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I want to simply write the numbers 2 to 9 as large as possible, across the page, in landscape mode and centred vertically and horizontally. I would like the numbers to take the full width of the page. Here is my attempt:

documentclass{memoir}

usepackage[landscape]{geometry}

usepackage{lmodern}

begin{document}

thispagestyle{empty}

begin{vplace}

centering

{fontsize{70}{84} selectfont 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

end{vplace}

end{document}

I don't like this solution at all however. I am also not convinced it will actually print properly in landscape mode. Do I instead need to write the numbers vertically (rotated 90 degrees) in portrait mode to get them to print properly? The numbers also don't seem to be horizontally centred.

Some notes: I am only using memoir as it gives the vplace environment. I manually selected the font so it would stretch and the font size so it would fit.

The graphicx package offers the resizebox macro which can be used to scale your numbers to the whole available textwidth:

documentclass[landscape]{memoir}

usepackage{geometry}

usepackage{lmodern}



usepackage{graphicx}



begin{document}



mbox{}vfill

thispagestyle{empty}

noindentresizebox{textwidth}{!}{fontsize{70}{84}selectfont 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}%

vfillmbox{}



end{document}

(the thin lines show the geometry of the page)

Using hfill in between the numbers spaces them equally. Also vfill takes care of the vertical centering. Is this what you were looking for?

documentclass{memoir}



usepackage[landscape]{geometry}

usepackage{lmodern}



begin{document}



thispagestyle{empty}

mbox{}vfill

  {centeringfontsize{70}{84}selectfont%

    2 hfill 3 hfill 4 hfill 5 hfill 6 hfill 7 hfill 8 hfill 9%

  }

vfillmbox{}



end{document}

You could potentially enlarge the Numbers a bit more, if you'd shrink the documents side-borders and enlarging the font a bit.

documentclass{memoir}



usepackage[landscape, margin=1cm]{geometry}

usepackage{lmodern}



begin{document}



thispagestyle{empty}

mbox{}vfill

  {centeringfontsize{130}{84}selectfont%

    2 hfill 3 hfill 4 hfill 5 hfill 6 hfill 7 hfill 8 hfill 9%

  }vfillmbox{}

end{document}

That part is almost the same of Tim Hilt, but with a bit simplified code. If figures are too big, you only have to change the 204 by any lower number. The figures will be vertically centered and filling all the page width in all cases.

documentclass{article}

usepackage[landscape,margin=.5cm]{geometry}

usepackage{lmodern}

begin{document}

thispagestyle{empty}

leavevmodevfill

fontsize{204}{0} selectfont 2hfill 3hfill

4hfill 5hfill 6hfill 7hfill 8hfill 9 

vfill

end{document}

If the figures are still small, use a number up to 313 but also add the option a3paper to geometry, or in case of do not have a A3 printer or you want a bigger banner:

documentclass{standalone}

usepackage{lmodern}

usepackage{poster}

begin{document}

fontsize{300}{0}selectfont

poster[vcenter=true,hcenter=true,

paperwidth=21cm,imagewidth=21cm,]

{23456789}

end{document}

It could be in more than two pages, and or without overlap between pages, but it is no so easy guess the result.