\setlength{\columnsep}{40pt}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{3pt}
\usepackage[a3paper,landscape,margin=2cm,twocolumn]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{minipage}{1pt}
\rule{1pt}{4cm}
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}{15cm}
A first question
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}{1pt}
\rule{1pt}{4cm}
\end{minipage}
\newpage
\begin{minipage}{1pt}
\rule{1pt}{4cm}
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}{15cm}
A second question
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}{1pt}
\rule{1pt}{4cm}
\end{minipage}
\newpage
\newgeometry{a4paper,total={180mm,255mm},includefoot,includehead,centering,twoside,top=10pt}
\begin{minipage}{1pt}
\rule{1pt}{4cm}
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}{15cm}
A third question
\end{minipage}
%
\begin{minipage}{1pt}
\rule{1pt}{4cm}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}
and it's compilation
One can see the effect on the second page, where the document is clearly in A4 document, but with A3 geometry.
One solution can be to rotate the last page, and playing on dimensions such width
, height
, top
etc to obtain a good rotated centered page, and print it on A4 printer... (Note that that's what I do for A3 pages.. I print it on my A4 printer, and copy it outside "from A4 to A3"..