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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Resolution (dpi) for \includeimage pictures and pdflatex
I am trying to create a pdf file with some pictures in it. Those are PNG files with 300dpi.
I use texlive and pdflatex from Debian Squeeze.
A simple code of my document would be:
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PSTricks and LaTeX vs. pdfLaTeX
I'm trying to convert my thesis to pdfLaTeX, as latex + dvips behaves ugly when it comes to break (really long) URLs... I'm using up-to-date TeXLive 2012 on Linux.
The only problem is (so far), that ...
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List of all post original TeX control commands
Is there a well documented list of all control commands added by all post Knuth's Tex like PdfTeX, e-TeX, XeTex, LuaTeX?
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Package animate is great but could it have a better animation compression?
I just tried the animate package to get pdf files with animations and it works great!
However, I noticed that the size of the files generated is 10 times larger that what it could be for the ...
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What are lccode and uccode used for?
In TeX, each of the 256 bytes has an associated \lccode and an \uccode, integers in the range [0,255] which indicate among other things how \lowercase and \uppercase act. There are of course a bunch ...
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How to automate a workflow: several files in 1 master .tex
I have the following situation: I have to produce 60+ files in latex, each one from a .txt file, and with one master file (tex): I mean, I have a 1- or 2-page file per situation (a .txt file, in UTF8 ...
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pdflatex “Required Page Does Not Exist” error with beamerarticle
I have several beamer tex files and need to create a manual (using beamerarticle) that incorporates all of the beamer files (with their notes) as one document. The original basis of the articlebeamer ...
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Why I shouldn't load pdftex option with hyperref?
According to @percusse in this post, I shouldn't load the pdftex option with the hyperref package. Why is it?
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How do I know which ligatures are used in my document?
In order to know which ligatures I might consider disabling, I would like to know which ones are actually used in my document. (Which ligatures are provided by a font is a more general question; I ...
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Loading latex from tex
I decided venture into the very basics of the world of TeX and LaTeX. I have been playing around with tex, pdftex and latex and after paying close attention to the binaries and not being able to ...
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Can include text which conditionally appears depending on PDF viewer? [duplicate]
Can you have a message in a document which only appears when particular PDF viewers are used?
I am using pdflatex to create a PDF document. I am including pdf image which, unfortunately, does not ...
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Plotting floating point data with pgfplots
Is there a binary file structure supported by pgfplots to allow floating point numbers to be loaded and plotted? I understand the time taken to convert floating point data to a text file is small, ...
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How do the various LaTeX compilers (LaTeX, XeLaTeX, PDFLaTeX, ???) differ in terms of use(s), purpose(s), pros and cons? [duplicate]
How do the various LaTeX compilers (LaTeX, XeLaTeX, PDFLaTeX, ???, ConTeXt, fill-in-the-gap) differ?
Is there an authoritive list of all currently available LaTeX-related compilers?
Which are the ...
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Determine required number of pdflatex runs to generate complete document [closed]
Background
Looking to generate a PDF using latexmk. The LaTeX document, which is automatically generated from a web-based application, will include many large images, Tikz graphics, table of ...
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Why does pasting the contents of a tikz file into my main file compile properly but not when using \input
If I place the contents of my tikz picture in my main.tex file it works like a charm using
\usepgfplotslibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize
and subsequently:
pdflatex --enable-shell
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TiKz: TeX capacity exceeded [main memory size=3000000] using \tikzexternalize [duplicate]
When wanting to use pdflatex --enable-shell to run TiKz code externally by:
\usepgfplotslibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize
I get the error:
! Package tikz Error: Sorry, the system call ...
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How to use hyph-utf8 correctly?
I'm using MiKTeX and pdfLaTeX and the package manager tells me that hyph-utf8 is installed and auto-download of packages is activated, too.
But when I do \usepackage{hyph-utf8}, because I hope that ...
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Creating Interactive graphs like Stack exchange reputation tab
I like to prepare an interactive timeline graph (static on load, but dynamic on MouseHover event). Somehow is similar to the Stack-exchange reputation tab for an user. One classic example is here. ...
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How to disappear text or figures by printing?
As you know, the option ocgcolorlinks of the hyperref package disables colors of all links presented in a PDF file by printing it from Adobe Reader (and by compiling with e.g. pdflatex); as a result, ...
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Hyphenation does not work with acro and luatex, but with pdftex
I'm using luatex 0.70.1 together with acro 1.2 and I have the following MWE.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{DNA}{
short=DNA,
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How to use Distiller joboptions in pdftex?
I've always used tex->dvi->ps->pdf workflow for PDF creation. Now I want to switch to direct tex->pdf creation using pdftex engine (lualatex, contex or pdflatex). But I have a strict requirements for ...
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error during pdflatex; geometry-eps-converted-to.pdf' not found
When running pdflatex the following errors occurred:"
! Package pdftex.def Error: File `geometry-eps-converted-to.pdf' not found.
! Package pdftex.def Error: File `force-eps-converted-to.pdf' not ...
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Broken display of 11pt typewriter text in Acrobat Reader [duplicate]
I set some all-caps words in my document as typewriter. Using scrartcl as documentclass, with a default fontsize of 11pt, yields a PDF that looks rather bad in Acrobat Reader. Here is an example:
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How is bytefield inducing differences between Pdf-and Xe-TeX and LuaTeX, and what's the fix?
This is a simplification of 'Please explain a strange interaction between bytefield, unicode-math, and mathtools', which arises from a comment by @JLDiaz (to whom my thanks).
Here is the MWE:
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How can I install just pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX without additional stuff on a mac?
I am trying to install just pdfLaTeX without the rest of the stuff that comes in packages such as MacTeX. All I want to be able to do is convert LaTeX source files into pdf's. I downloaded the pdfTeX ...
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Use pdfLaTeX instead of XeLaTeX [closed]
Is there a way to generate a pdf file of the following LaTeX document by using pdfLaTeX instead of XeLaTeX? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
\documentclass[10pt]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
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hyperref error (\ProcessKeyvalOptions* \relax) [closed]
I am using pdflatex, and when I include the package hyperref, it either returns the error \ProcessKeyvalOptions*
\relax
or \ProcessKeyvalOptions* depending on the order I ...
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How do I set the gamma correction of a full LaTeX document?
I will be holding a presentation with a PDF generated by LaTeX beamer.
Projectors in general need a gamma correction of about 2.0, however, my laptop doesn't enable me to set the gamma correction of ...
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Insert hyphenation point in BibTeX using PDFLaTeX and hyperref
How to tell PDFLaTeX to make hyphenation in place where I want it to be?
I have my document file:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}\usepackage{hyperref}
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compare two latex files with pdflatex.fmt format and not for .cls format
I would like to compare old.tex with new.tex file. I have find latexdiff is good for two latex comparison. But it's supporting only \documentclass{article}. But i have %&update-article.fmt format. ...
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Why is pdflatex automatically loading a ConTeXt package and crashing
If I process the following MWE with pdflatex (TeXLive 2012, Linux)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\def\mymacro#1{#1}
\begin{document}
\pdfinfo{/Title (Some text \textbf{This macro causes ...
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Configure PSTricks on TeXstudio
I'm stuck with PSTricks on TeXstudio,
I'm getting errors like
auto-pst-pdf: . Or turn off auto-pst-pdf.}
My current latex version
Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2013/dev)
Build and ...
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Non-PDF special ignored! — TeXLive / PSTricks / OSX Mac
I'm using TeXLive with OSX/Mac, and building with latexmk. I need three (3) vertical lines spanning the entire page (inside the margins), and one (1) vertical line of numbers 1 through 28 (inside the ...
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I've downloaded and redownloaded MacTeX now whenever I try to run anything I'm getting an error that there is some file “pdflatex” missing [closed]
I'm an absolute noob at LaTeX but I want to learn, so I downloaded exactly the files all the blogs and forums tell you to and haven't done a thing to them, but for some reason I can't compile ...
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How to export high quality charts from excel to import in latex [closed]
I've tried exporting a chart (I have over 50) from excel as .pdf format but the fonts get changed and blurry. It looks good as a .xps file but pdflatex does not recognise this format.
Any thoughts?
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Latex bibiography on Fedora 18 [duplicate]
I'm using texmaker
I'm getting a problem, my citations are not being generated in spite of me putting the citations,
here is my LaTeX file:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
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Wrapped Text Search? [closed]
This is an excerpt from a PDF generated with PDFLaTeX (3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 from TeX Live 2012):
when the disease is still spreading undetected and mitigation
measures are not being made.
When I ...
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SublimeText2 — plugin / keymap for cleanup ('latexmk -c')
The original question (which has since been edited numerous times) was the beginning of my ongoing quest to deal with the LaTeX auxiliary files using TexLive (MacTeX) on OSX (Snow Leopard and Mountain ...
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filename.synctex.gz(busy) problem [closed]
I am currently writing an academic paper in Latex using a journal's provided cls file. Currently, I am facing a weird problem and it could be because I am fairly new to Latex. Whenever I compile ...
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Autobreaking for long numbers [duplicate]
So I have a really really long number (300 digits) that I want latex to show but when I write it it just overflows out of the edge of the paper.
How can I make it automatically break to the next line ...
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Determine height of the line you are in
Is there a way in PDFLaTeX to determine the height of the line you are in? Maybe something similar to PDFsavepos.
In a normal line (i.e. no heading etc.), you might approximate the height by a fixed ...
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Problems With Text Encoding While Cutting [duplicate]
Introduction
I'm learning how to type with LaTeX and I've found that the character encoding is very important to get good results. I find myself copying parts from pdf documents such as problem ...
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Hyper References in Latex
I am using hyperref package for referencing but when i do references it gives me the chapter number instead of the label name and don't know why it is doing this as I am new to lateX. I searched a ...
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Importing PDF in LateX
I have include PDF file in latex but I want to know that is there any method that table of content can automatically be updated after importing the PDF file. I searched a lot but can't find any thing ...
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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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Which version of LaTeX permits more than 16 alphabets?
Sometimes I receive a message:
! LaTeX Error: Too many math alphabets used in version normal.
I know that there is a limit of 16 alphabets at most allowed to one article. However this message ...
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How do I prevent pdflatex from making strange symbols when text is copied? [duplicate]
I use LyX to create my LaTeX files. Recently, when I've used LyX's pdflatex to view my file, the text looks fine, but when I attempt to copy it, I just get strange symbols. If I use LyX's dvipdfm, I ...
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What do these error messages mean? [closed]
My article is
\documentclass[11pt]{aomart}
\usepackage{mdwtab,amsmath,dsfont,amssymb,amsthm,ifthen}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{yfonts}
\usepackage{bbding}
\usepackage{mathtools}
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Could not compile pdf after updated [duplicate]
I have updated my MiKTeX to 2.9. But unfortunately it cannot compile pdf file by either PdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX.
When use XeLaTeX it lag at the begining, and for PdfLaTeX it returns errors:
Command ...
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PDFLaTeX Color Space
Background
Am using TeX Live 2012, pdflatex, and latexmk to produce the document, on Ubuntu Linux.
Problem
In the following image, Okular is shown on the left and Adobe Acrobat Reader is shown on ...
