Change page margins for table

Question

I have a large table and want to put it on a page with smaller margins. A quick and dirty way would be

\clearpage \newgeometry{margin=1cm} \begin{table} ... \end{table} \restoregeometry

However, this doesn't allow the table to float anymore.

I read the following Q&A: Standard way of handling oversize pages? But found 2 problems:

for the horizontal adjustment I try use addmargin from KOMA script. It does the job, but I get an overfull hbox warning for every single line of the table, which makes log files really unreadable. Also it only changes the width of the table but not the table caption.
for the vertical adjustment neither enlargethispage nor addlines works inside the table environment. And just doing \vspace* has the disadvantage that the table cannot be vertically centered on the page.

the perfect solution would be to have something like \newgeometry but within the floating environment. Is there anything like this?

horizontal margins can just be ignored eg put the tabular in \makebox[0pt[]{...} vertical can also be ignored so long as you have space between the page head and page foot, or if they are blank no reason why vspace should stop you centering in the available space. — David Carlisle
– David Carlisle, Commented Jan 7, 2017 at 19:10
How to center vertically when using vspace? To center it vertically I have to know the size of the vspace, right? — Jonas
– Jonas, Commented Jan 7, 2017 at 21:33
you can use \vspace*{\fill} above and below which will center vertically just as \hspace*{\fill} to left and right centres horizontally, so then you just need to arrange that the box is whatever size fits but you should know in advance the distance between your page head and foot. — David Carlisle
– David Carlisle, Commented Jan 7, 2017 at 21:35

Bernard · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-07 20:26:38Z

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Load the changepage package, and use this code to adjust locally the margins:

\begin{table} \begin{adjustwidth}{–some length}{–some other length} ................ \end{adjustwidth} \end{table}

answered Jan 7, 2017 at 20:26

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Gorka · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-03 14:30:00Z

The adjustwidth environment of changepage takes two arguments, both of which are adjustments inward from the existing margins. So,

\begin{adjustwidth}{-1cm}{-1cm} % <stuff> \end{adjustwidth}

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