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The scrbook class calculates margins automatically. For the title page of a book, I would like no margins at all, so that the text would be centered properly.

How can I disable all margins for the title page, and then reactivate them for the inside of the book?

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raphink
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  • Just FYI, the title page is inside the book, and should have normal margins. A book cover is not produced by the \maketitle macro – Koma script recommends (correctly) that a book cover resides in a separate document. – Konrad Rudolph Aug 12 '11 at 15:52
  • Thanks for your comment @Konrad. I was not mentioning the book cover, the title page. – raphink Aug 12 '11 at 16:10

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The geometry package offers you the \newgeometry and \restoregeometry commands to change page dimensions for some part of the document.

I would suggest, however, a different approach: design the title page as a different standalone document, with the desired page dimensions, and then use the pdfpages package to include this title page in your book.

Gonzalo Medina
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For the record, the solution I chose uses pdfpages:

% No margins at all
\documentclass[paper=a5,pagesize=pdftex,DIV=100]{scrbook}

\begin{document}
\input{title}
\end{document}

I build this document with pdftex first, and I replaced:

\input{title.tex}

with 

\includepdf{title_standalone.pdf}

in my main document.

raphink
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You could use the new titlepage package of KOMA-Script and its environment fullsizetitle. This gives you a page without any margin.

Example:

\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{titlepage}
\begin{document}
\begin{fullsizetitle}
\blindtext[13]
\end{fullsizetitle}
\end{document}

title page without margins

Stefan Kottwitz
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  • Thanks, that's very useful. In the meanwhile, I redesigned my title page in Inskape because it was a bit too complex, so I'm sticking to PDF inclusion, but I'll keep that in mind :-) – raphink Aug 14 '11 at 20:22
  • @Stefan Kottwitz : May I ask you what happened to the fullsizetitle-command? I fear it has not been implemented into KOMA, has it? – ClintEastwood Oct 05 '15 at 19:09
  • @ClintEastwood Did you use the titlepage package? – Stefan Kottwitz Oct 05 '15 at 21:30
  • @StefanKottwitz It cannot be found on my system (mactex). It seems that it is not part of the distribution. But why? – ClintEastwood Oct 06 '15 at 03:59
  • @StefanKottwitz : I mean the fullsizetitle-command (and maybe also the rest of titlepage) is so useful that it should be part of KOMA without having to install a new package. Or is it still in alpha/beta? – ClintEastwood Oct 07 '15 at 09:35
  • @ClintEastwood As it's also a collection of ready-to-use title pages. it's good to have it separate. Some commonly usable commands could go to the main classes, that's true. It's just not the case now, but could be encouraged to the author. – Stefan Kottwitz Oct 07 '15 at 10:44
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I had same same issue and discovered, that for more recent versions of KOMA-Script (from 3.12 on), there is the option titlepage=firstiscover present to achieve exactly, what you were looking for.

Just use it as option for your documentclass:

\documentclass[titlepage=firstiscover]{scrbook}

With

\renewcommand*{\coverpagetopmargin}{0mm}
\renewcommand*{\coverpageleftmargin}{0mm}
\renewcommand*{\coverpagerightmargin}{0mm}
\renewcommand*{\coverpagebottommargin}{0mm}

the margins can be removed or likewise set as intended.

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