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Solved this by adding
So there's a transparent box on the page and it doesn't need text to use the \AddToShipoutPicture*{} and the manually placed textblock areas.

Thank you, it worked.

The problem is I want the twoside and oneside to be identical except the use of colored links and the margins. They aren't identical if the page headers differ. Only reason I'm making a single sided version is digital distribution, it's annoying in PDF viewers when the margin flips which side is ...

Nutshell I am producing two versions of document (magazine) - twoside that is monochrome/grayscale except for cover art, it has colorlinks but they are defined to black. This is version that will go to print shop.

oneside is for digital distribution. It has linkcolor and urlcolor set so where there ...

Oh - TeXLive 2016 with pdflatex on Linux

The pfb file: opticharteroak.pfb
The afm file: opticharteroak.afm

I used the font name fco8a.afm and fco8a.pfb as shown here:

#!/bin/bash

rm -rf files && mkdir files

cp opticharteroak.afm files/fcor8a.afm
cp opticharteroak.pfb files/fcor8a.pfb

cd files

cat <<EOF > fco-drv.tex
\input fontinst ...

I am not using \maketitle, I am using the following code:

% image for title page
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
\newcommand\CoverPage{%
\put(0,0){%
\parbox[b][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight ...

The openany option to \documentclass{} seems to do what I want.

Hello,

I am in the process of creating a retro pulp style magazine, following many of the type-setting conventions I see in older pulp magazines (with some artistic freedom).

It's a two-sided layout, and very often they have a full page image on the page opposite the side the story starts on. I'm ...