[Tex/LaTex] Base document page numbers with pdfpages

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I'm writing a report, in LaTeX. And I need to include, as appendices, other latex documents I have written. I am currently doing this using pdfpages and it works. However, the inserted PDF has no page numbers and it overlays my base documents page numbering, resulting in no page numbers on the PDF pages. My questions:

How to solve the above problem.
Is there a better way to do this.

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pdfpages provides the pagecommand option for \includepdf, which can be used to apply a page style for each page, to print headings and more. For example, add plain page style or your own page style to get page numbers on all included pages:

\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand=\thispagestyle{plain}]{filename}

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[Tex/LaTex] Setting up pdfpages with memoir

I don't know memoir jargon, but if I understood you correctly, you want to insert a PDF that stretches to the normal \textwidth on an otherwise empty page. This can be achieved by defining a customized page style (unless redefined, plain would include a page number) and using the \includegraphics options width and height, which are passed on by pdfpages.

As pointed out by @egreg, with memoir and no pagestyle customizations needed, rather \thispagestyle{empty} should be used. Further, graphicx provides a parameter keepaspectratio which ensures that if both width and height of the PDF are specified, it is scaled such that the aspect ratio is kept and neither width nor height are exceeded.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\fancypagestyle{mystyle}{%
    \fancyhf{}%                             %clear headers, footers
    \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}%     %and remove header rule
}

\begin{document}


\includepdf[pages=1,
            pagecommand={\thispagestyle{empty}}, %is default, only mentioned to show alternative usage of customized mystyle
            width=\textwidth,
            height=\textheight,     
            keepaspectratio,
            frame]{yourfile.pdf}            
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Includepdf pages with page numbering of new document and remove blank page after section heading

The page numbering problem you have already solved. It remains the first page with the section title. You could use \includegraphics[page=3]{Workplan.pdf}, appropriately scaled, after \section. But because of the section, there is less space on the first page, thus the page probably needs to be scaled down.

An alternative is again using pagecommand:

\begin{document}
\includepdf[
  pages=3,
  pagecommand={\section{Workplan}},
]{Workplan}
\includepdf[
  page=4-5,
  pagecommand={},
]{Workplan}
\end{document}

Depending on the margin settings and the first page of Workplan.pdf the section title may collide with stuff of the embedded page.

If Workplan.pdf is also generated by LaTeX, perhaps including/inputting the TeX source might also be an option.

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