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I want to place a tikzpicture in landscape mode in the center of an A4 page. However, I can't use the \textwidth and \textheight commands because this will result in overfull \hbox... or overfull \vbox... errors and an empty first page. I assume there is some tiny margin or indentation somewhere somehow?

I've looked at a couple of threads here, but nothing worked so far. MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,landscape]{minimal}

\usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw (0, 0) rectangle (0.999\textwidth,0.999\textheight);

  % this will give "overfull \hbox..." or "overfull \vbox..." errors
  % and create an empty first page
  % \draw (0, 0) rectangle (\textwidth,\textheight);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}

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Thank you!

Vincent
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Frank Haubenreisser
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1 Answers1

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Welcome! You need to take into account the line width. (I switched to article, as suggested by fractal.) On each end, the bounding box will be increased by \pgflinewidth/2, so you need to correct for that. 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
%\begin{center} %<- not needed
\noindent\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw (0, 0) rectangle (\textwidth-\pgflinewidth,\textheight-\pgflinewidth);
\end{tikzpicture}
%\end{center}
\end{document}