Cfrgtkky

In the following sample, the geometry doesn't change even though I believe it should. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}

usepackage{afterpage}

usepackage[bottom=5cm]{geometry}

begin{document}

afterpage{newgeometry{bottom=1cm}}

lipsum

lipsum

end{document}

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}

%please, no:-)usepackage{afterpage}

%usepackage[bottom=5cm]{geometry}

begin{document}

enlargethispage{-5cm}

lipsum

lipsum

end{document}

afterpage puts it argument in a group and then (most of) the settings of newgeometry don't work as you can see here:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}

usepackage{afterpage}

usepackage[bottom=5cm]{geometry}

begin{document}

lipsum

lipsum

{newgeometry{bottom=1cm}} %bottom ignored

lipsum

lipsum

newgeometry{bottom=1cm}

lipsum

lipsum



end{document}

The trick is not using newgeometry, that would issue a page break anyway, but enlargethispage; with fancyhdr you are ensured that the footer will stay in position, it's only sufficient to smash the giant footer for the first page.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{fancyhdr}

usepackage{graphicx}



usepackage{lipsum}



pagestyle{fancy}

fancyhf{}

renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0pt}

fancyfoot[C]{smallthepage}



fancypagestyle{first}{%

  fancyhf{}%

  renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0pt}%

  fancyfoot[C]{giantfooter}%

}



newcommand{giantfooter}{%

  leavevmodesmash{includegraphics[height=5cm]{duck}}%

}



begin{document}

thispagestyle{first}enlargethispage{-5cm}



lipsum[1-20]



end{document}

Here is a solution

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}



usepackage{atbegshi}

usepackage[bottom=5cm]{geometry}

begin{document}

makeatletter

AtBeginShipoutNext{%

globaladdtolength{textheight}{4cm}%

globalsetlength{@colht}{textheight}}

makeatother

lipsum

lipsum

lipsum

lipsum

lipsum

end{document}

After searching the entire internet for a solution (the ones listed here did not work for my setup), I finally came up with this one:

%setup your default geometry:

usepackage[a4paper, left=2.3cm, right=2.3cm, bottom=2.0cm, top=3.0cm]{geometry}



%use this package to get the "on-every-page-do-this-Hook" below

usepackage{everypage} 



begin{document}



%this line registers the reset-hook:

AddEverypageHook{ifnumvalue{page}=2restoregeometryelsefi}



%and this line sets your special geometry which is cleared by the hook above on page N (with N=2 in this case)

newgeometry{left=2.3cm, right=1.7cm, bottom=2.0cm, top=9.7cm}

EDIT:

After wrapping up my proposal to a compilable example spanning several pages with lorem-ipsum-text I found it actually not working properly!

So, instead, the afterpage-package in combination with globaldefs=1 seems like the way to go here:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}

usepackage{afterpage}

usepackage[bottom=5cm]{geometry}

begin{document}

afterpage{globaldefs=1 newgeometry{bottom=1cm}}

lipsum

lipsum

end{document}