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Shrink margins by reducing paper size
Often we are forced to write our manuscripts with a specific style file or document class, which sometimes has ridiculously large margins. Is there an easy way to work out how to shrink the paper size ...
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Set margins of A3 landscape site with KOMA-Script [closed]
in my A4 document, I inserted few a3 landscape pages for extra large graphics, using the \KOMAOptions-command. Unfortunately, the margins of the resulting A3 page are quite large, and I wonder how to ...
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Printing on A4 - standard classes vs. KOMA-Script classes
As I'm located in Europe the standard paper size is A4. So far I was normally using either \documentclass[a4paper]{article} or even simply \documentclass{article}. Recently I spotted sections (1.1) ...
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Slight discrepancy in left/right margins
This is what I'm using:
\usepackage[paper=a4paper,twoside=true,lmargin=4cm,rmargin=4cm,bindingoffset=0cm]{geometry}
For some reasons, when I print out my document, there seems to be a slight 1-2mm ...
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Printing Checks with Latex [closed]
This is my first time working with Latex and I'm using Texmaker to create it in. I was hoping to find some GUI Editing tool that kind of let me drag and drop things where I wanted them but couldn't ...
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Arithmetic in arguments to the geometry package
I'd like to use the geometry package to auto-crop the output of my LaTeX (so that it looks bigger on-screen as I'm editing). I have found a way to remove the margins completely and brutally:
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How can I use the layout and twoside options of the geometry package?
When I use the geometry package (2010/09/12 v5.6) for a twoside document with one paper size (e.g. A4) and another layout size (e.g. A5), I had expected that I could print a page, turn the paper, ...
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Default margins for geometry package
I want to explicitly specify sizes of my document. For this purposes I use geometry package. I do the following (I found the solution here):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=2394pt, ...
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Margins too wide using a5paper Koma-Script option
This is my preamble:
\documentclass[a5paper, DIV=classic, 12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage{xltxtra,fontspec,graphicx,xunicode,color,lettrine}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text, Ligatures={Rare}, ...
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Landscape, A3/A4 paper with XeTeX
With pdflatex, it seems easy to get a landscape document, on A3 paper. One only needs to add [landscape,a3paper] or [landscape,a4paper] to the document class options. With xelatex, however, these ...
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Rules of thumb for size of binding correction (BCOR)
I was searching for this for a while now and I keep getting referred to an article about binding correction (probably in german) that seems to be offline.
Another tip was to measure the horizontal ...
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What do hscale and vscale in the geometry package mean?
What are hscale and vscale?
How can I use them?
If I use geometry package like the code below, what will happen to the total body?
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{hscale = 0.6, vscale = 0.5}
I ...
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How to remove 1 inch paddings without using \hoffset and \voffset?
I usually do the following to remove 1 inch padding.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\paperwidth=72.27pt
\paperheight=72.27pt
\voffset=-72.27pt
\hoffset=-72.27pt
\parindent=0sp
...
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How to express 72.27pt in terms of \oddsidemargin, \textwidth, … that are subtracted from \paperwidth?
By default, LaTeX appends one inch (72.27pt) to the left (and top) of document.
Here I want to prove it as follows. But I missed some other page layout macros to subtract from \paperwidth.
% the ...
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How to define a custom PDF page size without margins and header/footer? KOMAscript
I want to create a PDF file with pdflatex which
has a custom page size: \pdfpagewidth=680.6pt \pdfpageheight=441.0pt and
which will be used completely for typesetting (no margins, no header or ...
3
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Page placement using blowup package
I am trying to rescale a book which has the dimensions 152x229 mm set with the geometry package into 165x242mm using the blowup package. After some messing around I have managed to get it to rescale ...
