Includepdf jumps a page down

Question

I have tried to use includepdf of a PowerPoint in Appendix. It imports the pdf but it jumps a page down from my title on a newpage. I then tried naming the section inside includepdf but then the title is repeated each time a new slide is added with a number in front. I just want the first title and the first slide to show after then no titles.

Code of Appendix:

 \section*{Appendix}
\appendix
\section{PowerPoint for the first learning course}
%\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
 % \includepdf[pages=1]{pictures/Dag 1 intro.pdf}
%\end{minipage}
\includepdf[pages=-]{pictures/Dag 1 intro.pdf}

Tried looking over here: How to include PDF pages without a newpage before the first page? which had the same problem but it could not resolve it for me for some reason

Regards

Includepdf always inserts a full page, you cannot have section and Includepdf on the same page — daleif, May 02 '21 at 11:54
Therefore you may want to include the first page of the PDF as a normal "image" to avoid the page break, and then include the rest of the pages with \includepdf. \includegraphics[page=1]{pictures/Dag 1 intro.pdf} \includepdf[pages={2-}]{picttures/Dag 1 Intro.pdf} — imnothere, May 03 '21 at 02:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '24 at 14:16

You can use picturecommand*.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages,showframe}
\newsavebox{\includematerial}
\begin{document}
\section{Whatever}
Some text
\clearpage
\appendix
\sbox\includematerial{%
  \parbox[b][\paperheight][t]{\paperwidth}{%
    \vspace{\dimeval{1in+\topmargin+\headheight+\headsep+\topskip-2\baselineskip}}
    \hspace{\dimeval{1in+\oddsidemargin}}%
    \parbox[t]{\textwidth}{
      \section{Appendix}
      \section{Slides for the first learning course}
    }%
  }%
}
\includepdf[
  pages=1-3,
  scale=0.5,
  picturecommand={\usebox{\includematerial}}
]{some.pdf}
\end{document}

Correctly positioning the material is a bit of a black art… The material is placed at the bottom left of the page, so we need to move it at the appropriate spot by using the standard lengths.

Note that showframe is only added for debugging.

Includepdf jumps a page down

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