How to resize/scale a whole title page if it is not a pdf or a graphic?

Question

So I am creating a title page for my thesis, I am using Classicthesis, and I am using this title page as a draft UNAM thesis title page (portada tesis UNAM). The issue I am having is that the titlepage appears very tiny and is not centered I would like that my titlepage fits the whole page.

Here is my titlepage code:

    \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,titlepage]{book}
\usepackage[spanish,mexico]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
    %*******************************************************
    % Titlepage
    %*******************************************************
    \begin{titlepage}
        \thispagestyle{empty}
        \fbox{
            \begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][c]{0.2\textwidth}
                \begin{center}
%                   \includegraphics[width=1.2\textwidth]{gfx/Logo_ITC_cl.pdf}
                \end{center}
            \end{minipage}
        }
        \fbox{
            \begin{minipage}[c][0.1\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
                \begin{center}
                    {\scshape{TECNOLOGICO NACIONAL DE MEXICO}}
                    \vspace{.3cm}
                    \hrule height2.5pt
                    \vspace{.1cm}
                    \hrule height1pt
                    \vspace{.3cm}
                    {\scshape {INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE CELAYA}}
                \end{center}
            \end{minipage}
        }

        \fbox{
            \begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.2\textwidth}
                \begin{center}
                    \hskip2pt
                    \vrule width2.5pt height10cm
                    \hskip1mm
                    \vrule width1pt height10cm \\
                    %\includegraphics[width=1.5\textwidth]{gfx/Logo-TecNM.pdf}
                \end{center}
            \end{minipage}
        }
        \fbox{
            \begin{minipage}[c][0.6\textheight][t]{0.65\textwidth}
                \vspace*{1cm}
                \begin{center}
                    {\Large \scshape {\begingroup \color{red}{myTitle}
                            \endgroup}}

                    \vspace{2cm}

                    \makebox[5cm][c]{\huge T \hspace{0.5cm} E \hspace{0.5cm} S \hspace{0.5cm} I \hspace{0.5cm} S  }  \\[8pt]
                    QUE PARA OBTENER EL TITULO DE:\\[5pt]
                    {\large{myDegree}}\\[40pt]            
                    PRESENTA:\\[5pt]
                    {\large{myName}}

                    \vspace{1cm}

                    {TUTOR:\\ \large{{myProf}}}

                    \vspace{0.5cm}

                    myTime
                \end{center}
            \end{minipage}
        }
    \end{titlepage}   
\end{document}

And this is the output

I tried using \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{content} but this happens:

Any ideas?

John Kormylo solved it in a very acurate way.

Another solution I found is putting every minipage beetwen scalebox{1.2}{content} from the graphicx package, it does the trick but is not as sharp and acurate as John Kormylo's.

Questions seeking debugging help ("why isn't this code working?") must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest code necessary to reproduce it in the question itself. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers. See minimal working example (MWE). — Henri Menke, Dec 20 '17 at 00:54
Excuse me if I was not clear enough, I want the titlepage to fit the whole page, you can see in the pictures that I am not achieving this. Also I think that it is neccesary to include all the elements of my titlepage that is why the long MWE — Paul Lara, Dec 20 '17 at 01:13
It was designed that way: .2\textwidth+.65\textwidth=.85\textwidth. Perhaps it is intentional. — John Kormylo, Dec 20 '17 at 04:10
The adjustbox package gives you a adjustbox environment which allows you to scale its content, e.g. \begin{adjustbox}{varwidth=\textwidth,width=\textwidth} ... \end{adjustbox}. You could also add height=\textheight,keepaspectratio if the height is limiting the zoom. — Martin Scharrer, Dec 20 '17 at 18:40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '17 at 04:48

The original code was wasting space. This version uses all of it.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,titlepage]{book}
\usepackage[spanish,mexico]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
%\usepackage{showframe}% show extent of text area

\newlength{\maxwidth}
\newlength{\maxheight}

\begin{document}
\setlength{\maxwidth}{\dimexpr \textwidth-4\fboxsep-4\fboxrule-\lineskip}%
\setlength{\maxheight}{\dimexpr \textheight-4\fboxsep-4\fboxrule-\lineskip}%
    %*******************************************************
    % Titlepage
    %*******************************************************
        \begin{titlepage}
        \thispagestyle{empty}
        \noindent\fbox{%
            \begin{minipage}[c][0.1\maxheight][c]{0.25\maxwidth}
                \begin{center}
%                   \includegraphics[width=1.2\textwidth]{gfx/Logo_ITC_cl.pdf}
                \end{center}
            \end{minipage}%
        }\hskip\lineskip% symmetry
        \fbox{%
            \begin{minipage}[c][0.1\maxheight][c]{0.75\maxwidth}
                \begin{center}
                    {\scshape{TECNOLOGICO NACIONAL DE MEXICO}}
                    \vspace{.3cm}
                    \hrule height2.5pt
                    \vspace{.1cm}
                    \hrule height1pt
                    \vspace{.3cm}
                    {\scshape {INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE CELAYA}}
                \end{center}
            \end{minipage}%
        }\allowbreak
        \fbox{%
            \begin{minipage}[c][0.9\maxheight][t]{0.25\maxwidth}
                \begin{center}
                    \hskip2pt
                    \vrule width2.5pt height0.9\maxheight
                    \hskip1mm
                    \vrule width1pt height0.9\maxheight \\
                    %\includegraphics[width=1.5\textwidth]{gfx/Logo-TecNM.pdf}
                \end{center}
            \end{minipage}%
        }\hskip\lineskip
        \fbox{%
            \begin{minipage}[c][0.9\maxheight][c]{0.75\maxwidth}
                \vspace*{1cm}
                \begin{center}
                    {\Large \scshape {\begingroup \color{red}{myTitle}
                            \endgroup}}

                    \vspace{2cm}

                    \makebox[5cm][c]{\huge T \hspace{0.5cm} E \hspace{0.5cm} S \hspace{0.5cm} I \hspace{0.5cm} S  }  \\[8pt]
                    QUE PARA OBTENER EL TITULO DE:\\[5pt]
                    {\large{myDegree}}\\[40pt]            
                    PRESENTA:\\[5pt]
                    {\large{myName}}

                    \vspace{1cm}

                    {TUTOR:\\ \large{{myProf}}}

                    \vspace{0.5cm}

                    myTime
                \end{center}
            \end{minipage}%
        }
    \end{titlepage}   
\end{document}

You solved it in an excellent manner – Paul Lara Dec 20 '17 at 18:31 — Paul Lara, Dec 20 '17 at 18:31

How to resize/scale a whole title page if it is not a pdf or a graphic?

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