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I am trying to make a full page table using tabularx. As far as I can understand, the second parameter specifies the entire size and the "X" columns self-stretch to fill it up. What I run into is a table that is split at the end of the page and I cannot seem to make it shift to the right. What am I doing wrong here? I should also mentioned I've tried experimeting with textheight and textwidth but could not figure out how to force the width.

Example code below:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
  \begin{landscape}

   \begin{tabularx}{290mm}{|c|c|c|X|}
   \hline
   Lorem & Lorem & Lorem & \lipsum[1] \\
   \hline
   \end{tabularx}

  \end{landscape}
\end{document}
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you have some issues, first off the 290mm should really be \linewidth or \textwidth. Second, you should put a \noindent in front of the tabular. And finally, not so much of an issue, remove the page number.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
  \begin{landscape}
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \noindent
    \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|c|c|c|X|}
      \hline
      Lorem & Lorem & Lorem & \lipsum[1] \\
      \hline
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{landscape}
\end{document}

To address the comment, it's not how I read it, but if that is in fact the case, the following can be used (Adjusted after egreg's comment):

\centering\makebox[0pt][c]{%
  \hskip-\footskip
  \begin{tabularx}{\paperheight}{|c|c|c|X|}
    \hline
    Lorem & Lorem & Lorem & \lipsum[1] \\
    \hline
  \end{tabularx}%
  \hskip\headheight
}
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  • I think the original question specifically says that \linewidth is not an option as it keeps the table within the margins. I think the question is to get the table from edge to edge of the page ignoring margins.
    – ArTourter
    Mar 22, 2012 at 15:17
  • @ArTourter: That's not how I read it, but I added an alternative for that case.
    – Roelof Spijker
    Mar 22, 2012 at 15:32
  • I'd prefer \centering\makebox[0pt][c]{...} instead of the foreign command \centerline.
    – egreg
    Mar 22, 2012 at 17:42
  • @egreg: Not that I disagree, but do you have any specific reason for that preference?
    – Roelof Spijker
    Mar 23, 2012 at 17:09
  • 2
    @RoelofSpijker It's an unsupported command and behaves in a way that users might find surprising (for example it doesn't force horizontal mode).
    – egreg
    Mar 23, 2012 at 17:12
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You have a paragraph indent to the left of the table and the specified width is considerably more than the horizontal size, because of the margins. try

  \noindent\begin{tabularx}{\hsize}{|c|c|c|X|}
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  • Thank you - very helpful but part of the solution.
    – Spiros
    Mar 23, 2012 at 13:40

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