title of (sub)section on included multi-page pdf

Question

This is a follow-up on another thread in which I got advise on how to \includepdf with section and subsection titles on the included pdf: \includepdf jumps to new page - can I avoid that?

The proposed \resizebox + \includegraphics solution does seem to solve the with single-page pdfs. However, with the solution in the above thread, my multi-page pdf is treated as a single-paged, i.e. only the first page is included. As is also suggested, the rest of the pages in the multi-page def-file can afterwards be included by \includepdf[pages={2- }.

Combining these two commands are not very convenient but could be feasible, except the first page is scaled and positioned different from the rest of the pages.

For me, it is quite complex to make a MWE in this case and hence I will (at least for now) just present the code and a snapshot of the output file.

\begin{center} %centre on page
    \resizebox{1.0 \textwidth}{!}{ %resize inserted page
        \includegraphics{appendix/Initial-presentation-of-the-project.pdf}
    } %close resizebox    
\end{center}

\includepdf[pages={2- }, scale=0.755,pagecommand={\thispagestyle{plain}}] {appendix/Initial-presentation-of-the-project.pdf}

Please note the different scale values in the code snippet and the different positionss of the boarders on page 35 and 36 in the left side of the output file. The following pages are similar to page 36.

After using the latest suggestion by @Tom Kelly, the size issue is solved. The issue with position is not used but has minimised:

Answer 1

\includepdf has a width argument. Use this instead of scale to give the exact width:

\pagebreak

\section*{Appendix of Introduction}

\subsection*{Appendix a: Initial presentation of the project}

\newline
\begin{center} %centre on page
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{ %resize inserted page
\includegraphics[page = 1]{{"appendix/Initial-presentation-of-the-project.pdf"}}
} %close resizebox    
\end{center}

\includepdf[pages = {2- }, width = \textwidth, pagecommand = {\thispagestyle{plain}}] {appendix/Initial-presentation-of-the-project.pdf}

Answer 2

I wrote a package called pdfoverlay which allows you to overlay text on to an existing PDF. With slight modification to the macro that positions the PDF on to the page, you could make it place each PDF at the bottom of the page text and scaled to \textwidth.

You could use the adjustbox to frame each page easily.

It's possible to put each PDF page anywhere at any size on the page.

Something like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
% use adjustbox to frame each page
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{pdfoverlay}
% Options for include graphics to scale to text width and frame each page
\pdfoverlaySetGraphicsOptions{keepaspectratio, width=\textwidth, frame}
% slightly redefine \__pdfoverlay_format_pdf_page: so that pdf page is placed
% at the bottom of the page text, rather than at the centre of the page
\ExplSyntaxOn
\cs_set:Nn \__pdfoverlay_format_pdf_page:
  {
    \AtTextUpperLeft
      {
        \put(0,\LenToUnit{-\textheight})
          {
            \use:x
              {
                \exp_not:N \includegraphics
                  [ \clist_use:Nn \g__pdfoverlay_graphics_options_clist { , } ]
                  { \g__pdfoverlay_pdf_file_name_str }
              }
          }
      }
  }
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\clearpage
\section*{Appendixes}
\subsection*{Appendix A}
\pdfoverlaySetPDF{first.pdf}
\pdfoverlayIncludeToLastPage
\null\clearpage
\subsection*{Appendix B}
\pdfoverlaySetPDF{second.pdf}
\pdfoverlayIncludeToLastPage
\null\clearpage
\subsection*{Appendix C}
\pdfoverlaySetPDF{third.pdf}
\pdfoverlayIncludeToLastPage
\end{document}

Answer 3

IMO the \resizebox+ \includegraphics combination is a heavy hack that doesn't take advantage of the pdfpages package which was considered as an option. The cropping and size control of this package can be used for a simpler code, if one use the powerfull pagecommand option.

Here is a MWE which produces a regular appendix, and the a second one the content of which is a portion of the pdf doc of the pdfpackage itself. I assume that the first page you want to include gas a usefull height significantly smaller that the regular page, as the chapter header takes some place

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\pagestyle{headings}
\begin{document}
\appendix
\chapter{My first appendix}
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\includepdf[width=\paperwidth,pages={1},trim={0in 1.5in 0in 5in},clip,
pagecommand={\chapter{My second appendix}},offset={0mm -2in}]{pdfpages.pdf}

\includepdf[width=\paperwidth,pages={2-4},trim={0in 0in 0in 0in},clip,
pagecommand={},offset={0mm -0.5in}]{pdfpages.pdf}

\end{document}

In this code, one include a selected part of the first page (defined by the two non vanishing trim parameters. The offset is used to vertically position the portion to iake in two account the headein height and the footer height in the master document (rule of thumb : bottom trim value minus height of the bottom margin).

For the other pages, page command must be kept empty to ensute taht the running headers will be typeset, and the offset is still used to acomodate the different layout of the two documents. Result looks like (width the frame option added in \includepdf to visualize the offsets) :

With this strategy, there is no need to do anything to keep the initial text fully unscaled. Obviously, your would have to adjust the trim and offset paramters if you want to cut out the page numbers of the source PDF.