afterpagegeometry
In the following sample, the geometry doesn't change even though I believe it should. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage[bottom=5cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\afterpage{\newgeometry{bottom=1cm}}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\end{document}
Your MWE as is does not compile and results in
LaTeX Error: Option clash for package geometry.
But, loading the geometry package just once as:
\usepackage[showframe=true,headheight=1cm,margin=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry}
seems to work fine. Adjusting the setting bottom changes the margin as expected. For instance, using bottom=3in results in the following. I enabled showframe to see the effect.
As @egreg commented, the \geometry command can be used multiple times and the effects are cumulative.
Perhaps you got confused with having multiple \geometry commands and the \usepackage options. So the following will yield the same results as above:
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{showframe=true,headheight=1cm}
\geometry{margin=1in,bottom=1in}
I don't think that you need afterpage and restoregeometry. Use negative space to move your graphic around and avoid overful box messages. E.g.
\section{First Section}%
\lipsum%
\begin{figure}[pc]%
\vspace{-2cm}%move up
\begin{minipage}[t][\dimexpr \textheight + 3cm]{\textwidth}
\centering%
\makebox[\linewidth]{\rule{1.1\textwidth}{\textheight}}
\caption{Main caption of the figure. In reality this runs to two lines long so I'm just filling in space here with meaningless text.}%
\end{minipage}
\vspace{-3cm}%avoid "float to large"
\end{figure}
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