Table positioning won't do what I want

Question

I want to write a report Portfolio (Berichtsheft in german) with LaTeX. There has to be a table where I can write in what I did everyday, split up in work hours. And under that two fields where we can sign the pages.

This is what I do have until now:

 \documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article} 

\usepackage{ngerman} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage{fancyhdr} 
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage{eso-pic} 
%\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{float}



%\tymin=2cm
%\tymax=15cm


\newcommand{\foot}[5]{% 
\AddToShipoutPicture*{ 
  \setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}  
  \put(21,34){
    \begin{tabularx}{183mm}{|p{0.1\textwidth}|c|c|c|}\hline
        \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\footnotesize \textbf{Auszubildender}} 
      & \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\footnotesize \textbf{Ausbildender bzw. Ausbilder}} \\[1cm] 
     \multicolumn{1}{|l}{................} 
      & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{........................................................} 
      & \multicolumn{1}{|l}{................} 
      & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{........................................................} \\[-2mm] 
     \multicolumn{1}{|l}{\footnotesize Datum} 
      & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\footnotesize Unterschrift} 
      & \multicolumn{1}{|l}{\footnotesize Datum} 
      & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{\footnotesize Unterschrift} \\ \hline
    \end{tabularx}
  }
} 
} 



\newcommand{\head}[4]{%
    \begin{center}%
      \begin{tabular}{rl} 
       \textbf{Ausbildungsjahr:} & #1 \\ 
       \textbf{Ausbildungsnachweis Nr.:} & #2 \\ 
       \textbf{für die Woche:} & \textbf{vom} #3 \textbf{bis} #4 \\ 
       %\textbf{Betrieblicher Funktionsbereich:} & #5 \\ 
      \end{tabular} 
    \end{center} $ $ \\[8mm]
} 

\fancyhead[L]{ 
      \begin{tabular}{ll} 
        \large \textbf{Name des Auszubildenden:} & MAX MUSTERMANN \\ 
        \large \textbf{Ausbildungsbetrieb:} & MUSTERMANN AG \\ 
      \end{tabular} 
} 

\fancyhead[CR]{} 
\fancyfoot[LCR]{} 

\pagestyle{fancy} 

\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.3pt} 
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.0pt} 

\begin{document} 

\begin{titlepage} 
  \begin{center} 
    \Huge{\underline{\textbf{Ausbildungsnachweis}}} 
  \vspace{5cm}
\end{center}

\begin{table}[ht]
  \begin{tabular}{lll}
    \textbf{Name}   &   :   & \textbf{MAX MUSTERMANN} \vspace{0.5cm} \\ 
      geboren am    &   :   & 01.01.1900 \vspace{0.5cm} \\
      in            &   :   & MUSTERSTADT \vspace{0.5cm} \\
      Anschrift     &   :   & MUSTERSTADT    
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\vspace{1cm}
\hrule
\vspace{1cm}

\begin{table}[ht]
  \begin{tabular}{lll}
    \textbf{Ausbildungsbetrieb} &   :   & \textbf{MUSTERMANN AG} \vspace{0.5cm} \\    
      Anschrift                 &   :   & MUSTERSTADT \vspace{0.5cm} \\
      betrieblicher Ausbilder   &   :   & MAIK MUSTERMANN \vspace{0.5cm} \\
      Ausbildungsberuf          &   :   & Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration \vspace{0.5cm} \\
      Ausbildungsdauer          &   :   & 09/2014 bis 09/2016
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{titlepage} 

\oddsidemargin-3mm 
%\evensidemargin-3mm 
\topmargin-10mm 
\textheight30cm 
\headheight5mm 
\textwidth30cm 
\headwidth183mm 
\headsep7mm 
\hoffset-7mm
\voffset-10mm


\head{1.}{5}{2006-09-25}{2006-09-29}

\begin{table}[H]
\begin{tabularx}{183mm}{|c|p{144mm}|c|c|}\hline
    & & & \\
    Zeit & Betriebliche Tätigkeiten & Std. & Std. \\ 
    & & & \\ \hline
    \multirow{6}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\large \quad Montag \quad}} &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\ \hline
    \multirow{6}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\large \quad Dienstag \quad}} &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\ \hline
     \multirow{6}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\large \quad Mittwoch \quad}} &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\ \hline
     \multirow{6}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\large \quad Donnerstag \quad}} &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\ \hline
     \multirow{6}{*}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{\large \quad Freitag \quad}} &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\
     &  & & \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{table} 

\foot



\end{document}

The problem is that my "footer" is on the first page, but my table is on the second page. I tried to make the table smaller, but it won't help and I do need such a "big" table for my report.

How can I get my table above my footer?

Answer 1

I tried to create a minimal example to illustrate the idea based on your code but since the code seems to want to do very odd things and I don't know the desiderata, I failed horribly.

So, here are just some notes:

• Don't set page dimensions manually if using geometry. Use \usepackage[<options>]{geometry} or \geometry{<options>} in the preamble. In the document, you can alter this with \newgeometry{<options>}.

• Read the console output to figure out the required head height. fancyhdr tells you this. In your case, you need to pass geometry headheight=29pt as the minimum required to ensure consistent page layout.

• tabularx requires that at least one column be of type X. If you don't want this, use tabular instead.

• If you say \newcommand\fancycommand[5]{...} then \fancycommand needs 5 arguments and will cause a fatal error otherwise. If you aren't doing anything with the arguments anyway (as here), just say \newcommand\fancycommand{...}.

• Note that TeX cannot meaningfully use a text height and width which exceeds that of the paper. It makes no sense to ask for a 300x300mm text block if you are using A4.