Is there a way to resize margins when exporting PDF in org-mode?

Question

I want to export my org document as a PDF, but its margins are way too big. I would like to re-size them as I wish. I am using

#+LaTeX_CLASS: report

I do not know if there is a way. Any help?

Brian Z · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-04T12:44:45.933

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The simplest way to tweak the formatting of a LaTeX export is by using the geometry package. Try something like this:

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}

edited Aug 04 '18 at 12:44

answered Feb 05 '15 at 17:34

Brian Z

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 24 '16 at 19:22

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Another way to achieve the same effect more permanently is to modify org-latex-packages-alist to add the geometry package, as follows:

(setq org-latex-packages-alist '(("margin=2cm" "geometry" nil)))

answered Apr 24 '16 at 19:22

Andrzej Pronobis

Does this overwrite an existing list, append to it, or is the default empty anyway? – AstroFloyd Jun 04 '19 at 08:19
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@AstroFloyd in my environment, `org-latex-packages-alist` is empty by default. – Mingwei Zhang May 14 '20 at 16:20
One down-side of such modifications could be creating problems for beamer class exporting (geometry package is not compatible with beamer). – neuroprinciplist Feb 01 '21 at 00:23

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