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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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Include a paper in a dissertation
I'm start writing my dissertation and I want to include two papers that I wrote in the appendix. I want them to appear in the original format that they were written (amsart). I'm using a template ...
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Cannot copy text from the simplest PDF file?
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
We define multiplication by
$$v_1x = 0,\quad v_2x = v_1,\quad v_1y = -v_1,\quad v_2y = v_1$$
\end{document}
which looks ...
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problem with including pdf using pdfpages
I am trying to use \includepdf with about 20 different PDFs. The first 19 have worked fine, but the last one which can be found below
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How to create individual chapter PDFs
My document structure has
one file with preamble (i.e. MainTex)
and around 75 individual .tex files (i.e. Chapter_01, Chapter_02, ..., Chapter_75) representing each chapter.
I am using \include ...
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Perfect Print and Screen Quality
I'm going to finish my thesis which leads me to the wish of polishing my document at it's best.
Currently I'm running in some minor problems with my black values and I observed some table blurring ...
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Cannot edit my document in Adobe Reader
I am typing and creating a tex file using Latexila (which I think is compiling via pdftex) and am asking a few friends to help edit this doc. These friends, however, are not conversant with tex, and ...
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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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How to include a pdf image
All I am trying to include a pdf image in my tex file, but when I compiled the tex file, the console pop up the following error msg:
! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in ...
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LyX numbering tables wrong in PDF [closed]
I've got a remarkable problem in LyX. In the LyX document all the tables are numbered correctly. Although when I convert my document to a pdf file, the numbers are incorrect.
Lyx: table 3.1 => ...
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Embedding a flv (or mp4) video using pdfTeX (plain TeX only)
I am attempting to find out how to embed a flv video in a pdf file created using plain TeX and pdfTeX. I was successful at manually (via Adobe Acrobat's menu: Tools->Multimedia->Video Tool) embedding ...
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Beamer notes on secondary screen doesn't work
I am writing a presentation for at introduction to latex and think it would be nice to show how I have my presentation-notes on my laptop screen (Macbook Air) using Beamer.
But it just won't work.
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Convert TGA to PDF automatically
For my latex document, I have image files in tga format that I'd like to include. I want to convert them into pdf so latex can scale them without loose of precision.
By now, I just did this with ...
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Phantom spaces in listings (pdf)
I have a problem with SQL code in a PDF document. For code representation I'm using the listings package. Everything works perfect until I copy-paste that code from the created PDF document. I get ...
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border line disappeared after convert dvi to pdf
all, I have two graphs, which are draw using visio using black lines. Now the problem is whenever I generate dvi file (I am using subfigure), these two graphs look fine, but when I convert it to pdf ...
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hyperref: can I control how to display the PDF?
I use the method described in this link for getting hyperlinks from different PDF files:
Can you have hyperlinks to locations in different PDFs?
I would like to remain with two open PDF files, ...
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Move-around box in PDF display
I tried using the fancytooltips package and like it a lot. One thing that I could imagine would be nice is to have the entry showing up as a movable box instead of just a tooltip. (Sometimes the ...
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pdfTex, hyperref: jumps beetwen two pdf files [duplicate]
I use hyperref package and pdftex to generate a PDF file.
I have file_A.pdf and file_B.pdf.
I will assign a destination point in a file_B.pdf (not at first page) and use this destination to make ...
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Comparing the output of two PDFs
Sometimes I want to compare the results of two different settings to see which gives better results. Such settings can result in small changes in the location of words and other elements of the ...
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pdf vs dvi vs postscript
I have a few questions regarding these three:
What is the difference between those three outputs?
Does it make any difference in how my code is processed or just how it
is displayed? What's ...
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TeXnicCenter Crashes on BUILD and VIEW OUTPUT [closed]
This is in reference to previous question that I have posted and dint get it resolved.
PROBLEM : BUILD CURRENT FILE on TXC works Fine. BUILD AND VIEW OUTPUT or VIEW OUTPUT makes TXC to open sumatra ...
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free plagiate finder software online or offline with local library? [closed]
I am not sure if this is the right stack page to post this question to.
Since i assume here are many scientific writers i posted the question here.
I am searching for a free plagiarism finder ...
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Latex does not publish half or some letters of some words [closed]
I have a LaTeX document and after compiling the document, some specific words are missing 2-3 letters in the whole pdf file. There is no error message during the compilation and yet this happens.
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Paper size with geometry in memoir: LaTeX vs PDFLaTeX
I have been searching for an answer to my problem, but my search did not yield any topics with the same problem, so hereby my question:
I have created a document with the memoir package. The stocksize ...
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texmaker 4.0.1 for OS X Pdf Viewer does not work
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6gedrfsgts9d22z/problem.png
with "external viewer" it works fine. But there is a problem with the pdf viewer that it shows the text too wide, there is something wrong with ...
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Compiling a code in TeXnicCenter produces an empty PDF without any warning and error
When I compile a code in TeXnicCenter, it builds a pdf without my modifications, giving: 0 errors 0 warnings 0 pages.
I'm not an expert but I've tried everything to make it work without reach any ...
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IEEEtran Export to PDF version 5 or above
I'm writing a paper for an IEEE conference and am checking the PDF with PDFExpress. One of the errors that I'm getting is that the PDF version of my paper is under 5:
I opened the file in Adobe ...
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Change the way XeTeX sees a string before running/building PDF
For some reason, I'm really struggling to articulate my question, so let me apologise in advance. I may not be approaching this from the right angle.
I'm working in XeTeX (and it's far too late to ...
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Matching Brackets in TeX output
Is there any ways or features to make pdf-files using one of TeX systems so that when I move the cursor to one of brackets (either open or closed brackets) in pdf, then the bracket and the other ...
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Ghostscript 9.07: Error: A pdfmark destination … points beyond the last page
I use gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=$2 -dLastPage=$3 -sOUTPUTFILE=$4 $1 in a script to extract pages from a pdf file with Ghostscript 9.07. I obtain a lot of warnings (as in ...
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Showing the bibliographic entry in a popup when you hover over the citation key
I thought it would be useful to have bibliographic entries displayed as a tooltip so readers are not interrupted by following hyperlinks or trying to find the Bibliography, so I created the following ...
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Merge PDFs, fix page numbering and compress
Say there is a book that has been split into several PDFs. I want to do two things:
Merge the PDFs and reduce the size of the resulting PDF.
Fix the page numbering.
(1) can be done with pdftk or ...
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Help defining PDF syntax with listings package
I'm trying to make a pdf language definition for the listings package, but I can't get the string definition to work correctly. This is what I have defined:
\lstdefinelanguage{pdf}{
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Are % comments passed on to the PDF-file upon *.tex compilation? [duplicate]
Are % comments passed on to the PDF-file upon *.tex compilation? Can they be found/recovered in the PDF code?
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\title{\textbf{Hello World !}}
\usepackage{lipsum}
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LaTeX accessibility
Does anyone know of any LaTeX modules that makes the pdf output generated by pdflatex Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)/Seciton 508 compliant?
Specifics:
With regard to math. One simple ...
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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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How to create 4-up pdfs [without pdfnup, pdfpages]?
I use a standard KOMA-script class for creating slides [slides.tex]. I am wondering if there is a LaTeX package with an option to specify how the output looks like. I would like to create a 4-up .pdf ...
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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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Adding metadata using pdfx fails
I'd like to generate a PDF/A-compliant document. Thus I need to embed the metadata using XMP but somehow the following MWE doesn't work.
\RequirePackage{pdf14}
\documentclass{article}
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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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hyperlink to an embeded pdf [closed]
I found a way to embed a PDF and provide a hyperlink to it using hypgotoe. So, this is similar to what I am currently doing
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{embedfile}
\usepackage{hypgotoe}
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Publishing Courseware on the Web
I have been teaching online courses for a number of years, using a home-grown system of html slides + narrative that works well for students using desktop workstations. That model is fading rapidly, ...
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Problem with sumatra+beamer [closed]
I installed SumatraPDF and followed the instructions in the tutorial to set up a new profile in TeXnicCenter - however for some reason the pdf file is locked and when I try to compile it for the ...
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Multi-line Comment Boxes in Interactive PDFs with LaTeX
I was looking to add a box to a pdf file in LaTeX. I tried to use TextField, but that only allows an input on one line. Is there a good command to make an box of more than one line and can be edited ...
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How to make ebook-friendly formula heavy documents?
Tablets and ebook readers can be very useful if you have to read a lot of scientific texts and papers, and don't want to print them all out. However, it can sometimes be really annoying, especially if ...
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Included PDF gets corrupted after Acrobat’s color conversion
I found a strange error … I’m typesetting a musical score with Sibelius 7. And to add some text and notes I use LaTeX (i.e. xelatex but the error is the same with pdflatex). To get a complete PDF of ...
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Can zooming in PDFs recover original image size?
Say I create an image of 100x100 pixels in an area of 1x1 inch in my article.
Lets say, when viewing the pdf at 100% magnification on my monitor, this 1x1 inch area covers 50x50 screen pixels.
If I ...
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pgfplots — Patterns are not displaying correctly in PDF version 1.4 [closed]
I am using this method to plot a pattern in-between two curves. If I save the file as PDF version 1.5 everything looks great. Unfortunately the journal that I am submitting the paper to requires PDF ...
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PDF bookmarks according to figure titles or labels
I have dozens of figures that I am going to include in one PDF file using the following code combination:
% allpdfs.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
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Easy way to calculate word-count in Latex for Mac? [duplicate]
I am using TexShop and was wondering if there is an easy way to find the wordcount in a document ?
The way I do it now is copy and paste the PDF document into Word to calculate the word count. Is ...
