In order to make my resume more dense and get more content on a page, I wanted to reduce page margins.
I had been struggling with this issue for a long time and couldn't find any good complete solution online.
However, after several pitfalls, I've managed to resolve all problems now and thought I'd share my solution and maybe help others struggling with the same.
Feel free to edit and improve
Best Answer
This guide assumes you use a file
res.cls
and are able to modify itReduce margins
The geometry package helps reducing page margins, e.g. like
(Default margin is 1 inch.)
However, this will raise errors when compiling, because
res
andgeometry
both use an option namedmargin
. As this post suggests, this can be resolved by changing the line (inres.cls
)to
and in your document
Increase content size
Now, content will be positioned closer to the upper left corner, but still remain in the same box, i.e. produce more visual margin on the right/bottom. To resolve this,
\textwidth
and\textheight
need to be adjusted.They can be overridden by
If this doesn't work, check if those values are overridden later in your file.