Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Margins adjustment when changing to b5 paper size and twosid

[templateuser]

Hello,

I am using this template to write my masters thesis and it works perfectly, thank you! My university recently informed me that I need to hand in my thesis in an b5-format, twoside. I changed the documentclass to the following:

\documentclass[11pt, english, b5paper, twoside]{Thesis}

and added the extra

\setboolean{@twoside}{true}

right before the title page, which gave two sided margins. I did not do any changes in the cls file, but it worked.

Now I am a little concerned about the b5 format. Will the change in documentclass successfully change the whole document into this format? I do not see any change in the appearance of the document in pdf, it still looks like a4. Will the whole page just be smaller or do I need to adjust some margins to get a correct appearance of the thesis.

Where in the thesis.cls file do I have to make changes? Help would be greatly appreciated as I am really worried about having to change the whole documentclass to make my thesis fit.

Thank you so much for your help!

Best regards,

Kate

[Vel]

Hi Kate,

It doesn't look like b5paper is changing anything since Thesis.cls doesn't take this as an option. You should be able to scale the PDF to print on B5 paper as a printing option.

To change the margins, go into Thesis.cls and find the \setmarginsrb command on line 74. There you'll find all the margin options you might wish to edit.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Vel