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Text decoration is trimmed off with standalone package

I am decorating an arc with text as shown in this MWE using the standalone class: \documentclass[10pt,class=article]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{decorations.text} ...
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How to eliminate spacing in tikzpicture?

It seems that, when using Tikz, nodes and/or the tikzpicture environment add space around a drawing. An example is shown in the following MWE, where a simple square is drawn three times. First it is ...
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1answer
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Crop image bigger than page from top left to bottom right

I have a small problem when including an image bigger than an A4 page. Normally, I would use this code, but with this I am able to crop it using the bounding box, from 0, 0 to 500,700: %%image start ...
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Should included images have white borders?

I was wondering if the correct way to include an image\graphic in latex is A) crop ALL the white space around the figure and let LaTeX handle the borders/spacing completely; B) leave a white border ...
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How to trim / clip / crop graphics without trial and error?

Often I include graphics with the trim option. Everytime I have to start a trial and error search for the right values. Is it possible to do it more straight forward?
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Equation gets cropped when using .emf in OOoLatex [closed]

I am using LibreOffice with the plugin OOoLatex 4.0 under Windows 7 x64. When I generate equations in PNG format (the images) I have no problem. What happens is that if I select EMF instead, when I ...
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1answer
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\includegraphics clipping and trim is squishing image

Clipping keeps squishing my image. My command is: \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=false,clip=true,trim=90px 0 0 0]{blue.jpg} But I'm getting: Where the original image is: Why can't I clip ...
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2answers
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How to trim after an overpic

I was reading this post and its answers regarding the overpic package so I tried this: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[abs]{overpic} \begin{document} \begin{overpic}[grid,tics=10]{elephant} ...
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4answers
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Crop an inserted image?

I'm inserting an image with a simple: \includegraphics[height=5cm]{filename.png} This results in an image that maintains the aspect ratio, and so gives me something like 6cm width. I only really ...
3
votes
1answer
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Trim, crop, clip not working as expected in XeTeX [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Clipping support in XeTeX Why does the crop feature not work in this example? Secondary question: Is there a good and thorough example somewhere floating around the ...
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0answers
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Crop marks and background image [closed]

I need to put a background image in every page of a document, 12 x 17 cm with crop marks. I used the geometry (to adjust page dimensions), wallpaper (to tile the image, which is bigger) and crop ...
8
votes
1answer
740 views

Include trimmed multipage PDF in XeTeX

I have a multipage PDF manuscript (for example, my_PDF.pdf) that I would like to include in a new document. I would also like to trim/clip off the header and footer from each page of this included ...
4
votes
1answer
108 views

Specifying part of an image to be used in cm

I have a multipage pdf document and would like to include only the upper part (say 3cm down and 2cm right from upper left corner) of a given page. Including part of a single page can be done with ...
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votes
3answers
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Include a single PDF image that is on an otherwise empty page

I am using Dia to generate a vector based diagram. Then, I export it to PDF, because I want to keep the vector format and want to build my complete document to PDF later on. When I include my diagram ...
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2answers
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TikZ: Cropping the Bounding Box

A graphing program I use has support for TikZ output. It generates a \begin{tikzpicture} ... \end{tikzpicture} which I can include in my document. The problem, however, is that it appears to insert a ...
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How to avoid large margins around Matlab plot in PDF

I am preparing image files to be included in a latex document. The image file is generated by printing a Matlab plot. If I print the plot in eps format, the content of the eps file is fully occupied ...