Document Classes ⇒ Fancyhdr

[vhii]

Hi, a question about the fancyheader package:

I'm using the package to draw headlines and footlines. I noticed that the footline on the first page containing a footline is always a bit off (i.e. set just a few points higher) in comparison to the footlines of the following pages. Maybe it's also a bit more thick, not sure about that.

This applies only to the first footline appearing in the document, all the others are fine (identical to each other). I.e. when I offset the first appearance of footlines and headlines using \pagestyle{empty}, it still happens on the first page with a footline. This is also not dependent in any way on the content of a page, I've tried various almost empty pages, full pages, pages with floats - no difference.

It's only noticeable when comparing the pages in full view, but anyway.. Has anybody else noticed this? Is this a bug in the package, or maybe I'm doing something wrong after all. The code is copied from an online example, so presumably nothing wrong there..

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\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyhf{} %alle Kopf- und Fußzeilenfelder bereinigen
\fancyhead[L]{\bfseries Studienarbeit} %Kopfzeile links
\fancyhead[C]{} %zentrierte Kopfzeile
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries André} %Kopfzeile rechts
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt} %obere Trennlinie
\fancyfoot[C]{\bfseries Seite \thepage} %Seitennummer
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt} %untere Trennlinie

[localghost]

Please provide a minimal working example (MWE) to make clear the undesired behaviour. If necessary, include screen shots that allow to compare two affected pages. This phenomenon may be more a problem of your viewer than a problem of LaTeX.


Best regards
Thorsten

[vhii]

It doesn't have anything to with the viewer, same thing happens in Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader.

Ok, here some minimal working code:

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyhf{} %alle Kopf- und Fußzeilenfelder bereinigen
\fancyhead[L]{\bfseries Studienarbeit} %Kopfzeile links
\fancyhead[C]{} %zentrierte Kopfzeile
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries André} %Kopfzeile rechts
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt} %obere Trennlinie
\fancyfoot[C]{\bfseries Seite \thepage} %Seitennummer
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt} %untere Trennlinie
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{empty}
Empty page

\newpage
\pagestyle{fancy}
Page with headers

\newpage
Page with headers - shifted!

\newpage
Page with headers - same as previous page

\end{document}

[vhii]

Example picture, this shows page 3 pasted right over page 2. It can be noticed that both text and lower bar are at a different level.

[localghost]

Running your example, I can't see the shown behaviour. Neither in Adobe Reader nor in Foxit Reader. I also processed it under Linux with Kile 2.0 and TeXLive 2007 with the same result. I didn't see any shifting in all the viewers I used (KDVI. KGhostview, KPDF, XPDF). All pages are congruent.

[gmedina]

Same result as the one reported by localghost (using Linux with Kile 1.9.3 and TeXLive 2007).

One only comment, when processing your example code, I got the following warning:

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\headheight is too small (12.0pt):Make it at least 14.49998pt.

So, in the preamble, add something like

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\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}

[meho_r]

I did notice different position of footer lines like in the example above (Kile 2.0, TeXLive 2007, Adobe Reader 8), only on pages 2 and 3. But after \setlength{\headheight}{15pt} the difference has dissapeared.

[vhii]

Yes, \setlength{\headheight}{15pt} fixes the problem. Thanks a lot for your help!