General ⇒ Adjusting margins for a single page

[cvp]

This has been driving me crazy for about a day or two now...

I have margins defined by the geometry package. For a single page in my report, I need to put a graphic pretty much flush with the edges of the page itself.
I figured I could do this two ways:

1) Change the footer to the graphic.
The Problem: the footer isn't big enough, and refuses to resize. I need to keep the foot height at 1 inch throughout the majority of the document, so that's what I passed to geometry, but I can't seem to get it to grow for that single page. geometry will only work if it's in the preamble, and I've otherwise tried doing all kinds of things with \footheight and \footrulewidth, to absolutely no avail (they in fact made no changes whatsoever; \footheight isn't even recognized as any kind of anything).

2) Obliterate the footer for that page and stretch the body down through the bottom of the page.
The Problem: similar to the one above; the bottom of 1 inch declared in the invocation of geometry simply refuses to go away. Pushing any text down far enough makes it wrap to the next page, and it never gets closer than an inch away from the bottom.

Help, please?

-cvp

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi cvp,

you could use the textpos package to put the graphic to an absolute position on the page.

Stefan

[cvp]

Stefan,

I think that'll do just fine, thanks!

However, I'd prefer to use a method that actually adjusts the margin and/or foot height itself, for future reference. Also, I have a few other problems that could've been easily fixed by fudging margins that never worked out because of the problems I mentioned in my first post.

Thanks again!
-cvp

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Those packages could do it:

• chngpage
• changepage
• gmeometric

Stefan

[cvp]

Can't say that I've had a lot of success with the three packages you mentioned in your last post, but I found other ways around my assorted problems.

I just wanted to say that for the issue I brought up in my original post (putting a graphic at the bottom edge of the page) textpos worked quite beautifully.

Thanks again!