General ⇒ Challenging problem "Changing Margins"

[totototo1]

Hi;
I have a problem while writing my thesis. There is a regulation for our dept which says:
"The thesis must be submitted on letter-size paper, 8.5 x 11 inches. It must be double spaced, in a standard
type face, with a 1.5 inch (3.81 cm) left hand margin and a 1 inch (2.54 cm) margin at the top, bottom and
right."

I am using a style file which is designed for this purpose but it is not working. The name of this file is cuthesis.sty.

Each time I am compiling from Latex to Pdf (I do not want to use other transformation such as Latex to ps or others)
The MikTex installed is 2.4 (I know this an old version but it is installed on the university's machine) and the Acrobat is 7.0

The body is latex1.tex and the main file is latex2.tex
All these files have been added. I have posted this problem but no one gave a clear solution. Any help is appreciated.

[totototo1]

sorry I forgot to attach the files
check the attachment below.

[pumpkinegan]

Have you tried the geometry package with pdfLaTeX:

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\usepackage[lmargin=3.81cm,rmargin=2.54cm,tmargin=2.54cm,bmargin=2.54cm,pdftex]{geometry}

This will make the geometry defined in cuthesis.sty obsolete:

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\oddsidemargin 0.5in \evensidemargin 0.5in
\marginparwidth 40pt \marginparsep 10pt
%\topmargin 0pt \headsep .5in         % no longer acceptable
%\textheight 8.1in \textwidth 6in     % no longer acceptable
\topmargin 0in \headsep 0in %-0.1 topmargin
\textheight 8.75in \textwidth 6in %9in textheight

It works correctly for me (MiKTeX 2.6, pdflatex.exe).

[localghost]

[…] I have posted this problem but no one gave a clear solution. […]

As you can see, you get the same clear solution as in the other thread. So the problem is on your side. Check the settings of your MiKTeX system. The MiKTeX options offer the setting of the default paper size.