[Tex/LaTex] Simple footer with fancyhdr and pagestyle fancy, article with frontmatter etc

fancyhdrfront-matterheader-footer

I am trying to get a simple on every page but excluding title page. Now I only get footer in front matter and excluding title page. The main matter do not get footer.

Edit: I want a simple footer (same footer) on every page except the title page. Abstract and table of contents, etc shall have roman numbers, the rest Arabic numbers. And I want to use headings to get chapter in top and subchapter when it is a subchapter. I shall look at KOMA-script and if I have to read The LaTeX Companion again. So right now you can wait with answers to I have tried some time. I am coming back with a solution in the weekend. Thanks everybody for the directions I got and for the editing of the code.

Sorry for the confusing first post. I have some postoperative pain and health problem now. But I am feeling better for every day now.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[LE, LO]{Footer}
\title{My awesome title}
\author{Myself}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{abstract}
Hello world.
\end{abstract}
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\newpage
\pagestyle{headings}
\fancyfoot{}
\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Foo bar baz.
\end{document}

output

I think I shall use renew command after \pagestyle{headings} or something to get the footer in the main matter. But how?

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It's not entirely clear to me from the question (I'd use a report- or book-like class for this type of thing), but perhaps

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyfoot{}%
  \fancyhead{}%
}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[L]{\leftmark}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[L]{Footer}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\title{My awesome title}
\renewcommand*{\sectionmark}[1]{\markboth{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{}}
\author{Myself}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\maketitle
\newpage
\pagestyle{fancy}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\begin{abstract}
Hello world.
\end{abstract}
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\clearpage
\section{A demo}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Foo bar baz.
\end{document}

is about what you are after.

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[Tex/LaTex] Header or footer of title page differs with that of main text

The problem is that \leftheadertitlepage is defined only within the titlepage environment, while \lhead sets an interal macro globally. So after of the titlepage fancyhdr wants to but \leftheadertitlepage in the left head but doesn't know what that means anymore! Hence the undefined control sequence error.

To fix this, move the definition of \leftheadertitlepage to thepreamble. Then it will compile without difficulty. But you will also find the code from \leftheadertitlepage on pages after the title page. To shut that off just put \lhead after the titlepage is over.

Here is your rearranged file:

\documentclass[titlepage,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage[demo]{graphics}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[R] {\thepage}
\fancyfoot[C] {}

\newcommand\leftheadertitlepage{%
\begin{tabular}[b]{@{}l}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.6\textwidth}
\includegraphics{test} 
\end{minipage}
Energietechnik GmbH \\
Gesch\"{a}ftsbereich\\
Energietechnik\\
\end{tabular}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\thispagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}

\settototalheight\headheight{\maxof{\leftheadertitlepage}}
\lhead{\leftheadertitlepage}

title page
\pagebreak
\end{titlepage}
\lhead{}% to shut off the placement of `\leftheadertitlepage`

whatever

\end{document}

I'm not sure what it is you exactly want on the title page, but this allows to the document to compile without errors so you can take it to the next step.

[Tex/LaTex] Adding header and footer to the front page (and other pages) of an article

All you have to do is to redefine the plain page style (internally issued by the \maketitle command) to be the fancy style you defined:

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper, english]{article}
\usepackage[top=20mm, bottom=70mm, left=18mm, right=18mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{fancyhdr, lipsum}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}% remove the demo option

\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[C]{\includegraphics[height=40mm,width= \textwidth]{AbstractHeader.jpg}}
\fancyfoot[R]{\bfseries{\thepage}}
\fancyfoot[C]{RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\setlength\headheight{117.89105pt}

\pagestyle{fancy}

\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy 
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\title{Using \LaTeX for industrial documents}
\author{Do \underline{\large{NOT}} list authors in this document}
\maketitle 
\begin{abstract} 
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}
\section{Background}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}

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As azetina mentions in a comment, another option would be to use the background package to place the logo and the footer in all the pages of your document. A little example:

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper, english]{article}
\usepackage[top=70mm, bottom=30mm, left=18mm, right=18mm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}% remove the demo option
\usepackage{background}

\newcommand\Footer{%
\noindent\parbox{.33\textwidth}{\mbox{}}\parbox{.33\textwidth}{RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION}\parbox{.33\textwidth}{\hfill\bfseries\thepage}}

\SetBgColor{black}
\SetBgScale{1}
\SetBgOpacity{1}
\SetBgAngle{0}
\SetBgContents{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node at (0,0.6\textheight) {\includegraphics[height=40mm,width= \textwidth]{AbstractHeader.jpg}};
\node at (0,-0.68\textheight) {\Footer};
\end{tikzpicture}}

\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}
\title{Using \LaTeX for industrial documents}
\author{Do \underline{\large{NOT}} list authors in this document}
\maketitle 
\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{abstract} 
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}
\section{Background}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}

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Some general remarks:

The demo option for graphicx was only used to replace the actual image with a black rectangle; do not use that option in your actual code.
I used height=40mm as an option for \includegraphics to simulate the actual size of the logo; probably you won't need to set that option explicitly.
Most probably you will have to adjust the position of the logo through \SetBgVshift and also of the top margin.
It was not clear why you were using the titlepage environment so I removed it from my examples.

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