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Print LaTeX in 8.5x11 inch format
Linux defaults to A4 paper size rather than letter. The only answer I found online was to run pdflatex with the -t flag.
$ pdflatex -t letter myfile.tex
but I get the error:
warning: Could not ...
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CMYK poster example: fitting pdf page size to (bitmap) image size?
(This could be a question going a bit out from pure LaTeX zone - if so, feel free to migrate)
Let's assume I'd want to make an poster, for now A4 in size. Let's say I've made this poster in inkscape, ...
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pdflatex: fit-page-to-contents or scale-contents-to-fit-page
I have a problem which can be solved one of two ways:
Typeset a given chunk of TeX in an "infinitely wide" space, then scale the result so that its width is the width of the page.
Typeset a given ...
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Resize paper to mbox
Is it possible to define a function where the page is resized to exactly the dimension of an mbox? For example, I want to do something like the following:
\documentclass{report}
\thispagestyle{empty}
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What's the absolute largest paper size permissible with pdflatex?
I've had occasion to typeset extraordinarily large matrices, which I didn't seriously expect anyone to expect in detail (without a computer) or print, but I needed it to be obvious that they were ...
