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I use a style file that specifies page margins. I cannot understand the style file, but I guess it specifies bottom margins by using commands such as \vspace, \vskip, \vfil.
When I compile the tex document with pdflatex the margins, especially the bottom ones, change. When I compile the document first to ps then to pdf, the margins are good.
Do you have any idea, what the reason might be?
The contents of the style file can be accessed from http://tinypaste.com/c53d1
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The paper size can be set to any size you need by means of the command papersize={⟨width⟩,⟨height⟩} . Here the text area, the left margin and the top margin are set. The right and bottom margins are automatically computed to fit the page.
Use the "geometry" package and write \newgeometry{left=3cm,bottom=0.1cm} where you want to change your margins. When you want to reset your margins, you write \restoregeometry .
Go to Document > Settings > Page Margins. Uncheck "Default Margins" and change them to what you want manually.
They were designed for handwriting (which is usually much bigger) or for typewriters. Typewriters produced 10 or 12 characters per inch: so on (say) 8.5 inch wide paper, with 1 inch margins, you had 6.5 inches of type, giving ... around 65 to 78 characters: in other words something pretty close to ideal.
Probably because something is defaulting to a page size of 'Letter' and the other path is defaulting to a page size of 'A4' (or vice-versa). You might see if the \documentclass directive in your document allows you to specify page size. If you're using ps2pdf you may also have to specify the output page size. Also, don't forget to specify the destination device (-P IIRC) when using dvips so it renders computer modern fonts correctly in the PDF.
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