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I want to design an image filling the whole page using Illustrator, with the right dpi and dimensions. To accomplish this, I need to know the precise dimensions of the text body (Numbers 7 and 8 in the image below). How can I easily accomplish this? I could of course just subtract the borders from the page dimensions, but is there another way, e. g. a package which does that?

Thanks a lot.

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    Do you mean the package layout or layouts: See: http://www.ctan.org/topic/layout-show – Marco Daniel Feb 17 '13 at 14:20
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    They are available as \textwidth and \textheight: if you type \the\textwidth and \the\textheight in your document, LaTeX will print their values in points; the conversions are 72.27pt=1in or 28.45276pt=1cm. – egreg Feb 17 '13 at 14:21

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{layout}

\begin{document}
\layout
\end{document}
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    Do you happen to know how to display the values in millimeters? – Eekhoorn Feb 17 '13 at 14:24
  • @biologue Yes, it's possible. See this question: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/181049/how-to-show-margin-distances-in-mm?noredirect=1#comment422161_181049 – Mario S. E. Jun 04 '14 at 18:50
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You can try the xlayouts beta. It is available at github.

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If you latex the xlayouts.dtx it provides a number of MWE.

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