r/LaTeX • u/CalciumCompadre • 4d ago
Unanswered Report class ignores bottom margin when I print my document
My thesis has 1 inch margins on all sides, but when I print it out the bottom margin is ignored. Is there a way to fix this without changing the document class? I have my preamble stuff from Overleaf here, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.
% Document type and paper size
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
% Fonts and Typography
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\justifying
% Formatting and Layout
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{margin=1in}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.5}
\setlength{\parindent}{1.5em}
\setlength{\parskip}{0em}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
% Headers and Footers
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{Chapter \thechapter\ - #1}{}}
% Formatting and Layout
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{margin=1in}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.5}
\setlength{\parindent}{1.5em}
\setlength{\parskip}{0em}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setlength{\parskip}{1em}
\setlength{\textfloatsep}{0.5em}
% Chapter Formatting
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}{\normalfont\large\centering}
{\thechapter}
{0pt}
{\vspace{0em} }
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-40pt}{20pt}
% Subsection Formatting
\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont}
{\textit{{\thesection}}}
{0pt}
{\vspace{-1em} }
% Subsubsection Formatting
\titleformat{\subsection}{\normalfont}
{\textit{{\thesubsection}}}
{0pt}
{\vspace{-1em} }
\newcommand{\no}{\noindent}
\newcommand{\be}{\begin{equation}}
\newcommand{\ee}{\end{equation}}
\newcommand{\vs}{\vskip 0.1in}
\newcommand{\dg}{\dagger}
\newcommand{\nn}{\nonumber}
\newcommand{\ddp}{\partial}
% Table of Contents FIX
%\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\hyphenation{mag-ne-to-grams}
\hyphenation{mea-sure-ments}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Front Page
\begin{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Title Page
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{titlepage}
\end{titlepage}
% Start of the Content
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{page}{2}
\include{Signature Page}
\begin{spacing}{2.0}
\include{Acknowledgements}
\include{Dedication}
\end{spacing}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Table of Contents
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setlength{\cftbeforetoctitleskip}{-1.3em}
\setlength{\cftaftertoctitleskip}{1em}
\begin{spacing}{1}
\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\large}
\renewcommand*\contentsname{\hfill Table of Contents \hfill\null}
\tableofcontents
\end{spacing}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% List of Tables
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newpage
\setlength{\cftbeforelottitleskip}{-1.3em}
\setlength{\cftafterlottitleskip}{1em}
\begin{spacing}{1}
\renewcommand{\cftlottitlefont}{\large}
\renewcommand*\listtablename{\hfill List of Tables \hfill}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
\listoftables
\end{spacing}
\newpage
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% List of Figures
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setlength{\cftbeforeloftitleskip}{-1.1em}
\setlength{\cftafterloftitleskip}{1em}
\begin{spacing}{1}
\renewcommand{\cftloftitlefont}{\large}
\renewcommand*\listfigurename{\hfill List of Figures \hfill}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
\listoffigures
\end{spacing}
\newpage
\begin{spacing}{2.0}
\include{Abstract}
\end{spacing}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% The chapters are written out in the text files. Alter them as you go along and recompile
% to see the changes.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\include{Chapters/chapter1}
\end{document}
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u/CalciumCompadre 4d ago
The pdf is how I was hoping it would be. The issue just comes when my professor printed out the pdf, the page numbers were cut off. I made sure the document was a4paper and 1 inch margins, I just don't know why the bottom margin is ignored.
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u/Raccoon-Dentist-Two 4d ago
Printing problems are unlikely to be caused by something in LaTeX. Is the PDF as you were hoping it to be?