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I'm using \documentclass[10pt, a4paper]{article} in my TeX file. It all works fine, except, the lower bound of each page is cut off. So some text is either cut off, or at least the text reaches the very end of the page.

Has anyone experienced the same issue?

Here is an minimal working example:

\documentclass[10pt, a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage[cm]{fullpage}

\setlength{\headheight}{12.4pt}
\setlength{\headsep}{1.5\headheight}

\begin{document}

\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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\section{a}

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asdlkjf sakfj saoekfsalk lksa jfsakfsaoel jfsaoelkfj saoeflksad jfoelksaf sadfoelkjsa f
asdlkjf sakfj saoekfsalk lksa jfsakfsaoel jfsaoelkfj saoeflksad jfoelksaf sadfoelkjsa f
asdlkjf sakfj saoekfsalk lksa jfsakfsaoel jfsaoelkfj saoeflksad jfoelksaf sadfoelkjsa f
asdlkjf sakfj saoekfsalk lksa jfsakfsaoel jfsaoelkfj saoeflksad jfoelksaf sadfoelkjsa f
asdlkjf sakfj saoekfsalk lksa jfsakfsaoel jfsaoelkfj saoeflksad jfoelksaf sadfoelkjsa f
asdlkjf sakfj saoekfsalk lksa jfsakfsaoel jfsaoelkfj saoeflksad jfoelksaf sadfoelkjsa f
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\end{document}
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    Welcome to TeX.SX! Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}.
    – Mensch
    Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 11:30
  • The interesting fact is, that on another Computer the bounds are getting displayed the right way, without changing anything in the Tex-File.
    – Anderson
    Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 11:33
  • What means "on another computer"? What is the configuration of the machine (operating system, tex distribution,..) that is not working and on which configuration is it working?
    – LostAvatar
    Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 11:41
  • On Ubuntu 12.04 (with default Tex), it is not working properly, on Ubuntu 13.04 it does work properly.
    – Anderson
    Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 11:46
  • Your example (which isn't exactly minimal), doesn't have anything between \begin{document} and \end{document}, so there won't be any output at all.
    – Sverre
    Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 11:54

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Your TeX distribution probably has a default paper size setting that is not A4. Unfortunately, specifying paper size as an option to the document class won't always override this default. Specifically, dvips won't know about the option, and the equivalent part of pdfTeX won't know about it either (the standard document classes predate pdfTeX). The simplest solution is to use the geometry package.

\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}

This sets the variables \pdfpagewidth and \pdfpageheight for pdfTeX, and in dvi mode it inserts specials that tell dvips about the size of the paper.

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    geometry should be loaded before fullpage.
    – egreg
    Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 12:24

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