In a book I want to create a double-page photo spread, so when you open the book, the left half of the photo is on the left, and the right half is on the right. I want it to be as big as possible, so would like to eliminate both left/right margins, and the header and footer.
I tried the geometry package to eliminate margins, header, footer, but this inserted a \clearpage
which added a blank page impossible to suppress. I want no blank pages on either side of the spread.
I decided instead I'll just eliminate the left and right margins, and leave the header and footer for now.
I tried \addtolength
for the margins, but this does not work with the figure environment. The left hand margin default is still present to the left of each photo.
If I eliminate the figure environment, then the margins are eliminated, but the page does not break between left and right, and the right half of the photo prints over the left half. If I force a page break with \clearpage
, then the page breaks but a much wider margin of around 4 cm is created to the left of each photo.
Minimum working example below.
How can I print the photo all the way to the left and right edges of both pages?
Edit: All photos will start at the top of the page. Unique trim: each photo needs to be cropped, and the aspect ratio is unique to each photo and different from the page. I'd like to do the cropping within LaTeX so that it is recorded and easily changeable, in case editors prefer a different crop, and I'm assuming trim can be used to crop the photo so that the aspect ratio fits that of the page. I'm flexible on captions, probably would prefer them at the bottom of either the preceding or following page so that the photo is as large as possible without any white space.
More on captions: if a photo's dimensions are such that the best crop results in white space at the bottom, then preferably the caption should be in the white space at the bottom, either on the left page or right page, but not both. Probably the right page would be preferable.
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\newpage
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-1in}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-1in}
\begin{figure}
\rule{1in}{1in}
\end{figure}
\clearpage
\begin{figure}
\rule{1in}{1in}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
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