How to set the margin in LaTeX?

Question

I want to set the margin like this:

Paper size:  A4 or US Letter

US Letter first page    Top 72 Left 54 Right 54 Bottom 54 pt
US Letter other pages   Top 54 Left 54 Right 54 Bottom 54 pt

Font embedding: Fonts that are not embedded may be rendered incorrectly

Font subsetting: Subsetting embedded fonts reduces the file size

Type 3 fonts are rasterized fonts, which may impair the on-screen
readability of the document

Oriental fonts require oriental language

How to realize it in the LaTeX form? Thank you so much!

Here at stackexchange. I go to bed now. Your question is easily solved with the geometry package. Have a look in the manual or use the search function here. — Dr. Manuel Kuehner, Nov 02 '15 at 23:19
Do you have text flowing naturally from "US letter first page" to "US letter second page? Or is there a clean break between the two (like in the case with a first-page title and a second page article content)? Also, what about headers and footers in your document? Are they included in/excluded from the measurements you give? — Werner, Nov 02 '15 at 23:21
@Werner, I am a newbie for latex. I use IEEE bare_conf.tex. I do not know how to answer your question. I just want to realize the requirement. Please post an answer here, I will vote! Thanks! — Shawn, Nov 02 '15 at 23:27
@Shawn: Do you know that bare_conf.tex includes the following as a comment in the document preamble: "Do not adjust lengths that control margins, column widths, etc. ... Unless specifically asked to do so by the journal or conference you plan % to submit to, of course." Is this the case? — Werner, Nov 02 '15 at 23:31
@Werner, but the submitting system requires the format I post here. It is not my will. otherwise the system will not accept my paper. I am very newbie for latex. I really do not know how to achieve that. When I start writing my paper, I just use bare_conf.tex as the template. — Shawn, Nov 02 '15 at 23:33
First rule of LaTeX - there are so many things you can do, and so many ways of doing them, that it's always important to include as much information as you can in the question. It's true, we ask for minimal working examples, because we don't want to have to page through stuff that isn't relevant and, no, we don't need to know what you had for breakfast, or what your mother's maiden name is - but, if a piece of information seems in any way related to the question - put it in, my friend, put it in! :) — Au101, Nov 02 '15 at 23:36
That's fine :) The point I was making is you needed to put it in the question to begin with, which would have saved this comment thread and would allow everyone viewing this question to see all the information they need to help you right away. I recommend that you edit your question now, but I was mainly trying to give you some helpful advice for next time. I could see that you are also new to the site, which can be confusing, so I was giving you the most important piece of advice I could - good things come to those who put the information in the question :) — Au101, Nov 02 '15 at 23:42
(By it, I mean the fact you're using bare_conf.tex, the fact that the submission system requires the format, and the fact that you're writing a 4-page conference paper. Put it in, my friend, put it in! :) ) — Au101, Nov 02 '15 at 23:43
@Au101, I edit the question according to the submitting system. — Shawn, Nov 02 '15 at 23:46

Werner · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-02T23:59:52.123

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Here is one option, using geometry. Add the following to your preamble:

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
  paper=a4paper,
  margin=54pt,
  includeheadfoot
}

This sets all margins (top, bottom, left and right) to be 54pt on an A4 page (use paper=letterpaper if you're using US Letter size). Additionally, the margins are set to include the header and footer as part of the specification. This, however, doesn't meet the requirements for the first page, which has to have a top margin of 72pt (18pt more than the other pages). For this, I'd insert an appropriate vertical adjustment on the first page by also adding

\renewcommand{\IEEEtitletopspaceextra}{\dimexpr-\headheight-\headsep+18pt\relax}

somewhere within your document preamble.

edited Nov 02 '15 at 23:59

answered Nov 02 '15 at 23:54

Werner

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it is not 74pt. It is 72, there is no 74 in my requirement. Please update your answer. – Shawn Nov 02 '15 at 23:59
I add this "\renewcommand{\IEEEtitletopspaceextra}{\dimexpr-\headheight-\headsep+18pt\relax}" below " \begin{document} ". There is error pop up. – Shawn Nov 03 '15 at 00:03
The error is :! LaTeX Error: \IEEEtitletopspaceextra undefined. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H for immediate help. – Shawn Nov 03 '15 at 00:04
How to fix the problem? Please update your answer! – Shawn Nov 03 '15 at 00:05
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@Shawn: Please update your distribution and try again. – Werner Nov 03 '15 at 00:05
I do not understand the link you send to me – Shawn Nov 03 '15 at 00:15
I am windows 7. Can you teach me a easier way? – Shawn Nov 03 '15 at 00:15
@Shawn: Then you're either using MiKTeX or TeX Live. Which is it? – Werner Nov 03 '15 at 00:16
I use MikTex to edit my .tex file – Shawn Nov 03 '15 at 00:25
@Shawn: No, MiKTeX is your distribution. You edit your .tex files with something else (like TeXnicCenter). You can probably follow these directions. – Werner Nov 03 '15 at 00:34
I update MikTex ,but there is still the same error there. I do not understand what you specifically want me to do ? – Shawn Nov 03 '15 at 00:40
You mention you use bare_conf.tex. When I use bare_conf.tex (notice the link) and compile it with my suggestion, I don't get any errors. I have an up-to-date system, since the version for IEEEtran.cls I have is 2015/08/26 V1.8b. What do you have? To see, add \listfiles to your preamble, as suggested in Which package version am I using? – Werner Nov 03 '15 at 00:45
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@Shawn please try not to badger users like this, they're people with lives (mostly, one of us is a duck, actually) who use their free time to help you for nothing. It's nice to help people, and users get some meaningless rep points out of it - but they cannot change these up at the bank and go out and buy a sandwich. I understand that you are eager - perhaps desperate - to get a solution, but don't pester people. This isn't a support team you're paying a subscription to, from whom you can expect an answer. It's a Q&A site. Manners, my friend, respect, patience, gratitude. – Au101 Nov 03 '15 at 02:50

How to set the margin in LaTeX?

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