[Tex/LaTex] Page size won’t change even after using geometry package

geometrymargins

I'm trying to change the page size of my thesis document. As adviced in other threads, the graphics package can be used for this purpose. I currently have the following command where I also specified the page margins.

\usepackage[pass,paperheight=26cm,paperwidth=19cm,top=20mm,bottom = 15mm, left = 30mm, right = 30mm ]{geometry}

On the thesis document, the pdf page size wont change from 8.50x11inch. The thesis document contains inputs from 4 other files (4 chapters) too. If I create a new tex file and have the same command, the pdf document will have the correct dimensions. For instance,

\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[paperheight=26cm,paperwidth=19cm]{geometry}

\begin{document}

hello world

\end{document}

Works perfectly. Can anybody tell me why it wouldn't work in my previous file?

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From the geometry user manual (section 5.7 Other options):

pass

disables all of the geometry options and calculations except verbose and showframe. It is order-independent and can be used for checking out the page layout of the document class, other packages and manual settings without geometry.

Remove this from your options and geometry will set the page layout accordingly.

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[Tex/LaTex] Change page layout after first page

In the model that TeX uses there is no way to achieve your goal other than manually or in very very restricted contexts. As TeX is first generating paragraphs and only at the end of a paragraph checking whether or not to cut a page you will always end up on the second page with some part of the paragraph already been typeset (and thus to the width of the previous page).

You can achieve your goal by manually splitting the paragraph yourself (and effectively restarting a new one (with different settings afterwards)). I.e., if you know what the last word on the first page is you can put special command at this point, say, \EndOfFirstPage. The define this command in the preamble or in your class file as follows:

\newcommand\EndOfFirstPage{%
  \setlength\parfillskip{0pt}%  line should end at the right
  \par                       %  finish paragraph for now
  \setlength\parfillskip{0pt plus 1fil}% default again
  \pagebreak
   ...                        % <--- change your geometry settings here
  \noindent                   % new paragraph on the new page that claims to be
                              % a continuation
}

Of course, whenever you later change the text of the first page you may need to move the split point around. Or you could combine the above with your approach using the atbegshi package for setting the geometry and the \EndOfFirstPage only to produce the split. This has the advantage that the geometry would be nearly correct even if the command is not there to indicate the split (only the par at the page break wrong) and you could delay adding \EndOfFirstPage to a time when you are mostly done with the editing.

Automatic methods would involve keeping track of where you are on the page (how many more lines would fit) somehow capturing each paragraph untypeset, trial typesetting it to find out how long it would be, then if necessary generating a complex \parshape so that the lines of the last paragraph on the page change width on the page boundary.

Bottom line, such thing doesn't exist and it is not something that is in any way easy or even possible to be worked out reliably (non of the experts in the last 20 years overcame that limitation). We now think that we do have code for it in the LaTeX3 project but so far only an idea (and one that wouldn't work with current 2e's output routine, so this isn't going to help easily).

[Tex/LaTex] Adding crop marks to a4 document to crop it to book without changing the layout

I guess geometry assumes a oneside is in effect for using crop marks. As such, you can adjust the \layouthoffset using a condition during shipout:

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\documentclass[11pt,twoside,BCOR=10mm]{scrreprt}
\typearea[current]{calc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{setspace,blindtext,etoolbox}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}

\makeatletter
% \patchcmd{<cmd>}{<search>}{<replace>}{<success>}{<failure>}
\patchcmd{\Gm@pageframes}{\ifGm@showcrop}{%
  \ifGm@showcrop
    \ifodd\count\z@
      \setlength{\Gm@layouthoffset}{10mm}%
    \else
      \addtolength{\Gm@layouthoffset}{40mm}
    \fi%

  }{}{}
\geometry{layoutheight=230mm,layoutwidth=160mm,layoutvoffset=30mm,showcrop}

\typearea[current]{last}
\setlength{\textheight}{200mm}
\begin{document}
\blindtext[8]
\end{document}

A patch of \Gm@pageframes to insert the appropriate \Gm@layouthoffset at page shipout.

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