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pdfTeX is an extension of TeX which is capable of directly generating PDF output. Use this tag if the used engine – pdftex/pdflatex – is significant to your question.

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Texstudio: Put auxiliary files in a separate folder then PDFs

I'm having a issue which is already been discussed here but apparently not with the solution I would like: I'm using TexStudio and, while compiling, I would like to put auxiliary files in a different ...
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Can I remove background/page colour in LaTeX?

Perhaps this is a bit odd, but I found this question here about changing the page colour, and this thing is easy, but I am curious about removing the colour, altogether, from a page. In essence, ...
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Embedded videos in Latex beamer presentation

Other people have asked this question but the posts are either 10+ years old (i.e., completely obsolete) or no relevant/useable answer. I need to embed a small video (no sound) in a Latex beamer ...
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What TeX-related information to include in colophon?

In the colophon a book, I want to include some information acknowledging the use of TeX and related software. It tentatively includes the following: Composed by the author using the \LaTeX2e{} ...
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Any way to use academicons with pdfLaTeX?

From what I gather here, the author mentions: The academicons package provides access in (La)TeX to 76 high quality icons of online academic profiles included in the free Academicons font. This ...
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While running pdflatex withing TexStudio92,12,22 under MikTex), I get "pdflatex: security risk: running with elevated privileges" error

While running pdflatex within TexStudio (2,12,22 under MikTex), I get "pdflatex: security risk: running with elevated privileges" error. My OS is win7.
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Output encoding change with new LaTeX 2020/02/02

The following test file outputs OT1 encoded fonts for French when compiled with pdfLaTeX <2020-02-02> and T1 encoded fonts (as expected) when compiled with pdfLaTeX <2019-10-01> Patch Level 3. ...
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Compiling error when updated to last version of LaTeX

This error appear when trying to build the document: ! Undefined control sequence. l.20 \IFTEX@let {vtexdvi}{false} How can I work around this problem ?
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Cannot increase save_size beyond 79999

I have two identical ThinkPad laptops, an old one under Windows 7 with 8Gb RAM and a new one under Windows 10 with 16Gb RAM. I am transitioning between the old one and the new one. I am using the same ...
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how to set font style to Constantia in tex

I am using 'book' documentclass in tex (using texstudio over windows10) and would like to set the font-style to "Constantia" (as available in microsoft word). Can anyone please let me know how can I ...
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Hyphenation for transliterated Greek

Is there a hyphenation package available for Greek text transliterated into the Roman alphabet? I'm creating a document that contains many (i.e. several hundred) Greek place names, which are ...
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Missing text when using dvisvgm in conjunction with an eps file

When running dvisvgm to convert a dvi file to svg I'm loosing the text information which is part of the eps file. When running pdflatex the output is correct. \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{...
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A simple example on how to use shell-escape option

I have got an issue when using the moodle package which I suspect is related to the -shell-escape option see this question on TeX-exchange: error when using tikzpicture with moodle package. In my ...
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Producing a minimal valid PDF/X-1A document with recent TeXLive

I am trying to produce a valid PDF/X1-A document. I'd like to start with the simplest document possible that passes PDF validation. Here is what I have currently, and the current set of errors as ...
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Using fira-math with pdflatex

Can I use the fira-math font with pdflatex? With the sfmath package I can activate a sans serif font for the math but would like to use the matching font fira-math (https://github.com/firamath/...
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Compile multiple Latex files in parallel

I have around 100000 Latex scripts, each of which generates a document upon compilation, and they share same packages being included. I tried compiling 10 scripts in a sequential fashion using Python ...
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Algorithm: overlapping code lines and misplaced final horizontal line

I am currently adapting an article to the MDPI template and I have encountered some problems with the algorithm package. Code lines overlap and the last code line appears below the end horizontal line....
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Efficiently setting category code for a range of characters

I kept thinking about using Cyrillic characters in command names with PDFTeX engine. It looks to me so far that if I stay with 8-bit encoding and assign category code 11 to all Cyrillic letters ...
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How to enter dashes in \hyphenation?

I have an extra file for all my hyphenations. Alas, the command \hyphenation does not understand the = notation for "dash that stays after hyphenation here". Is there any way to get \hyphenation to ...
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An error while compiling

I downloaded the template from here and compiled it, I get the error NEURAL_NETWORK not found. \includegraphics[width=2.5in]{NEURAL_NETWORK} Then, I compiled it in an other PC, there is no problem. ...
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Is there a single word that I can use to refer to different TeX-based formats or engines?

I am writing an article on the TeX, pfdTeX, XeTex and LuaTeX engines and the LaTeX, pfdLaTeX, XeLaTex and LuaLaTeX formats. I find it necessary in some parts of my article to refer to the above-...
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lecturer.tex and xetex

I am experimenting with lighter-weight alternatives to beamer, and found lecturer.tex interesting. However, it depends on PDF-specific features, thus it compiles under pdftex. If I try to use xetex I ...
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LaTeX can't find .cls files

I recently downloaded MacTeX-2015 and wrote a very short file which I called test.tex: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello world. \[ e^{2\pi i} = 1. \] \end{document} I opened the file ...
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How can I install newly created fonts?

I am using texlive2015 on Ubuntu 14.04. The distro is owned by root and I have to use sudo for such things as updmap. [I have another computer where I changed ownership to me, but the following ...
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XeLaTeX output prints fine, pdfLaTeX print fails

I have generated two PDF files from the same source, one via XeLaTeX and the other via pdfLaTeX. The pdfLaTeX file is larger (as already noted in File size difference between XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX). ...
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getting error "could not start command pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex"

I use a texmakerwin_32 \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \begin{document} sharath \end{...
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! LaTeX error: "kernel/command-not-defined" ! ! Control sequence \str_case:nnn undefined

I am starting to write a report and I have used what I have previously done some months ago and it gives me this error: ! LaTeX error: "kernel/command-not-defined" ! ! Control sequence \str_case:nnn ...
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why hyperref link text border(box) doesn't have uniform size under Xelatex

I found that the same code under different tex engines gives different hyperref link border(box) size, see the minimal sample code below: \documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{...
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File ended while scanning use of \@topnewpage

I get this error while trying to compile the following code. I've already tried to delete .aux files. What else could it be the issue? \documentclass[conference,harvard,brazil,english]{sbatex} \...
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TexStudio - internal embedded pdf viewer shows different figure than external pdf viewer of the output pdf

I use TexStudio (2.9.4) on a Mac OSX (10.10.3) with TexLive. The problem here is that when I insert figures, that are saved as pdf files, and compile with PDFLaTex, the output figures deviate from the ...
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Automatic line breaking for English

I have c. 80 pages of English text that naturally contains (in)definite articles. The text is block-aligned. The problem is that the article sometimes remains in the end of line and the noun starts on ...
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vim-latex does not display compilation errors

I installed vim-latex using Vundle and have been trying to use it to write a LaTeX document. Using \ll compiles the document if there are no errors and opens the .pdf in my pdf viewer, exactly was I ...
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How to ignore undefined references (e.g. when temporarily commenting out whole chapters)?

I'm working on a fairly large document, and compilation times are somewhat annoying. My general workflow is to use: latexmk in continuous mode to compile the document (pdflatex), and rubber-info on ...
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Distributable Tex application

I'm trying to write a very short .tex file which should read some images and text and create a report in pdf. Writing the tex is definitely not the problem. The report will contain some text, and a ...
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Defining -aux-directory for pdflatex breaks citations for natbib

When I run pdflatex with an -aux-directory flag it makes it so natbib can't find the citations. pdflatex command with -aux-directory: pdflatex.exe -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex -aux-...
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No visible images in PDF: MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Recently, I was forced to reinstall my MikTeX distribution. Now, in documents that compile without an actual tex error, there are missing graphics that I have included as eps-files. The following ...
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Conversion of big "amount" of seconds into HH:MM:SS when plotting timeseries with pgfplots

My aim is to plot a timeseries (experimental data) using pgfplots in LaTeX (pdfLaTeX, TexLive on Mac). The data I'm using is seperated with semicolons (columnwise) and has the following structure: -- ...
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MinionPro package semibold / medium fonts

How can the medium and semibold weights of Adobe Minion Pro be accessed in pdfLaTeX with the MinionPro package? I am confused by the package documentation, which indicates initially that the ...
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eps import wrong title in graphic \pi looks like \neq

I need to import a figure from Matlab. I export it as an .eps. I use epstopdf to import it in LaTeX and for some unknown reasons the greek letter pi in the title of the plot that looks ok in the .eps ...
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Space is sometimes gobbled with microtype and url

I experimented with condensing URLs slightly and thought everything worked fine, until I noted a problem in the final proofreading. The first "this" in the following minimal example seems to have no ...
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PDF images not showing up with lualatex/pdflatex

I am trying to include an image in PDF format into my document as a figure. When compiling with lualatex or pdflatex, the image does not appear. If I take that very PDF image and convert it to PNG and ...
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Globally change the font size in EPS figures (when using pdfLaTeX with pstool)

I have a document where float environments are typeset with \small font (tables, figures). For the tables and most environments in general, this works nicely with \AtBeginEnvironment{tabular}{\small} ...
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Texmaker can't compile "pdflatex: Bad parameter value. pdflatex: Data: font_mem_size"

My Texmaker with MikTex setup have been working without problems for years, but I had to reinstall MikTex for it to recognise a new package I wanted to use. After reinstallation everything worked fine,...
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Problem converting equations to images on Windows 10

My problem follows on from the question posed by JansthcirlU and from the response by Marijn (Converting equations to images). I blindly copied Marijn's first MWE and it works perfectly on Overleaf. ...
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How to inject \directlua expansions back into TeX files

Is there a simple way (i.e. a flag to latexmk) to preprocess a source TeX file with LuaLaTeX, so that I get back the same source with just the invokations to \directlua expanded? My usecase is that I ...
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Why are LX Fonts Compiled Incorrectly on pdfLaTeX?

After successfully compiled the demo of LX fonts on LuaLaTeX I noticed two issues with \texttt, one on slide 6 and other on slide 12. To investigate further, I decided to use pdfLaTeX to compile the ...
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Argument of � has an extra } error from listings + hyperref

I'm merging two previously working documents and came across this error (several instances of it, actually). I've reduced it into the following MWE, and it seems to be caused by some interaction ...
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writing tables from r to latex without changing decimal format

I have ran a set regression in r and collected some of the statistics in a data frame format: variable|coefficient|s.e.|p-val|control|....| I am now writing that table using a template on my desktop ...
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How to prevent extra spaces when writing to .aux file?

Consider this: \documentclass{article} \makeatletter \begin{document} \csname mycommand\endcsname \immediate\write\@auxout{\gdef\noexpand\mycommand{text}} \end{document} After running pdflatex .aux ...
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TexWorks saving Method

I am VERY new to Latex and coding and coding has never been something I am good at. When I compile, TexWorks automatically creates a zip file for syntex file and saves aux, log, tex and pdf files ...
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