[Tex/LaTex] Insert graphic and stretch to textwidth, textheight

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I'm trying to insert a graphic and stretch it to textwidth and textheight. I get a overfull box and an empty page befor the graphic. But it works when I only strech in horizontal reps vertical direction. Why I can't stretch in both directions?

This works as I want

\documentclass[]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{mwe}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}
    \includegraphics[height=\textheight]{example-image-a}
\end{document}

But this yields an overfull vbox and an empty page

\documentclass[]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{mwe}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}
    \includegraphics[height=\textheight, width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\end{document}

The only difference is the width=\textwidth.

Best Answer

The issue appears to be one of roundoff. Changing

\includegraphics[height=\textheight, width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}

\includegraphics[height=.9999\textheight, width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}

fixes the problem, whereas an extra 9,

\includegraphics[height=.99999\textheight, width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}

breaks it again. Such roundoff issues should not be too surprising, if one considers that constraining both the height and width is not a pure scale, but will require several constrained length multiplications in order to determine the final aspect and dimensional scale.

This MWE demonstrates the issue:

\documentclass[]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{mwe}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\pagestyle{empty}
\newsavebox\tmpbox

\begin{document}
\the\textheight{} actual textheight

\savebox\tmpbox{\includegraphics[height=.9999\textheight,width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}}
\the\ht\tmpbox{} .9999 is below

\savebox\tmpbox{\includegraphics[height=.99999\textheight,width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}}
\the\ht\tmpbox{} .99999 is above

\savebox\tmpbox{\includegraphics[height=\textheight,width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}}
\the\ht\tmpbox{} scaled to textheight is above
\end{document}

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The textpos package is probably the easiest way to insert a graphic at an absolute position on the page.
eso-pic can do the same and is capable of adding such picture commands to several or all pages.
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Here's an example that you could use as a starting point. Please refer to the documentation of the packages involved and, of course, feel free to adapt and improve my example according to your needs:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{bbding}

% the shaded outter frame
\newenvironment{outshaded}{%
  \def\FrameCommand{\colorbox{yellow!25}}%
  \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}}%
 {\endMakeFramed}

% the hand pointing right, and the "Note" title 
\newcommand*\mysign{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \node[circle,draw,inner sep=2pt] at (0,-0.2) {\HandRight} ;% the hand pointing
    \node at (1.53,-0.2) {\bfseries Note};
  \end{tikzpicture}}

% this environment will be used to typeset the notes
\newenvironment{note}
  {\begin{outshaded}\mysign%
    \begin{adjustwidth}{2cm}{0cm}}
  {\end{adjustwidth}\end{outshaded}}

% some adjustments for the lstlisting environment used to typeset code
\lstset{backgroundcolor=\color{LightSteelBlue!60},
  frame=trbl,
  rulecolor=\color{black!30},
  xrightmargin=7pt}

\begin{document}

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
\begin{note}
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
\begin{lstlisting}
debugfs -R feature /dev/<xxx>
\end{lstlisting}
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
\begin{lstlisting}
cd /tmp
tar -xzvf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-1.41.14.tar.gz
cd e2fsprogs-1.41.14
mkdir -v build
cd build
configure/..
make #note that we intentionally don't 'make install' here!
<misc/mke2fs -jv /dev/<xxx/.
cd /tmp
rm -rfv e2fsprogs-1.41.1
\end{lstlisting}
\end{note}
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

\end{document}

The framed package was used to create the shaded outter box; the changepage package was used to increase the left margin inside the shaded box; the TikZ package was used to draw the circle with the pointing hand from the bbding package (this can be improved), and the "Note" title; the listings package was used to typeset code inside a framed and colored box.

This is the result:

enter image description here

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