Single page with huge figure

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I'm writing a paper and I want to insert a figure that should occupy a whole page. Moreover, the figure has small details, so I want to reduce the margins in that page. On the other pages I'd like to use amsart margin settings. I reproduce my attempt below. The problem with that implementation is that the page is not "floating", so there is a big empty area in the preceding page.

\documentclass[10pt,letter]{amsart}
\usepackage[marginratio=1:1,height=584pt,width=360pt,tmargin=117pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[font=small]{caption}
\begin{document}
\title{A note}
\author{me}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum
See Figure~\ref{fig.main}.
\newgeometry{right=5mm, left=5mm} 
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{main_figure.pdf}
\caption{A huge figure.}\label{fig.main}
\end{figure}
\restoregeometry
\lipsum
\end{document}

If you only have to reduce the left and right margin to make the image fit into the page, you might want to take a look at adjustwidth. The solutions presented in https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/16582/134144 might also be useful. — leandriis, Nov 25 '19 at 20:10
I wouldn't try to change the page size with the geometry package. Instead, I'd leave the figure floating, with \begin{figure}[p]. I'd create a new dimension, say \mydimen, and set its size to \textwidth plus 10mm (the amount you've specified in your example with \newgeometry). Then in the figure, I'd insert the graphic with adjustments on the left and right: \noindent\hspace*{-5mm}\includegraphics{width=\mydimen]{...}\hspace{-5mm} The negative \hspaces should allow the graphic to overflow the width equally on each side without triggering an overfull hbox message. (Not tested.) — barbara beeton, Nov 25 '19 at 20:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '19 at 21:28

See if the next solution is what you expect:

\documentclass[10pt,letter]{amsart}
\usepackage[marginratio=1:1,
            height=584pt,
            width=360pt,
            tmargin=117pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[font=small]{caption}
\usepackage[strict]{changepage}

%---------------- show page layout. don't use in a real document!
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand\ShowFrameLinethickness{0.15pt}
\renewcommand*\ShowFrameColor{\color{red}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------%
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\title{A note}
\author{me}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1]
See Figure~\ref{fig.main}.
    \begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{adjustwidth}{-\marginparwidth}{-\marginparwidth}
    \includegraphics[width=\linewidth, height=0.93\textheight]{example-image-duck}
    \caption{A huge figure.}\label{fig.main}
\end{adjustwidth}
    \end{figure}
\lipsum
\end{document}

(red lines indicate page layout)

Single page with huge figure

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