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PDF preview on other monitor
Is there any way that allows me to have my pdf preview on a different monitor? I know that you can have Adobe open your pdf automatically instead of the built in previewer, but when I use this I ...
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PDF viewer with auto update for WinEdt
Is there a PDF viewer featuring auto update for WinEdt? [WinEdt V 5.5 on WinVista machine]
I find WinEdt very comfortable to work with but the fact that one has to re-open Acrobat after every ...
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2answers
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How to convert a png into pdf using LaTeX?
I have a larger png image: width is 5400 pixels and height is 3850 pixels. I need to transform it into a pdf file in SPA3 size, which means 320mm x 450mm. Is there a way to do it with LaTeX? What I ...
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Is there a specialized Pdf viewer for Latex-Beamer presentations on Linux?
Most of the time when presenting a talk people connect their laptop to a video projector. So they effectively have an extra screen at their disposal. Because of that many Software options for ...
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1answer
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Using ps2pdf colour and fonts change when TikZ picture added on beamer slide
When compiled with LaTeX + dvi2ps + ps2pdf the pdf output of the below MWE shows a strange behaviour:
On the first slide (without TikZ picture) fonts and colours are slightly different from the ones ...
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OCG using latex->dvips
I want to generate a ps file with layers. Ocg.sty does not support ps, so I want to write a simple example by myself to see if its possible.
I took a pdf version from here and tried to change the ...
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how to set the margin of the included pdf with pdflatex [closed]
I have a pdf and I use the plugin "Prinect PDF Assistant: Geometry Control" to split that into 3 equal-width pdfs. If I open each of the seprated pdf, the right margin of the first pdf is ZERO, the ...
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How to configure Latex to open the last page in PDF reader?
I edit big documents, so it is useful for me to open the last page after compilation. Normally, the first page is opened, but by using hyperref, I can configure it to open any page at start.
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PDF that can be scanned faster by a PDF reader [closed]
Searching words with Ctrl+F in common PDF readers takes sometimes very long.
The time does not correlate with the number of pages, or the number of embedded pictures.
What causes slow fulltext ...
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How to insert pdf (as a graphic file) in LaTeX [closed]
I am trying to insert some ready image-pdf files to my LaTeX code.
(I use pdfLaTeX and my distributor is TeXnicCenter.)
But I will get this error:
Package pdftex.def Error: File 'fig1.pdf' not ...
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1answer
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inserting png introduces inputenc error
I want to write an article in Chinese, which needs to insert pictures.
It's fine when I insert pictures as .pdf but the following problem occurs if .png is inserted:
! Package inputenc Error: ...
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“Charset missing or incomplete” error during creating PDF/A by pdfx.sty [closed]
I'm trying to compile my thesis written in LaTeX to PDF/A format as required by our university. I used pdfx package. However, I got some errors when doing the preflight check of the generated PDF ...
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1answer
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“Dynamic” picture in beamer presentation
Is there a way in beamer to have some kind of dynamic picture that will change if the mouse is moved over it or if the button is clicked?
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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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Preserving “\label” in the final PDF to retrieve it with poppler?
Our PDF contains lots of \label{foo} commands, where we jump to from links from within the PDF (using the hyperlinks package)
When I tried to jump to there from within our PDF displaying application, ...
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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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Bifurcating a PDF: choosing a “Plan B” during a talk
I think this is a greenhorn's question, but anyway. It is sometimes difficult to measure time for a talk, according to unknown places and audiences.By this and other reasons I'd like to subtly launch ...
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How to generate PDF/A using XeTeX?
Title says it all. I need to generate PDF/A compliant documents, and I'm using XeTeX. I couldn't find anything about this; here there's only info about pdfLaTeX (using pdfx) and ConTeXt.
Any help is ...
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1answer
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Output to PDF doesn't print out everything
I have the following text in a file:
1 A2:
1.1 General Information
1.1.1 About This Manual
1.1.2 Typographical and Syntax Conventions
1.1.3 Overview of the MySQL Database Management System
1.1.4 ...
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Generating PDF/A-1b compliant documents using pdfx and pdfLaTeX
There are several discussions on the web on how to generate PDF/A-1b compliant documents.
One approach can be found on ...
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Make latexmk and pdfviewer robust against latex errors [closed]
Sometimes latexmk fails because the file was saved premature.
For example the user forgets to close a { bevore he saves the .tex file.
The user has to get latexmk back on the road again and usually ...
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1answer
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PDFs included by XeLaTeX are rotated
When I include an image in pdf format, the image in the file is normal when compiling with pdfLaTeX, but it is rotated counterclockwise 90 degree when using XeLaTeX. The questions are:
Why?
How to ...
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PDFs made with TeXLive won't print from Ubuntu 12.10 from one particular computer [closed]
I'm having a strange problem with one of my two Ubuntu 12.10 installs. One system works perfectly for creating PDFs with Texmaker and printing the PDFs from Document Viewer to networked printers. The ...
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Quickly extracting individual pages from a document
Let's say I have created a 100-page book with the book document class.
What is the quickest way to extract, say, pages 3, 67-70, and 80 from the book into six separate PDF files? Is there any ...
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Store information about which paper tray to use in PDF
Searching here, I found the question Embedding printer settings in pdf - while related, this appears to apply to printer settings for the entire PDF, not for changing printer settings per page.
Our ...
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1answer
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Preview in auctex on debian stable works in dvi mode, but fails on pdf mode
My auctex renders preview images on my debian stable system (6.0.6) if I set it to dvi mode, but it fails if I set auctex to pdf mode.
I assume there is either a mistake in my emacs configuration ...
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1answer
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Texmaker's internal pdf-viewer doesn't work
I have just downloaded TeXmaker ("a free, modern and cross-platform LaTeX editor for linux, macosx and windows systems that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one ...
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1answer
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How to force pdfminorversion globally?
I have a problem with opening PDF files in Acrobat Reader. It comes up with error 131.
I have solved this issue thanks to How to overcome Acrobat Reader error 131 with a pdfLaTeX doc? The solution to ...
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How can i import a 3D SolidWorks Model into my PDF using LaTeX
Acrobat Adobe supports 3D PDFs to be included into LaTeX.
I could use another tool to create a PDF and import that PDF into my build, but i would rather use a package o include a solid works model ...
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Vertical position after navigating to hyperref hypertargets from hyperlinks seems too low
The vertical scroll position after navigating to a \hypertarget from a \hyperlink (described in the hyperref manual) seems to be too low. The scroll position is at the baseline of the \hypertarget, so ...
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Figures (pdf) do not contain any text in the final document [closed]
I am creating some plots in Matlab and saving them as pdf files. When I include these pdf files in latex (i am using MikTex and pdflatex) using \includegraphics, all text from plots (legends, xlabel, ...
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Multiple pdfs with page group included in a single page warning
I updated TexLive to the Ubuntu Quantal version (2012.20120611-4) and I suddenly got this warning:
PDF inclusion: multiple pdfs with page group included in a single page
This is a minimal example ...
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1answer
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On how double precision numbers are encoded in a pdf file
Imagine the following tikz/pgfplots code:
% compile as: lualatex --jobname=figname-f1 figname.tex
\documentclass[10pt]{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.6}
...
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1answer
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Changing the default TeXlipse compiler to PDFLatex
I just installed TeXlipse, and want to make my .tex-file alongside my Java-code (in the same Java-project). Right now, I can compile, but only to .dvi, which I dislike because of the bad viewer.
Is ...
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1answer
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Including same PDF image many times: how to optimize?
I am include (with graphicx’s \includegraphics) the same small PDF vector graphics many many times in my LaTeX file, always at the same size. I then compile my document with pdflatex. While the size ...
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How do I compress PDFs generated by pdflatex? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to create small PDF files for the Internet
The PDF files generated by pdflatex are quite large. If I bring these into Acrobat and save compressed I can typically ...
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1answer
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After a series of nested \includegraphics, some PDF viewers fail to display the image
I'll admit this is a convoluted example, but I like drawing with TikZ and LaTeX and this particular issue has come up for me more than once.
The minimal working example takes a few files, but in a ...
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1answer
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Why can't I set hyperref's pdfinfo from within a group? (Is it a bug?) [closed]
When I run the following code (using hyperref version 2012/09/27 v6.83g), I do not get any errors or warnings, but the metadata I set using pdfinfo doesn't appear. If I uncomment the \@firstofone ...
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3answers
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Need alt text for images in pdf for screen readers
I need the generated PDF to have "alt" text associated with each image so that a screen reader can read the alt text to the visually impaired user. I understand that essentially just including the ...
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1answer
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Fill rectangular area with PDF pattern like graph paper
Short version
I want to fill one or more rectangular areas on a page using a regular pattern. The area should span the page width and stretch vertically to fill remaining space. The pattern should be ...
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1answer
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How to use CMYK-Colors in the whole document
I found out, that my color laser printer prints graphics with gray color in RGB-Representation instead of using black (they are more red then gray). So it seems, that PDFLaTeX is creating ...
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1answer
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MLA Package and Thumbpdf
I'm currently trying to set up a template for MLA format. There's one warning that never goes away, however:
Package thumbpdf Warning: Thumbnail data file `Project*Name.tpt' not found.
Does ...
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2answers
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A pdf without the table of contents [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Adding Table of Contents to existing PDF
I've scanned various articles from different books and put together so there is a one pdf file now. I would like to make a ...
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1answer
586 views
PDF Analyser or repair tool [closed]
I got one PDF that is resultant file after conversion and merging of 17 documents(few documents were already converted to PDF) however resultant file has been converted and merged using activePDF.
...
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1answer
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plain xetex page labels
there are some PDF files that some reader displays the printed page number as the current page number.
I also saw, that this can be achieved in latex with hyperref package.
what I'm look for is ...
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1answer
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Switching color and grayscale mode for \includegraphics
Suppose I have a document that includes a lot of colorful PDFs. Now I'd like to easily switch between "color" version and "greyscale version". I'm aware of \DeclareGraphicsRule, but I think this needs ...
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Hide and reveal segments in PDF output of LaTeX [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Constructing a dynamic PDF
I want to include the solution of a math problem under its statement, but not in full view. I would rather have a page segment that can be ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to distinguish between the soft copy and the hard copy of a pdf?
I have a document with a significant difference between its hard-copy and soft-copy.
Something like some text-boxes which should be printed bold and big in the hard copy but should be hidden (or as ...
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2answers
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PDF compatibility, how to validate? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
PDF conformance tool
I have created PDF-files using XeLaTeX and there has been no problem when I have shared these files with co-workers using Acrobat Reader. But when I ...
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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 ...
