[Tex/LaTex] Landscape, A3/A4 paper with XeTeX

Question

With pdflatex, it seems easy to get a landscape document, on A3 paper. One only needs to add [landscape,a3paper] or [landscape,a4paper] to the document class options. With xelatex, however, these options do not seem to work.

How can I get a landscape mode document, on A3 or A4 paper, with 2 cm margins and no page numbers, headers, or footers in XeTeX for all of the pages of a document?

Answer 1

You could use geometry for document layout and setting the page style (including plain) to empty.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage[margin=2cm,landscape,a3paper]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\pagestyle{empty}% Set page style to empty
\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@empty% Make plain page style equivalent to empty page style
\makeatletter
\begin{document}
\chapter{First and only chapter}
\lipsum[1-50]
\end{document}

The above MWE sets the document page style to empty, which has no header/footer nor header/footer rule. It then also sets the plain page style (\ps@plain) to be exactly the same as that of empty (\ps@empty), since these styles are used as the first pages for chapters within the book and report document classes (including memoir).

You could also have obtained a similar style (if small modifications are required at a later stage) by using the fancyhdr package. For that, the following preamble modifications would result in the same output:

%...
\usepackage{fancyhdr}% http://ctan.org/pkg/fancyhdr
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% Default is 0.4pt
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% Default is 0.4pt
\fancyhead{}% Clear fancy page style header
\fancyfoot{}% Clear fancy page style footer
\pagestyle{fancy}% Set page style to fancy
\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy% Make plain page style equivalent to fancy page style
\makeatletter
%...