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Font Rendering Artefacts on OS X
Ever since I started using OS X, I have noticed strange rendering artefacts when viewing PDFs I create using pdfTeX, XeTeX, or LuaTeX using Preview.app. These artifacts are not always reproducible, ...
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pdflatex: Handling of fonts when including other pdfs
I was curious about one fact: How will pdflatex deal with fonts embedded in pdfs it includes?
For example: When I include 100 pdf-files (e.g. using \includegraphics) will the generated output file ...
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Make entire document heavier using pdfrender
This is a follow up question to this answer of this question.
The code given in the answer above seems to break for any extensible horizontal bars such as the vinculum, square root bar, and ...
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Mathscr fonts from the mathrsfs package not showing up in PDF [closed]
Long time lurker, first time poster: I am having trouble getting mathscr to work properly. In the past, I have always created PDFs by LaTeX->DVI->PDF, and when I do this, the package has always worked ...
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It is possible to make fonts appear heavier (darker) in pdf output of Latex?
[Edited to include what I have learned from the answers.]
I am using Latex in TeX Live on my Mac, through TeXLive. I compile .pdf files using Pdflatex. I use the default fonts. [These fonts are ...
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How can I change font in pdf forms?
I'm making a pdf form with "hyperref" package:
\usepackage[unicode,pdftex,hidelinks]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{unicode=true,pdfauthor={Author},pdfkeywords={some words},
pdftitle={some ...
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Is LuaLaTeX producing faulty pdfs?
If I compile the following minimal code with LuaLaTeX I seem to get a faulty pdf:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
text
\end{document}
...
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1answer
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Change font to computer modern for includegraphics
Is it possible to change the font to computer modern for an included pdf in LaTeX?
I know its possible to save texified text with Inkscape, but i'm looking for a solution with just LaTeX.
"Example":
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Embedded fonts - Verification: Different tools give different answers [closed]
I want to produce a PDF file that has all fonts embedded. I prefer to avoid the detour of postscript/dvi and use pdflatex instead.
My PDF is basically a publication containing only OmniGraffle figures ...
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1answer
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How to make Times-Roman appear instead of NimbusRomNo9L-Regu in the PDF document properties in LaTeX?
When we generate a simple document in LaTeX using the times package (\usepakage{times} @ 9pt), the resultant PDF will contain NimbusRomNo9L-Regu instead of Times-Roman. (I know, this is because, LaTeX ...
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1answer
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Obfuscation of @ and . in e-mail addresses
I manage style files for an academic journal. A typical article will contain authors' email addresses, which we attempt to obfuscate in order to give some measure of protection against e-mail ...
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1answer
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Remove all Russian symbols from a PDF under Windows
I have a very weird task. There is a compiled PDF document with guidelines on a mathematical subject. It is in Russian, hence it contains a lot of Russian symbols in plain text and a lot of ...
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2answers
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Have XeLaTeX use the default Times font in Ubuntu
Using the Texlive PPA backport to Ubuntu 12.04, I am having trouble getting XeLaTeX to use a standard times font (i.e. one that would not be embedded).
I am using e.g. \setmainfont{times} and ...
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1answer
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Copy Czech characters from PDF with charter font
I wanna be able to copy czech characters from PDF, but for some reason it doesn´t work.
here is my code:
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{charter}
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1answer
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Can't copy-paste from my PDF. Any idea why?
When using copy paste from the PDF generated from my Latex document, the text comes out garbled. What could be causing this?
This is an example of the original text:
At last, and taking the risk ...
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1answer
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Width threshold for space detection
I'm writing this stuff pdf2htmlEX, for each distance between two consecutive letters, I need to check if there should be a space character or not. Especially for PDF files generated by LaTeX, which ...
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1answer
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Which font has been used [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?
Which font ist used in the following document?
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1answer
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Weird behaviour of copying - no space between words
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tgtermes}
\begin{document}
Polska, Rzeczpospolita Polska -- państwo unitarne w Europie Środkowej,
położone ...
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2answers
557 views
find out latex font used in a pdf [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?
Given a pdf created using latex, is it possible to find out the font used?There is maybe a package or method ...
4
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1answer
531 views
text gets slightly bold when adding graphics [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are some pages in my PDF coming out bold?
I have problem with text on the page with a graph, it gets slightly thicker. The text on the next page without graph is ...
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1answer
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What is the problem with characters < and > in PDF display? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Include < and > symbol
Why when I create pdf in texlive with pdflatex, the characters < and > are displayed as inverted ! and ?, respectively. However, when ...
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1answer
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How do I edit PDF files produced by LaTeX in Illustrator? Fonts are not found
When I try to use Adobe Illustrator (CS4) to edit a PDF file produced by LaTeX with several equations in it, Illustrator complains that it can't find the fonts:
The font CMBX10 is missing. Affected ...
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2answers
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Why does my PDF render differently in Windows and Linux?
I'm not trying anything fancy just a plain vanilla
\title{Practical Node.js }
However, in Linux the results look great (Document Viewer 3.2.1)
In windows it looks absolutely terrible (Adobe ...
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3answers
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Strange page numbers in PDF
I generate my pdfs using MikTex 2.9 on Windows 7. On W7 everything looks good.
On my other computer where I have CentOS release 5.2 (Final) installed I experience strange display on page numbers. On ...
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2answers
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How to convert text in a PDF file from fonts/text to outlines?
I have PDF graphic in which I would like to have fonts removed. All other properties of the file should remain (such as size, etc). The output file should be in PDF as well. The text itself should be ...
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0answers
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Darker typeface in pages which include figures [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are some pages in my PDF coming out bold?
In my PDF output, pages with figures on them have a darker typeface than pages without figures. This does not appear when I ...
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2answers
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Turning off font subsetting in pdftex?
I give pdf files to a print-on-demand house (lulu.com) that is very picky about fonts. They want all fonts embedded, no multiply embedded fonts, and no subsetting. Recent versions of pdftex seem to ...
2
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0answers
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PDF Forms: How can I get the Computer Modern font to work with PDF widgets? [closed]
I'm an industrial engineer and I want to create a check list for my team in order to simplify job tasks. My idea is to realize said checklist through fillable PDF forms with javascript support in ...
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2answers
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Using and interpreting pdffonts
For a fairly large (> 100 pages) document that I am writing, I have run pdffonts to check whether the fonts are suitably embedded. The output is as follows:
C:\>pdffonts main.pdf
name ...
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1answer
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Hide “real” font name in PDF
Does anyone know how to change the font name listed in the "Document Properties" window of the PDF reader? For example, instead of A030-Reg-8r, which is an Arial clone, I'd like to have written Arial. ...
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3answers
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How do I swich between Vector and Raster (bitmap) Fonts?
Q. What do you exactly need?
A. I need to compile twice one and the same document in PDFLaTeX using
vector fonts from CM-Super package
standard raster Computer Modern fonts
Q. Why do you need ...
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1answer
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How to make the font a little thicker/bolder?
I typeset a book with some ttf/otf fonts, when printed it seems ok, but it is a little fuzzy when view on screen or on mobile devices. Another problem is one font does not match very well with another ...
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4answers
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Identifying styles in PDF
It happens many times that I take a look at an interestingly typeset document in LaTeX, but to which I don't have the source-code to inspect the style. One such example is this one: ...
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2answers
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How to generate pdf without any Type3 fonts?
For a publisher I have to generate a pdf file which does not contain any Type3 fonts.
Until now I thought that using pdflatex on current LaTeX distributions should be enough to get a pdf file without ...
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3answers
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Replace Type 3 with Type 1 fonts in a PDF
Is there any way to directly manipulate a PDF file with Type 3 embedded fonts (yes, those PDF generated from old tex/dvips and CM fonts), and replace them by decent Type 1 fonts? I know that once ...
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2answers
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Error in arrow symbols.
My LaTeX installation, and many others on the internet seem to be typesetting arrows with thick bits in them, and it looks like a hypen or something has been overlayed over them. Does anyone have a ...
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1answer
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Why aren't there well-hinted Type1 Computer Modern fonts supporting the T1 encoding yet?
Given the popularity of PDF, the pain that is OT1, and the bad on-screen rendering of bitmapped fonts in Adobe's software, I would have expected that someone would have undertaken conversion/extension ...
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3answers
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amsfonts become pixelated in PDF
I'm completely new to LaTeX. I've downloaded LyX 1.6.8 which uses MiKTeX 2.9, so there is probably some markup which is not required. When I create a PDF from this a bitmap font of AMSFonts is used.
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How to create small PDF files for the Internet
I feel that PDF documents when intended to be uploaded to the Internet should be of a minimal final size in bytes. Many strategies exist to create a small document:
Pay attention to the size of the ...
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4answers
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getting the arXiv to produce a pdf with embedded fonts
I've produced a .tex file using the pstricks package for figures and the Times font (via the mathptmx package). When the arXiv compiles this to a .pdf file it doesn't seem to have the necessary fonts ...
