[Tex/LaTex] Changing \headheight pushes footer off page

fancyhdrgeometry

Preface: NOT a duplicate of My footer disappears when I increase headheight – I tried the accepted answer here and still ran into issues.

I am using Overleaf to create some documentation for software, and using fancyhdr to customize the header and footers. My header contains images which makes the header somewhat large, so I get an error from LaTeX to increase headheight to a larger value. When I do increase this to the recommended 67pt, it removes the error, but pushes the footer off the page. At first glance, the question at the link I referenced above is a 1-for-1 mirror image of what I need, but I tried includeheadfoot, setting all to 1in margins through geometry, and the footer still runs off the page. I've looked at the fancyhdr documentation exhaustively and cannot find a solution. Below is a MWE, which pushes the footer off the page:

\documentclass[12pt]{article} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage[includeheadfoot, margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr} 
\usepackage{lastpage}
\setlength{\headheight}{67pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{} 

\fancyhead[C]{}
\lhead{\includegraphics[width=6cm]{image.PNG} \hfill \includegraphics[width=3cm]{image2.jpg}  \hfill \includegraphics[width=4cm]{image3.png}} 
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt} 
\fancyfoot[R]{\small ~Page \thepage~of \pageref{LastPage}} 
\lfoot{\small Collections Guide \\ Last Updated: 07/28/2017}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt} 

\begin{document}

First line of the document.

Second line of the document.

\end{document}

How do I get rid of the \headheight warning while also keeping a footer which is at a 1 inch margin from the bottom?

Note: I've only been using LaTeX for about 2 years and for really simple reports, so this is one of the more sophisticated projects I've done so far. I appreciate insight on how I can avoid this issue again in the future, and please let me know how I can edit this question to be more concise.

Best Answer

give geometry the chance to know the headheight you are using by setting it with the geometry options:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot, margin=1in,headheight=67pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\setlength{\parskip}{4pt}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{2pt}{2pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}

\fancyhead[C]{}
\lhead{\includegraphics[height=62pt]{example-image-duck}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[R]{\small ~Page \thepage~of \pageref{LastPage}}
\lfoot{\small Collections Guide \\ Last Updated: 07/28/2017}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}

\begin{document}

First line of the document.

Second line of the document.

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Using \restoregeometry in environment, next page runs off the page bottom

You're using a group too many and don't restore properly the geometry, as the \restoregeometry command is issued when LaTeX is still processing the environment, which forms a group:

\newenvironment{quotepage}[1]
  {\newpage
   \newgeometry{margin=0pt}
   \thispagestyle{empty}
   \centering
   \vspace*{\fill}\vspace{-\baselineskip}
   \begin{minipage}{#1}
   \setlength{\parskip}{0.6\baselineskip}
   \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
  }
  {\end{minipage}
   \vfill
   \clearpage
   \aftergroup\restoregeometry
  }

You may want to look at other solutions, for example TikZ provides the ability to put nodes at the physical page center.

\usepackage{tikz}
\newsavebox{\quotepagebox}
\newenvironment{quotepage}[1]
  {\begin{lrbox}{\quotepagebox}\begin{minipage}{#1}
   \setlength{\parskip}{0.6\baselineskip}
   \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}}
  {\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}%
   \clearpage\thispagestyle{empty}
   \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]  
   \node at (current page.center) {\usebox{\quotepagebox}};
   \end{tikzpicture}
   \clearpage}

[Tex/LaTex] Header on odd pages

Since you have to define the \headheight at the begining of the code within geometry package irredeemably, this will stablish that same height for the header throughout the document.

To change that, you can define a \newgeometry with the \headheight equal to 0pt at the begining of even pages, but you have to redefine your previous geometry in the next page again. This is a manual procedure, but I don't know another way to do that.

Here I post you some code. As you can see, I have defined two styles with \fancypagestyle, one for even pages and another one for de odd ones. If you want to disable the numbering of the pages, just remove the \fancyfoot and \renewcommand\footrulewidth lines inside each style.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\fancypagestyle{odd}{ % 
\fancyhf{} 
\fancyhead[OL]{COURSE}
\fancyhead[OR]{
    \begin{tabular}{ c c }
        NAME  & NO  \\
        NAME1 & xxx \\
        NAME2 & yyy \\
    \end{tabular}
    }
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt} 
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}

\fancypagestyle{even}{ %
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}  
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{odd}

\lipsum[1-2]

\newpage

\thispagestyle{even}
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includefoot,headheight=0pt} %Just \includefoot

\lipsum[1-2] 

\newpage

\thispagestyle{odd} 
\newgeometry{margin=2cm,includeheadfoot,headheight=44pt}

\lipsum[1-2]  

\end{document}

The first page is messed up because the \headheight is by default 12pt but should be 44pt in this case. Is there any way to calculate this automatically? I would like to avoid typing 44pt manually.

I don't know any way to avoid calculate this manually. Just compile your document and wait for the log message referring to the \headheight and set that lenght as minimum.

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