[Tex/LaTex] Getting a constant distance between footnote and fancy footer

fancyhdrfootnotesheader-footer

How can I configure the distance between the two? There seem to be a lot of resources dealing with the distance between text and footnote, but not for footnote and footer. My document has multiple distances on different pages, but the minimal example I've produced doesn't (it is well-behaved). I would welcome suggestions on producing a better example, because I don't want to publish the entire document's source.

Look at the first and third image to see how their spacing differs. My document has both distances, on different pages.

Full page
Spaced page

Bad page from the document:

Bad page from document

Minimal code (well-behaved):

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\lhead[eo]{}
\rhead[eo]{}
\chead[eo]{}
\lfoot[eo]{Footer}
\rfoot[eo]{Footer}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}

\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{%
    \kern -3pt
    \hrule width \textwidth height 0.5pt
    \kern 2pt%
}

\setlength{\skip\footins}{1cm} % gap between text and footer
%\setlength{\footskip}{1.5cm}

\begin{document}

Text \footnote{footnote 1} \blindtext

\blindtext \footnote{footnote 2} 

\blindtext \footnote{footnote 3} \footnote{footnote 4}

\blindtext \footnote{footnote 5}

\end{document}

Best Answer

Since you are using the article class, which by default uses \raggedbottom, you can load the footmisc package with the option bottom.

\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}

This (together with \raggedbottom) forces footnotes to the bottom of the page, so they have a constant distance from your fancy foot.

MWE (note that footmisc has to be loaded before hyperref):

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\lhead[eo]{}
\rhead[eo]{}
\chead[eo]{}
\lfoot[eo]{Footer}
\rfoot[eo]{Footer}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}

\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{%
    \kern -3pt
    \hrule width \textwidth height 0.5pt
    \kern 2pt%
}

\setlength{\skip\footins}{1cm} % gap between text and footer
%\setlength{\footskip}{1.5cm}

\begin{document}

Text \footnote{footnote 1} \blindtext

\blindtext \footnote{footnote 2}

\blindtext \footnote{footnote 3} \footnote{footnote 4}

\blindtext \footnote{footnote 5}

\end{document}

Output:

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