pdfTeX is an extension of TeX which is capable of directly generating PDF output. Use this tag if your question is about pdf(La)TeX specific problems and is not related to standard (La)TeX.
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No file %.nls while using nomencl
I would like to use nomencl. I have the following code:
\usepackage{nomencl}
\makenomenclature
\nomenlature{test}{This is a test}
\printnomenclature
\makeindex My_file.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o ...
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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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Difference with standalone and preview?
I have a table, but for cleanliness (I'll use the figure in a paper and in talks), I'd like to compile to a single PDF and include it with includegraphics instead of having the table rendered within ...
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Missing $ inserted - did I make something wrong? [duplicate]
Im writing a paper using Latex and I get repeatedly this "! Missing $ inserted. $ l.92 ?" error. Its only in two passages and I don't see any obvious mistake I made. The code is:
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Problems with installation of MinionPro [closed]
I am trying run my .tex-file after I installed MinionPro in TeXLive, but the following problem appears:
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file MinionPro-Bold.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file
for reading
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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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pgfplots with gnuplot
I got a problem with latex implementing a gnuplot code. I use PdfLatex with argument "--enable-write18".
The following code should works with the first commented-out line %plot 'data.dat' u 1:2;, but ...
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Anything better than jLatexMath for generating latex in image form (preferrably png)
Can anyone suggest me a .jar to be used for converting LaTeX into images (preferrably png format)?
I found that JLatexMath serves the purpose to some extent but it can only output most of the latex ...
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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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Autocompile LaTeX doc when updated in Windows (via dropbox, in this case)
Goal: I'd like to be able to have a script running on my Windows computer that autogenerates the PDF of my LaTeX doc whenever the main .tex doc gets updated.
Use case is I am editing the .tex file ...
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Conflict between ifxetex and ucs under pdflatex/xelatex - why?
I use TexLive 2012 (on Mac) and the following minimal example does not work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifxetex}
\usepackage[mathletters]{ucs} % Need newline here!
\ifxetex
\else
\fi
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Error using Minted for syntax highlighting in custom document class
I am writing Master thesis in LaTeX and want to use minted package for source code syntax highlighting. I have installed it successfully and minimal example from minted documentation works just fine.
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How to divide document for black and color printing?
Most of my document is black text, but there is a color figure here and there. I would like to print the text on a black and white printer, and the figures on a color printer. I know i could just ...
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LaTeX compiles but not pdfLaTeX [duplicate]
I have a "project", which has a main.tex in Main folder, and in Main folder, there are subfolders called tex and fig. In fig folder, there is a logo.eps file. In tex folder, there is a content.tex ...
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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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Is is possible to installing only required LaTex tool “pdflatex” in Ubuntu?
I do not know the dependencies b/w the tools provided by the Latex bulky lib.A suggested command to install LaTex tools on Ubuntu is:
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
Its full installation requires ...
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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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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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what's the best solution to split a .tex file into separate compiled files? [duplicate]
I have a .tex file that includes several chapters (all through the \input command). I would like to run pdflatex in one command such that it saves each chapter into a separate PDF file, while ...
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Vim shortcut to pdflatex a specific tex file
I'm working on a document that is structured as follows:
/Document/
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|--Chapter1/chap1.tex
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|--Chapter2/chap2.tex
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|--Chapter3/chap3.tex
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\--main.tex
where the ...
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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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Why do LaTeX and pdflatex produce different margins?
I am working with TeXStudio on Windows. When I use latex + dvips + ps2pdf and pdflatex the margins in the resulting PDF file are different.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a way to avoid ...
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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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Some errors with a little document
I have some errors with my paper in LaTeX, and I don't understand how to fix the problems :
The first is :
pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the sa
me identifier (name{page.1}) has been ...
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Export Beamer doc to 2 slides per page
I'm a total LaTeX/beamer newbie looking for a way to export a slide deck I created into a sort of "book" form. I tried "handout" but that didn't seem to be what I'm looking for.
Basically, I want to ...
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TeXLive 2011: pdfLaTeX does not convert eps to pdf for eps files in subdirectories
As from 2010, TexLive has been converting .eps files directly to pdf file if the compilation is done with PDFLaTeX. Thus a file named
coilsans.eps
will be automatically be converted to a file named
...
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Error with ASCII characters [closed]
I have an apostrophe as in educator's, which is displayed as eductaor's and prevents TeX from generating a pdf.
I have used this as well:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
how can I fix that?
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How to run LaTeX and lilypond-book in one command?
I was wondering if there was any command which would let me create a PDF from a LyTeX source in one step. Currently, I am first executing lilypond-book:
lilypond-book --latex-program=pdflatex --pdf ...
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“shell escape” is not enabled - chemscheme/chemstyle
I am having issues with -shell-escape. I do not know really what this is, and how to apply it. Furthermore, I have read elsewhere that I is possibly dangerous to summon this command. Any help would be ...
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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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Extracting characters from the new libertine (with pdflatex)
The issue: I need to access e.g. libertine's delta glyph in pdflatex.
This question notes that the \libertineGlyph command is no longer provided by the latest version of the libertine package. It ...
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Strange PDF error in IEEEtran twocolumn
I am having an issue to compile a document. It gives the following error:
pdfTeX error (ext4): \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink.
I am using IEEEtran class, in ...
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libertineGlyph and pdflatex [duplicate]
This is a follow-up question to How to get Wikipedia W from Linux Libertine?
How can \libertineGlyph{W.alt} set with pdflatex? This MWE works fine
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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How to black out a figure for confidential reasons?
I have a document, that contains critical parts. Now two documents should be generated. One version that is "balcked out" and one version that is all readable.
For pure text I found some hints using ...
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Cannot compile using the newpx package
As basic as:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{newpxtext}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}
does not compile. It issues an error:
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ...
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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 do I customize a WikiPublisher tex file?
I've been using WikiPublisher (an addon for pmwiki) with quite a bit of success. Lately though, I have been wanting to customize the tex file that is used to generate the final pdf file from a ...
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Unable to set Times New Roman as the font type [closed]
I am unable to set the font as Times New Roman. I am using TeXWorks in Linux Mint. I am a beginner, so unable to figure this out. Help me.
This didn't work
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times ...
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How does one insert a URL correctly?
I'd like to insert a URL. Is there a "correct" way of doing that? If so, is there a way to turn it into a link inside the final pdf generated with pdfTeX?
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Is it possible to embed a YouTube video using LaTeX?
I'd like to embed a YouTube video inside a PDF generated by LaTeX, now I know it is possible to embed videos using the movie15 package but that includes the video in the PDF.
I was hoping there would ...
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How to automatically add a dereferencing tooltip to eqrefs, footnotes etc.? [duplicate]
Similar to what Wikipedia does when you hover over reference links
I would like the internal links placed by hyperref to automatically have tooltips containing the contents linked to, be that a ...
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pdfoutput=1 can't replace pdflatex for auto-pst-pdf
It is frequently mentioned that latex and pdflatex are the same program invoked with different defaults for the variable \pdfoutput (0 in the former, 1 in the latter case); see What is the practical ...
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Missing Font in Apache
I have a tex file that compiles from the command line when I run pdflatex. However, when I run the same command from PHP/Apache, I get a fatal error. I also get a file called "missfonts.log" produced, ...
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How to make the math font slightly thicker?
I'd like to use TeX Gyre Schola as my text font and the default LaTeX font for the math mode. (Side question: is the default font Latin Modern in math mode or another font?)
MWE:
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Why can't pdflatex print EPS figures?
The images in my paper are in EPS format. If I execute pdflatex to get a PDF version of my paper, the figures won't appear. I have to typeset using the latex command, and then convert the DVI file to ...
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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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Compiling CircuiTikZ with -shell-escape (pdflatex)
I'm trying to use both CircuiTikZ and pgfplots. In order not to overflow LaTeX memory, I use the TikZ externalize library with -shell-escape command in pdfLaTeX. It compiles the pgfplots nicely, but ...
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Adding a signature on an online job application
Nowadays many job applications are sent in digital form as PDF. We use of course LaTeX to create such. Usually you add a cover letter to your CV and credentials. If you sent this as print-out by ...
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Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX
Until now, I have been compiling my LaTeX documents with pdfLaTeX. My standard document preamble includes the "usual suspects" for non-English speakers (inputenc, fontenc, babel) and a bunch of other ...
