Number of pages in Leaflet

Question

I'm creating a leaflet and I use the leaflet package. I want to insert an image that fills 2 pages. Is there any option to set 3 separate pages for the front side of the paper and 2 (1 small, 1 double sized) pages for the back? I read through the documentation but I seem to have missed the part where the number of pages is set up. I read that up to 6 are possible. So I guess that fewer pages is also an option.

I want the front side to look like this

enter image description here

and the back side like this

enter image description here

Code:

\documentclass{leaflet}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{blindtext} 
\usepackage{biolinum} 
\renewcommand\rmdefault{\sfdefault}% Verwende serifenlose Schrift 
\usepackage{mwe}% Dummy Bilder 
\usepackage{xcolor} 
\AddToBackground{1}{\put(0,0){\textcolor{blue!20}{\rule{\paperwidth}{\paperheight}}}}%     Farbiger Hintergrund für 1. Seite 
\begin{document} 
\title{Veranstalung} 
\author{Veranstalter} 
\date{Veranstaltungstag} 
\maketitle 
\thispagestyle{empty}% Keine Seitenzahlen 
\clearpage 
\section{Willkommen} 
\blindtext 
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
 \clearpage 
\section{Programm}
 \begin{description} 
\item[Mo.\ 31.03.\ 08:00--16:00] 
\blindtext 
\item[Di.\ 01.04.\ 16:00--19:00] 
\blindtext 
\item[Mi.\ 02.04.\ 10:00--22:00] 
\blindtext \item[Do.\ 03.04.\ 10:00--18:00] 
\blindtext \item[Fr.\ 04.04.\ 10:00--12:00] 
\blindtext 
\end{description} 
\clearpage 
\section{Danksagung} Ich danke mir! 
\blindtext
 \end{document}

Source: http://texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/5663/flyer-din-lang-hoch-mit-6-spalten/5665

Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us to help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. — , Jun 02 '15 at 16:33
@ChristianHupfer I thought a MWE wouldn't be necessary since I thought of my issue as a general question rather than a specific problem related to my code. Anyway I edited my post accordingly. — idkfa, Jun 02 '15 at 16:43
That would mean anyway that you leaf the effort to users here if you would not have provided a MWE, regardless whether generic or not — , Jun 02 '15 at 16:45
@ChristianHupfer Thanks! Although I'm around for some time here I'm still getting used to how things are done around here. — idkfa, Jun 02 '15 at 16:46
afaik, leaflet works by dividing the document in six pages and then doing the imposition on the fly. I fear you will have to modify leaflet's guts to tell it to make five pages, and redo the imposition yourself. — jarnosc, Jun 02 '15 at 17:53
@Lusr56 Would there be any alternative for me that would require less effort? This will be a one time thing for a while and I could just as well do it with word. However I would like to improve on my TeX knowledge. — idkfa, Jun 02 '15 at 19:18

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-03T07:24:51.417

You can fool leaflet into thinking that the final page is empty and that the “Danksagung” is double column:

\documentclass{leaflet}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{blindtext} 
\usepackage{biolinum} 
\renewcommand\rmdefault{\sfdefault}% Verwende serifenlose Schrift 
\usepackage{mwe}% Dummy Bilder 
\usepackage{xcolor} 
\AddToBackground{1}{\put(0,0){\textcolor{blue!20}{\rule{\paperwidth}{\paperheight}}}}%     Farbiger Hintergrund für 1. Seite 
\begin{document} 
\title{Veranstalung} 
\author{Veranstalter} 
\date{Veranstaltungstag} 
\maketitle 
\thispagestyle{empty}% Keine Seitenzahlen 
\clearpage 
\section{Willkommen} 
\blindtext 
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
 \clearpage 
\section{Programm}
 \begin{description} 
\item[Mo.\ 31.03.\ 08:00--16:00] 
\blindtext 
\item[Di.\ 01.04.\ 16:00--19:00] 
\blindtext 
\item[Mi.\ 02.04.\ 10:00--22:00] 
\blindtext \item[Do.\ 03.04.\ 10:00--18:00] 
\blindtext \item[Fr.\ 04.04.\ 10:00--12:00] 
\blindtext 
\end{description} 
\clearpage
\makebox[\linewidth][l]{\begin{minipage}[c][\textheight][s]{2.2\linewidth}
\section{Danksagung} Ich danke mir! 
\blindtext

\vfill
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.9\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\end{minipage}}
 \end{document}

enter image description here

Here's the version for getting the program to span two columns.

\documentclass{leaflet}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{blindtext} 
\usepackage{biolinum} 
\renewcommand\rmdefault{\sfdefault}% Verwende serifenlose Schrift 
\usepackage{mwe}% Dummy Bilder 
\usepackage{xcolor} 
\AddToBackground{1}{\put(0,0){\textcolor{blue!20}{\rule{\paperwidth}{\paperheight}}}}%     Farbiger Hintergrund für 1. Seite 
\begin{document} 
\title{Veranstalung} 
\author{Veranstalter} 
\date{Veranstaltungstag} 
\maketitle 
\thispagestyle{empty}% Keine Seitenzahlen 
\clearpage 
\section{Willkommen} 
\blindtext 
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
 \clearpage 
\makebox[\linewidth][l]{\begin{minipage}{2.2\linewidth}
\section{Programm}
 \begin{description} 
\item[Mo.\ 31.03.\ 08:00--16:00] 
\blindtext 
\item[Di.\ 01.04.\ 16:00--19:00] 
\blindtext 
\item[Mi.\ 02.04.\ 10:00--22:00] 
\blindtext \item[Do.\ 03.04.\ 10:00--18:00] 
\blindtext \item[Fr.\ 04.04.\ 10:00--12:00] 
\blindtext 
\end{description}
\end{minipage}}
\clearpage % end the column
\mbox{}
\clearpage % end the spanned column
\section{Danksagung} Ich danke mir! 
\blindtext

\end{document}

enter image description here

Thank you so much. I would need the double page after the welcome page with the image, where Programm starts. I tried to fiddle around with your code but I only got it overlapping. Via \makebox you create the double column, I think I got that so far. With \minipageyou fill that box I guess. Why is that necessary? I seem to be missing the part where you define the last page as empty. If you could elaborate a tad more on what you did, that would be great! — idkfa, Jun 03 '15 at 07:06
@idkfa The \makebox is for making TeX think the text fits in a column; inside it the minipage sets the width of its contents two twice the line width (plus some eye computed intercolumn space). I added another version, hoping it's what you need. — egreg, Jun 03 '15 at 07:25
This is exactly what I needed. From what I see you took two different approaches here. The \mbox for keeping the spanned`Text together makes sense. As for your first version, since I want to understand everything, how do did you fool leaflet into thinking the last page is empty? Simply by using the 2 column text and not using it? I hope I understood everything so far. — idkfa, Jun 03 '15 at 07:37

John Kormylo · Answer 2 · 2015-06-02T19:51:35.913

One can also create leaflets using flowframe. It isn't as easy, but creating an extra wide page is trivial. I wasn't sure if the fourth or fifth page was supposed to be the wide one.

Remove the asterisks to stop showing the frame edges.

\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage[margin=.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{flowfram}

\pagestyle{empty}

\setlength{\columnsep}{1in}
\newlength{\mywidth}
\setlength{\mywidth}{\dimexpr \textwidth-2\columnsep}
\divide\mywidth by 3

\newflowframe*[1]{\mywidth}{\textheight}{0pt}{0pt}
\newflowframe*[1]{\mywidth}{\textheight}{\dimexpr \mywidth + \columnsep}{0pt}
\newflowframe*[1]{\mywidth}{\textheight}{\dimexpr 2\mywidth + 2\columnsep}{0pt}
\newflowframe*[2]{\dimexpr 2\mywidth + \columnsep}{\textheight}{\dimexpr \mywidth + \columnsep}{\textheight}
\newflowframe*[2]{\mywidth}{\textheight}{0pt}{\textheight}

\setflowframe{4,5}{angle=180}

\begin{document} 
First page
\newpage
Second Page
\newpage
Third page
\newpage
Fourth Page
\newpage
Fifth page
\end{document}

The fifth should be the wide one. I looked up your commands and was able to switch pages. So far it looks really promising. I'll try and insert my content, headers and everything else I need and see if I can get a long with flowframe. — idkfa, Jun 03 '15 at 07:28

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