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I am trying to write a footer in every page, but the text in footer (only a few words), is too close to the text of the page. So I want the footer text to shift little bit to the end of the actual page so that the actual text and footer text is easily distinguishable.

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  • Do you mean that you want more space between your text and the footer? May 19, 2013 at 0:28

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Your question is not very clear. It always helps if you supply a small example document. There are many packages for manipulating the footer and page dimensions such as fancyhdr or geometry If you are using those packages then there may be specific commands, but basically you need to add additional length to \footskip so the footer is further away, and reduce \textheight so less text is put on the page to compensate. It is best to work in multiples of \baselineskip to ensure that a full page of text fits on the page without underfull box warnings.

The image shows the original article class 30pt skip and then the affect of adding 10\baselineskip.

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\def\a{One two three four five six seven eight nine ten. }
\def\b{\a\a Red yellow blue green black white. \a}
\def\c{\a\a\par\b\b\b\a\b\a\b\a\b\a\par}
\def\d{\c\c\b\a\a\c\b\b\c\c}

\makeatletter
\def\ps@myfoot{\ps@plain
\def\@oddfoot{The footer text om page \thepage\dotfill}%
}
\makeatother

\addtolength\footskip{10\baselineskip}
\addtolength\textheight{-10\baselineskip}

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{myfoot}

\d
\end{document}

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