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Is there a (La)TeX distribution running on iPad?

Very simple app that I am trying to find: suppose I have written a long text in my Laptop in LaTex but missing images. I am lazy student and I want to just photograph the photos to the document and insert them fast to it. Does there exist some LaTex image-insertion app?

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  1. iPad question to read textbooks and write in Math SE here

  2. Is there a (La)TeX distribution running on iPad? and Now that I can run TeX on my iPad, what shall I TeX?

  3. Image-manipulation question here

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...sorry for proposing closing, I refocused this question now thanks to the feedback. It is not anymore dupe. This request was in my original q. – hhh Sep 29 '12 at 18:47
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Step 1: Take photo in usual iPad way. Step 2: Upload to the TeX Writer Dropbox folder using Dropbox. Step 3: from within TeX Writer, click on the photo and adjust the size as needed. Step 4: click the "copy and paste" button to write the \includegraphics into your LaTeX document. – Andrew Stacey Sep 29 '12 at 19:59
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This is turning into a question more about iPad apps than about TeX and so is in danger of getting off-topic. Indeed, a version of this has now been asked on the apple site. – Andrew Stacey Sep 29 '12 at 22:41
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You can use the online LaTeX editor writeLaTeX to easily add photos to a LaTeX document: capturing a photo is an option on the upload file menu when writeLaTeX is used on an iPad. – John Hammersley Jan 20 at 15:24
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@JohnHammersley use Jquery-uploader Dropzone code to create such "easily add photos to a Latex document". Your thing is a previewer -- if you could add it Apple OS X-style-Dropzone functionality, it may become useful -- not sure yet (uploading photo required clicking many things and then showing it required to remember an one-liner). Please, add DropZone and format detection to do it really "easily" -- hope you success! Demo but make it simpler. I may be able to help with it if you cannot get it done. – hhh Jan 20 at 16:09
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Might want to look into TexPad (9 USD), not sure about directly sharing, but it has dropbox synced up, so you could at least share from dropbox.

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do you know whether you can photograph and then embed that photo straight away to the LaTex document? I had to refocus my question, this feature is something I am really wanting to get: photograph and add fast photos to your LaTex document with iPad. I have laptop to write things fast but adding pictures is a pain. – hhh Sep 29 '12 at 18:43
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AndrewStacey suggested some way to do this in TeX Writer but I could not understand it so I used my laptop to get the images to the DropBox folder in TeX Writer instead of using iPad's camera directly -- slow but anyway this may become handy every-now-and-then.

TeX Writer

Copy images to the "~/DropBox/Apps/TexWriter/" -folder. Now inside Tex Writer, you select the image in the folder -logo and then you align the size of the photo -- this miss here features such as cropping and rotation so very alpha version. Anyway then click "Copy and Exit" and then inside your LaTex -document, hold your finger steady and press "paste".

...work in progress, still missing the feature to add images directly after photographing:

  1. shoot photo

  2. copy-to-clipboard automatically

  3. paste it to some point in the document

  4. automatically add things such as "\usepackage{graphicx}" if not exist, less typing is good in iPad...

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I'm sorry that you don't understand what I wrote. You can take a photograph with the iPad. You can then edit that with an editing application, including crop and rotate. Then you use Dropbox to transfer that to TeX Writer - this is the only step that could do with improving since this involves uploading and downloading it - then TeX Writer provides an interface for defining the includegraphics command. What more do you want? – Andrew Stacey Sep 29 '12 at 21:40
@AndrewStacey moved the image-manipulation -question here. – hhh Sep 29 '12 at 21:58
I have no more to offer on this matter. I've told you what I know. If you don't like it, that's your prerogative. – Andrew Stacey Sep 29 '12 at 22:38

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