{graphics} is about inclusion of external graphic files in your document. For questions about vector graphics created programmatically inside a (La)TeX document, use {diagrams} instead, or preferably the tag for specific packages like {tikz-pgf} or {pstricks}.
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\usepackage[turkish]{babel} and \includegraphics inconcistency
Here is my document :
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
% must-have packages
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % This package will support Turkish chars
% must-have packages
...
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How to put image in table of contents?
My Question is similar to question which has not been answered. How can i put image in index page to improve look and feel.
How to generate index page for report?
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1answer
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PDF file containing 3D object is not included correctly with \includegraphics
I have a PDF file, containing a 3D object in PRC format. I try to include this into a LaTeX document to be compiled with pdflatex, with the simple source below:
\documentclass{minimal}
...
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What is the best way of arranging multiple minipages on a page?
I have been trying to use mini-pages to produce the equivalent of Office text-boxes. The idea is to have panels of different sizes on a page such as 4 equal sized or one wide followed by two long ...
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How to compile a document with EPS images using TeXnicCenter?
I have all my input images in EPS format. I am using TeXnicCenter. When I use latex->dvi output profile, all of the EPS images show up fine. However when I want to take the final output by using ...
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LaTeX/Math jokes [closed]
Lighten up a bit guys. How about the following
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
If~~$\displaystyle\lim_{x\rightarrow8}\frac{1}{x{-}8}=\infty$
...
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A way to draw a lab apparatus
Are there any packages that would make a simple lab apparatus easy to draw?
e.g. a spectrometer connected to a computer and has a wire before a light emitting tube, the wire also being connected to ...
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1answer
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How to get thumbnails in a list of figures?
To be honest, I'm not sure if I really want this because I can't imagine how exactly it would look. But maybe someone is interested in this, too, or even has already written code to achieve this: it ...
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LaTeX for Graph Theory?
What should I use to make Graphs for Graph Theory in LaTeX?
I have seen a lot of stuff about tkz (specifically tkz-berge), but I'm running Ubuntu and there is no package for it, that I can tell. ...
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3answers
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LaTeX Photo With Rounded Corners
I have a photograph that I'm loading into my LaTeX document.
I'd like the photograph to have rounded corners and no visible border.
I'd prefer not to edit the original photograph.
Any thoughts on ...
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Submitting a journal article as a single tex file
Although many academic journals readily accept submissions in some format of TeX, indeed some enlightened ones insist on it, it is rare that one can simply send exactly the same document that one has ...
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Image on full slide in beamer package
I would like to make a slide of only one image without any borders or any other beamer specific element.
I tried :
\begin{frame}[plain]
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In a beamer slide highlight a region of an image with a rectangle overlay
I have a slide with a figure in it. I want to draw a rounded corner rectangle overtop part of a figure to highlight that section. Bonus points if you can draw two rounded rectangles as overlays ...
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3answers
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Drawing a 3D cone
I want to create some thing like this ,
but instead of a box, I use another object (a dog silhouette). Here is what I have so far
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{scope}[scale=0.25, xshift=70, ...
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What useful web services are out there?
Looking at this question, I wonder what good and useful web services are out there. For example the LaTeX symbol classifier looks interesting. You can draw a symbol with your mouse and get back the ...
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Automatically scale big and small graphics for beamer presentations
For the next few semesters I'll be making a lot of beamer presentations with a lot slides that are just a frame title and a figure. I am trying to make a command to make a lot faster to code and ...
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Understanding minipages - aligning at top
I would like to be able to align two minipage at the top, without worrying about what is in the minipage. I am aware of the optional [t] parameter, but still have some confusion as to how this all ...
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2answers
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Coloring a black and white PDF graphic
I have a graphic in PDF format (originally converted from an SVG) that is monochromatic (black on white). Is it possible using TikZ or PSTricks but not (Illustrator or Inkscape) to include this image ...
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What do people use for modifying figures?
I usually create figures for my articles in Matlab: various plots of numerical and analytical solutions. One thing that I don't like about it is that the font is different in the figure and in the ...
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Thumbnails of other frames in beamer
I would like to make a presentation with beamer, and have a few frames (at the start or the end) containing thumbnails of the other frames, hyperlinked to them, with something like 4x3 or 5x4 ...
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3answers
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Problem with a very heavy EPS image - scatter plot too heavy as EPS
Using Stata, I produced a scatter plot of some variables. I saved the image as an EPS file. There are around a 1000 dots in the scatter plot - and this makes the EPS file to be 26MB. I need to use ...
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1answer
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Zooming images out to specific locations in beamer
I want to:
Show an image full width
On click, make a small sized image placed at a particular location starting from top left and show another image full width
Repeat the process till all four ...
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2answers
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Clipping a figure to content
Is it possible to clip a figure inserted with \includegraphics to contents? That is, remove all surrounding whitespace.
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1answer
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Clipping support in XeTeX
In pdflatex I'm used to clip graphics using something like this:
\includegraphics[trim=14mm 0mm 14mm 0mm,clip,width=1.2cm]{image.jpg}
When I attempt this in XeLaTeX, no clipping occurs and I get a ...
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2answers
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Scale image to page width?
I use
\inclugraphics[scale=TRYING TO GUESS THE NUMBER FOR PAGE WIDTH]{...}
but I find this errorsome, is there some ready flag to set the image to page width? I usually use PNG and JPG photos.
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3answers
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Includegraphics maximum width
With \includegraphics I can give the width of the resulting image (which would be scaled).
How can I give a maximum width of the image? That is, if the original is smaller than X, I'd like to keep ...
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How to use figure inside a minipage?
I'm trying to include an image, and keep it centered, and prevent from wrapping from the next page. The following code works for that:
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{center}
Caption ...
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votes
3answers
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How to export matlab figures to (pdf) LaTeX?
I am writing a student thesis in LaTeX and need to import several figures created in Matlab. I found some programs to do this task:
matfig2pgf
matlab2tikz
fig2texPS
The problem is that using one ...
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2answers
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Text wrap with shapepar (insert image between text)
How do insert image between text and text wrap with shapepar or other package?
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5answers
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Inserting figures using loops
I have a set of pictures in my working directory and I want to make a PDF report using these images. I want to include all of them, but the number of the pictures changes in each case. I would like to ...
8
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2answers
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A3 pages within A4 doc
I'm writing my thesis and I'd like to insert A3 pages within my A4 document.
Is it possible to place figures with captions (as normal) on those A3?
I'm able to include full PDF pages which are A3 by ...
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1answer
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TikZ to non-PDF
How do I tell TikZ to output to a standalone image file? Like JPG, PNG, etc?
Yes, there is a way to output it to PDF, then do a snapshot. But this is for mathematical-visual comparisons, and I need ...
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1answer
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Alignment and scaling of nested subfigures
Update: Read this first
I originally asked this question to find out how I would show a large image with magnified portions of the same image next to it. I was doing this by manually cropping copies ...
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Competition time: Design an error page!
Or a 404 or the "captcha" image.
To go with our amazing new design, we need some amazing pictures to go on the error page, the 404 page, and the captcha page. They should have a lighthearted theme, ...
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Packages: graphics vs graphicx
Different websites suggest using one of those two packages.
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{graphics}
What are differences between them? Which is better?
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tabular vertical alignment to top?
I'm trying to create a simple tabular with two cells of text and two images below them like so:
\begin{tabular}[h]{ c | c}
\emph{Normal} & \emph{Cone} \\
...
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What is the advantage of using \includegraphics instead of \pgfimage for ordinary image inclusion?
The TikZ & PGF manual says that ‘LaTeX’s \includegraphics is designed better than pgf’s image mechanism’ and that ‘LaTeX users are encouraged to use \includegraphics to include images.’ But is ...
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How to automatically draw a graph in LaTeX
clarification: when I say "graph", I mean the computer science term.
I want to draw a full binary tree of h height. It means that there's one root with two sons, each son has two sons and so forth.
...
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Vertical alignment of inline images
Images appearing inline aren't always ideally placed relative to the baseline and risers of the text itself, so I frequently find myself doing manual adjustment, by eye, using \raisebox{}{} with a ...
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How to insert code and graphic in textbox
I want to put a graphic and a little linux bash code in a textbox, like the picture blow...
with the follow in problem:
all in a textbox with yellow backgroud
left part is a graphic (a finger)...
...
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Best practice for control flow charts
I wanted to plot a flow chart graph which looks similar to this diagram:
that comes from this source.
Which package would be best for that?
I don't want to use pstricks
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4answers
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Included png appears too big in PDF
I'm a beginner with LaTex and writing an article in it (letter-sized). WinEDT and MikTeX (versions seen in the log).
I have a PNG chart (obtained from R/ggplot2) which is 471 x 335 pixels and which ...
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How to add a gif file to my LaTeX file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Convert gif image to png on the fly
I have an image file -- a gif file, which is the graph of a function.
How do I add it to a LaTeX file? Will it come out OK in the ...
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2answers
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4 images on a frame appearing each a a time - fine tuning beamer
I have a figure which consists of 4 plots, Full figure here, and I want to have them appearing one by-one in the presentation (from left to right, top to bottom). I managed to do this by including ...
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4answers
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can't \includegraphics eps files anymore with xelatex (used to work fine)
I've just noticed that (most likely caused by upgrading to opensuse 11.3 with TexLive 2009) whenever I try to \includegraphics{filename.eps} an eps file, I get the error:
Unable to load picture or ...
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Using LaTeX to draw time series graphs and histograms
I have some graphs I drew in maple, some simple line plots and histograms. Now I'd like to redraw these graphs in LaTeX, so I can do fancy stuff in beamer like have one histogram appear, and then ...
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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 ...
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1answer
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Turning off and on images in figures
Is it possible to prevent the contents of a figure from being rendered? I have a large book document, and to speed up compiling while working on a draft, I would like to have some way of ignoring the ...
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1answer
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How can I create a chapter with graphics only divided into different sections?
I'm trying to create a chapter with pictures only, but keep running into troubles. The chapter is an appendix, where only some graphics should be displayed, placed in different sections. I don't need ...
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1answer
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How to know the number of pages in a PDF file?
I use graphicx to include pages of a PDF file. I want to know in LaTeX how many pages are in the file. How to do this?
