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My document consist of A3 pages in landscape orientation, except for the first page which I want to be in A4 portrait. How can I change the paper format and orientation of a single page?

I thought I could use \newgeometry:

\documentclass[a3paper]{report} % BTW, is 'a3paper' necessary here also?
\usepackage[a3paper,landscape]{geometry}
% ...

\begin{document}
% ...


\newgeometry{a4paper,portrait}
% ...
\restoregeometry


% ...
\end{document}

However, 1 Preface to Version 5 says for \newgeometry: (...) and skips the papersize-related options: landscape, portrait and paper size options (such as papersize, paper=a4paper and so forth).

telephone
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    Welcome to tex.sx. – barbara beeton May 05 '23 at 22:50
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    What is the difference between the what's included on the (first) A4 and (subsequent) A3 pages? Is there a need for textual flow from the A4 to A3? – Werner May 05 '23 at 22:58
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    https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6834/change-paper-size-in-mid-document or if the first page is a kind of cover, you could create it as a standalone document and load it via \includepdf (package pdfpages). – cabohah May 06 '23 at 06:32
  • @Werner: It is a submission. I wanted A4 portrait should be the intro, and then A3 landscape the presentations. – telephone May 06 '23 at 20:47
  • @cabohah: Yes, the first is a cover, so your solution is actually neat. The only thing is that I have to write double latex files and keep the settings synchronized. I can \input a common settings file, though. – telephone May 06 '23 at 20:50
  • I've read that different formats are not possible with DVI (standard latex output) but has to be PDF. And physically printing such a document is probably not a usual task for a printer. But in this digital age a PDF file can be made for digital view, like a submission of an assigment. – telephone May 10 '23 at 13:59

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