How do I embed multi-page pdf in a pdf?

[bergsmat]

Description

I'm using Quarto 1.6.40 with RStudio 2024.12.0 and R 4.4.2.

I created an instance of the quarto book template. I revised index.qmd like this:

# Preface {.unnumbered}

This is a Quarto book.

To learn more about Quarto books visit <https://quarto.org/docs/books>.

```{r}
1 + 1
```

![](https://haozhu233.github.io/kableExtra/awesome_table_in_pdf.pdf)

I'm really happy with how the page is embedded. But it is only the first page. Is there a way to get all the pages? Elsewhere I tried \includepdf[pages=-, scale=0.8, frame]{my_file.pdf} (with \usepackage{pdfpages}) but that solution does not display quarto's native margins (page numbers, etc). I saw https://github.com/jmgirard/embedpdf but as advertised it supports html only. Per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52486342/how-to-add-a-multipage-pdf-to-rmarkdown , I tried iterating from 1 to n-pages, but quarto escapes the latex characters from my loop, despite output: asis:

```{r}
#| echo: false
#| output: asis
file <- 'https://haozhu233.github.io/kableExtra/awesome_table_in_pdf.pdf'
for(i in 1:30){
  cat('\\begin{figure}\n')
  cat(sep='', '\\includegraphics[page=',i, ']{', file,'}\n\n')
  cat('\\end{figure}\n')
}
```

I tried wrapping in fences with {=latex} but I'm missing something important. Suggestions welcome.

[mcanouil]

Did the following not work?

```{=latex}
\includepdf[pages=-, scale=0.8, frame]{my_file.pdf}
```

(Or the span/inline version)

Please take the habit to provide the steps to get a reproducible example, here it does not need to be a book.

[bergsmat]

Thanks for the suggestion:

```{=latex}
\includepdf[pages=-, scale=0.8, frame]{my_file.pdf}
```

This works provisionally, but as I indicate above it does not preserve the quarto headers, footers, page numbers etc. that would otherwise be present.

For reproducibility (original example): I modified index.qmd as indicated in the quarto template and then ran quarto render at the terminal prompt in RStudio. Good to know that it's a general issue and not specific to 'book'. Feel free to ignore the second code chunk above (output: asis) as it is illustrative only and lacks sufficient detail for reproducibility.

[roaldarbol]

For anyone else: You need to add \usepackage{pdfpages} somewhere too.

(@mcanouil please make sure to provide a reproducible example - just joking, couldn't resist on this occasion) ;-)

[mcanouil]

(@mcanouil please make sure to provide a reproducible example - just joking, couldn't resist on this occasion) ;-)

To be fair, I only commented with provided informations. Take a look at the first message of this thread. It also mentioned the package. 😜

[bergsmat]

The code below worked for me (suggested by the latex output for ![](https://haozhu233.github.io/kableExtra/awesome_table_in_pdf.pdf)). I needed to download the file first, and it is required to know in advance which pages to select (don't know how to specify "all"). Note this is just a quarto pdf, not book. Maybe it is cheating to use \pandocbounded{}, but the result is lovely and scaleable!

---
title: "embed pdf"
format: pdf
---

```{r}
#| echo: false
#| output: asis

# https://haozhu233.github.io/kableExtra/awesome_table_in_pdf.pdf 

for(i in 1:3){
  cat(
    '\\pandocbounded{\\includegraphics[keepaspectratio, page=',
    i, 
    ']{awesome_table_in_pdf.pdf}}\n'
  )
}
```

[mcanouil]

That's one way. There is likely a pure LaTeX method that does not involve compute engines.

Note that you could use includepdf with offset, scales, etc.