Mastering Page Layout with geometry

Aman Saurav

| Jan 21, 2025 |

4 min read

#layout #formatting

The geometry package makes changing margins and page size trivially easy, saving you from calculating esoteric TeX dimensions manually.

To set standard 1-inch margins around the entire page:

\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}

You can specify different margins for each side:

\usepackage[a4paper, total={6in, 8in}]{geometry}

Sometimes it helps to see the layout boundaries. Use the showframe option:

\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}