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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includegraphics choosing pdf instead of eps [closed]
I previously posted this on stackoverflow.com where it was suggested that I post it here. So apologies in advance for cross-posting.
I am using LaTeX in ubuntu 10.04 to build a TeX file that uses ...
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Gnuplot subdirectory not found using epstopdf
I'm moving from the gnuplot latex terminal, to the epslatex terminal. I use pdflatex. With the epslatex terminal, I receive two output files, a .tex and a .eps. I can use epstopdf to convert the eps ...
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TeX Gyre Pagella and itemize enviroment gives font warnings
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tgpagella}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item test1
\item test2
\item test3
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
Compiling the above minimal LaTeX file ...
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Issues when compiling TeX files with Vim and LaTeX-suite
I'm having problems compiling a TeX file with LaTeX-suite on Ubuntu.
In my .vimrc, I have the following lines :
filetype plugin on
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
filetype indent on
let ...
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Windows 7: problem with TeXnicCenter, MiKTeX2.9
Please help! They have updated my computer to Windows 7, and I have tried to reinstall MiKTeX2.9 and TeXnicCenter. When I run a LaTeX program, it tries to install 412 files from CTAN, and I get the ...
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Recover TeX file back from compiled PDF [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to convert PDF to (La)TeX?
Has anyone written a piece of code that (at least) tries to reconstruct (standard) LaTeX from a compiled PDF file? I mean, identifying ...
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How can I generate PDF metadata from LaTeX?
I am writing a document using LaTeX and generating PDF. Can anybody tell me how I can generate the PDF metadata, e.g. author or title, from LaTeX? On Windows XP, I am using MikTex's texify to ...
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Pop-up references in PDF output
I once saw a maths journal which offered PDFs of published papers, where the bibliographic references were formatted as PDF annotations: if you moused over a reference in the text, the bibliography ...
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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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The ^^ notation in various engines
Basically, how does the ^^^... notation work in LuaTeX and XeTeX, exactly?
In 8-bit TeX engines (recent TeX, eTeX, pdfTeX, at least), two consecutive identical catcode 7 characters (typically ^), ...
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What's the maximum number of pages a PDF produced by pdfTeX can have?
Are there some limitations regarding the pdflatex command with respect to the count of pages of the input files?
My highest page count, when compiling, was 90 without any troubles. (2008)
Currently ...
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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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Starting with TeX (not LaTeX)
I've been using LaTeX for 3 years and I'm decided to switch to (plain) TeX. For the moment I'm reading The TeXbook for the third time (I quietly start to read the double-danger signed paragraphs) and ...
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moderncv - filesize of pdf too big
I managed to work out how to create a job application that is entirely written in the moderncv style. I use the moderncv class itself for my CV and the attachments (making each document a section with ...
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Customizing pdfLaTeX for a particular file with AUCTeX?
I'm trying to use the TikZ 'external' library, available as of PGF 2.10. This requires running pdfLaTeX with the option -shell-escape. I usually run pdfLaTeX from AUCTeX with the option
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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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Why does pdflatex produce bigger output files than latex+dvipdfm?
Consider this sample code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-4]
\end{document}
When I compile this with latex and then use dvipdfm, the output file is 7893 ...
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Ensure verbatim code block is copy/paste-able
After rendering a document containing this code block
\begin{verbatim}
if [ ! -d .git ]; then git init; fi # Initialises a new Git repository, if doesn't already exist.
if [ ! -f README.md ]; ...
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Remove hyphen from word spanning two lines in text copied from a pdf file
If I copy text from a PDF and a word is hyphenated and spans two lines, the copied text contains the "-". For example:
Examp-
le
should be copied as
Example
not
Examp-le
The problem is ...
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What is the status of pdfsync?
The pdfsync homepage states that:
At the end of this summer (2007), pdfsync is slowly migrating to pdftex itself. We are working at giving pdftex all the pdfsync ability and more...
The pdfsync ...
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Insert web content dynamically (Javascript?)
This year in my field we have a large conference overlapping with the European soccer championship. Luckily my talk does not overlap with any match, but in case it will happen in the future I was ...
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Where I can find the source code of pdflatex.exe?
Where I can find the source code of pdflatex.exe?
Edit 1
This is quoted from the link given by @TH.
pdfTeX is built on top of TeX, written by Donald Knuth cum suis (Liang and
so), and eTeX, ...
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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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Trouble using \oldstylenums with decimal points and hyphens
I am using Computer Modern font (default) with \oldstylenums command to typeset numbers in oldstyle format. However I am having trouble using it with non-numeric characters such as decimal points and ...
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Can pdflatex (or any tex package) automatically rescale included images which have been reduced in size?
I'm writing my thesis in LaTeX, generating it with pdflatex. I have a large number of figures, many of which are bitmaps (as opposed to SVG) in PNG/JPEG format. I've generally created them to be ...
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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 ...
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epstopdf warning: “Shell escape feature is not enabled.”
I'm having a bit of trouble trying to include .eps files in a LaTeX document compiled with pdfLaTeX. I've been told that I should use the epstopdf package to convert .eps files to .pdf on the fly.
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pdflatex: fit-page-to-contents or scale-contents-to-fit-page
I have a problem which can be solved one of two ways:
Typeset a given chunk of TeX in an "infinitely wide" space, then scale the result so that its width is the width of the page.
Typeset a given ...
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\includegraphics and \includepdf both remove all copy (text) from my (R outputted) pdf graphs, using pdfTeX
I'm using pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009) (format=pdflatex 2010.8.30) in TexMaker 2.1 on Mac OSX. I installed the whatever latex packages using the "easier" method at ...
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Image quality of pdf file generated from latex
I have been using my computer to generating pdf files from latex file by Winshell (or lyx), but the characters (or images) in the pdf files generated on my computer looks always much worse than the ...
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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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pstool, pdfLaTeX: Not getting pstool to work, “LaTeX Error: File not found”
I've spent lots of hours trying to solve a problem by myself. Unfortunately it seems that no one else has experienced the same problem. At least, searching through various forums and employing Google ...
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Including a PDF page in latex with pdfpages without scaling
I am writing a document in LaTeX and I'm trying to include a frontpage in PDF (aptly called "Frontpage.pdf") the document, to be compiled with Pdflatex.
I tried to include it with the pdfpages ...
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Should I load microtype with pdflatex?
Should I always load the microtype package with pdflatex?
Could it produce unwanted effects a naive user (like me) might ignore?
Are there any known issues as for compatibility with other packages?
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Proper use of cmap and mmap
I am curious about the differences between
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[resetfonts]{cmap}
\usepackage{mmap} (= \usepackage[useTeX]{mmap})
\usepackage[noTeX]{mmap}
What are their precise ...
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Conflict between color, graphicx and libertine
Compiling the following with pdflatex (TeXLive 2009/Debian on Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx")
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine} % ...
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How to produce character-by-character-pastable visual output that is a function of the (intended-to-paste-as-such) source code input?
Note: The original phrasing of my question was this: How to use accsupp to produce all-upercase in the visual output from input that should paste in its original, ordinary-case form? However I think a ...
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File size difference between XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX
When working with MacTeX 2010, I noticed that XeLaTeX generates files considerably smaller than pdfLaTeX on the same input.
Even with the small example
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
...
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Three emdashes bound together
In many bibliography styles repeating authors are indicated with three emdashes, forming a single line. This works well with some fonts, while for others it leaves gaps:
...
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\left and \right in equation across multiple lines [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Left/Right across multiline equation
Could someone explain why I can't get the left and right commands to work correctly
code:
\documentclass{article}
...
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How do I configure fonts and package options for different engines?
I would like to be able to rely on the code in my document class to respond correctly to whether it is being rendered using pdfLaTeX or XeTeX engines. The editor I'm using (LyX) does this using ...
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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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calling latex from php: security issues
I am trying to program a web interface for automated generation of calculus tests. The idea is to take some input from user, say number of problems and name of instructor, and then by means of php ...
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pdfTeX font expansion error - \SetExpansion in microtype package
I am trying to hammer in some stacked matrix notation to fit the paragraph by shrinking the font. To do so I am using the \SetExpansion option from the microtype package. But pdfTeX is spitting out ...
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How do I get rid of particular pdftex warning message?
Here is a minimal example that showcases my problem:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
\newtheorem{lem}[thm]{Lemma}
...
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Use case for pdfTeX's \quitvmode
While reading one of Lev's answers, I encountered a pdfTeX primitive \quitvmode that I have never noticed before.
The pdfTeX manual states that this causes TeX to leave (internal) vertical mode and ...
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Generating PDF without any intermediary files (stdin/stdout)
I am programmatically generating PDF's from a template and would like to avoid hitting the hard-drive all the time. Not so much for optimization but because I run parallell threads on all the cores ...
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How to make images appear at their actual size?
Whenever I insert an image into my PDFTex document (using the code below) it seems to be resized to fit the width of the page. I know I can change this using the scale parameter, but that means I have ...
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How to enable shell-escape in TeXworks?
I require use of the minted package of similar one which support Prolog syntax-highlighting.
Given that I use the TeXworks "IDE", how do I enable shell-escape?
Though I attempted—see above—I still ...
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Automatically create two PDF output files from one tex file [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can one TeX file output to multiple PDF files?
Let's say I have a tex file foo.tex. Now, I want to achieve that pdflatex does not only create a file foo.pdf but ...
