I am trying to set up a new page geometry with geometry package version 5.9. Earlier (Geometry package version 4.x) the code below would give the right result with a full-width head and foot rule. Now it only goes to 70% of the page. That's a feature according to the manual. So I have two problems.
I understand it's a margin and layout problem, but I don't know how to fix it. Any help will be appreciated.
%!TeX program=pdflatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
% \usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage{lipsum}
% \graphicspath{{./figures/}}
\fancypagestyle{firstpageform}{%
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{1pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}
\newgeometry{%
layout = a4paper,%
top = 75pt,%
hmargin=30pt,
bottom = 75pt,%
headsep = 50pt,%
}%
% \lhead{\raisebox{8pt}{\includegraphics[width=0.15\linewidth]{institute_logo}}}
\chead{\textbf{COMPANY NAME}\\
Address Line 1, Post - YYYYYY,\\
City - PIN, State, Country\\
\texttt{www.company.website}, \texttt{email@id}\\
Contact No: +YY-YYY-YYYY-YYY/ZZZ, +QQ-QQQ-QQQQ-QQQ}
\lfoot{\today}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\thepage/\pageref{LastPage}}
}
% \fancypagestyle{form}{%
% \newgeometry{%
% layout = a4paper,%
% top = 58pt,%
% hmargin = 30pt,%
% bottom = 55pt%
% }
% \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{1pt}
% \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}
% \lfoot{\today}
% \cfoot{}
% \rfoot{\thepage/\pageref{LastPage}}
% }
\setlength{\parskip}{5pt}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
% \pagestyle{form}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{firstpageform}
\lipsum[1-20]
\end{document}
I finally got the answer from here. The trick is to use
\fancyhfoffset[E,O]{0pt}
after using \newgeometry{}
command. The problem of vertical margin still exists to some extent, but not noticeable.