Rubenerd

graphicx is the de facto standard for including images in (La)TeX documents. But I noticed on the weekend that importing the package resulted in the margins in the document shifting:

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[b5paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}

I’d been using this for years, so the behavior surprised me. I swapped the document type back to book, and changed my beloved b5paper size to a4paper without any difference. I thought maybe some images were stretching the margins somewhere, but removing the aforementioned visual depictions them also did nothing.

Importing the paper geometry after graphicx fixed it:

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[b5paper]{geometry}

Or defining it in your documentclass if it’s supported:

\documentclass[12pt,b5paper]{memoir}
\usepackage{graphicx}

I love writing in LaTeX, but I always forget small things like this.