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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eps and png in LaTeX [duplicate]
I am writing a report and some of the figures I want to include are in .png format, while some others are in .eps format. In the first part of the report, I only used the figures with the .png format ...
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For figures in PDF format, what version and standard is ideal?
What PDF version and standard is ideally suited for the current version of pdflatex? Primarily for press, but online distribution will follow (large scientific publication).
Bonus: Include some of ...
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What is the most efficient way to render LaTeX to a viewable format on a server?
I am working on an online web-app that incorporates LaTeX document generation.
Currently, as a beginner to LaTeX (but the most experienced developer in my team), I am trying to determine the most ...
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pdfpage error with url outside margin
A colleague of mine has to merge multiple PDF papers for conference proceedings.
We tried to use pdfpage with the includepdf command that works great.
Unfortunately there is a specific PDF that ...
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psfragify? Aka problem with EPS and pdfLaTeX
If I want to include a .eps image and yet use pdfLaTeX, I can do so using epstopdf (manually called, automated in TL2010+, using the package). However, as far as I know, all these options are ...
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Where to put Latex generic commands? [duplicate]
Using more and more Latex I reach a point where I don't want to copy/paste anymore the new "generic" commands I created.
As an example, I have generic commands to create Tikz pictures. These commands ...
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copy/pastes odd chars from a document written using hangul package
Recently i've been involved in writing document in Korean. I've managed to install the hangul package and write the following statement :
\usepackage{hangul} % pretty simple
everything was fine ...
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Latex or PdfLatex to generate DVI
I would like to generate DVI output using latex or pdflatex, it doesn't matter. First, I would like to mention that I run the following command to compile my document and it runs successfully -
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FMT to CLS Creation in LaTeX
A Few years back we have created fmt format through PDFTEX. Now we have need to update some points in the class file. It is possible again to create fmt to .cls or .dtx files?
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LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in title.png (no BoundingBox)
I seem to be getting a strange error after updating MiKTeX 2.9. I am using pdfLaTeX and TeXmaker with the graphicx package to include .png images. When I try to compile, I get the error LaTeX Error: ...
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How can I get a PDF with copyable text if I need to use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}? [duplicate]
Consider the following situation:
A .tex file with the following content:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
Let it be.
\end{document}
The file is compiled by ...
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Embedded fonts not showing up correctly in PDF generated using pdfpages in pdfLaTeX
I am using the pdfpages package to include some other PDF documents into a LaTeX document I'm processing with pdfLaTeX.
One of the included PDFs has some uncommon fonts. They are embedded in the ...
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Strange Error with Libertine and pdfpages [duplicate]
Frequently I have to make a compilation of documents. Each document has been produced with pdfLaTeX, and the compilation is done with pdfLaTeX and the package pdfpages.
MWE of my file ...
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Illustrator pdfs displaying incorrectly in LaTeX [duplicate]
I've made quite a few images in Illustrator that have gone into LaTeX documents before with no problem, but now I'm having an issue with a graphic that has some gradients in it.
I've tried ...
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Style sheet found by TeXShop but “not by terminal” [closed]
I'm having some strange problem. I have a personal style sheet, which has been used for years without any problem when using TeXShop. For some reason, I want to generate a PDF with the pdfLaTeX ...
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No support for Asymptote in AUCTeX
I got a problem with my Emacs/AUCTeX setup. I'm using a lot of Asymptote graphics in my TeX documents, but there is a big problem to compile such documents inside of Emacs with AUCTeX. However I can ...
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Multiple version of pdftex side-by-side
For testing purposes, I want to set up another version of pdftex. The standard version, residing under /usr/lib/texmf/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex should be left untouched. I managed to compile pdftex, and ...
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Cmd-b compiles but only opens the PDF for some of my files, [closed]
Cmd-b compiles but only opens the PDF for some of my files and the other files perform a little differently. In all the other files compilation is successful but the PDF does not open or if it is open ...
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pdflatex of individual PDF images already containing pdfmark information
I'm using pdflatex to generate a document from hundreds of single-page PDF images. (The images are originally in Postscript but I use Ghostscript to convert them to PDF prior to running pdflatex). ...
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Why does XeTeX differ from pdfTeX?
I understand that XeTeX was written to handle UTF-8 input better than pdfTeX. However, it seems to process documents in a slightly different way. That is, documents that don't use special fonts or ...
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Run Latexian output with latexcalc
I'm using Latexian to typeset my documents, and also another tool called latexcalc(check it out, its really useful!) , which automatically evaluates the result of typeset calculations. Is there some ...
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Compiling same project gives different result after 2 months [closed]
Ok, here's the deal. In December I finished writing a long document. I compiled it and went on vacations. I get back and after 2 I months compiled the exact same project with absolutely nothing ...
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In which order should I load inputenc and fontenc?
When I’m using pdfLaTeX, my preamble usually contains
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
and
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
Should these two be loaded in any particular order? What problems could arise if ...
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Automatically change é to \'e – most convenient setup for accented letters?
I assume this is really basic question, I'm new to LaTeX, I read a first step tutorial to get ready to write some documents but I couldn't answer my own question at this time and I really don't know ...
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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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Texmaker and .pdftex file type
I am trying to compile a .pdftex file type using TeXmaker. There doesn't seem to be too much on .pdftex files on the internet and I can't seem to compile it.
Does anyone know how to handle .pdftex ...
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Bold Greek letters in achemso
I'm having trouble producing a bold capital "Pi" while using the achemso document class. The only success that I've had is by using \bm{\Pi} which produces an ugly result akin to "poor man's bold", ...
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Creating a form without submit action
I'm trying to create a AcroForm using LaTeX. I also want to use pdftk to merge many PDFs. The problem is that pdftk does not behave well when it encounters it and the fields are hidden, as well as ...
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inkscape pdf+latex, unclean exit
I have expected this question to be asked before, but searched and no luck. It took some effort to produce this MWE.
I have followed this link. When I pdflatex compile this, it produces an exit with ...
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Using Liberation font with pdflatex (no XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX)
I am looking for a substitute for the Times font we are using throughout our documents. This is how we load our fonts:
\usepackage{txfonts}
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{cmtt}
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png not scalable LaTeX using TexShop on Mac
After searching for a long time unfortunately I couldn't find a proper answer or used everything I found without any change.
I have several PNG files to include into my thesis but after including a ...
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Does the lualatex shell enable behavior differ from pdflatex on purpose?
I am trying to use TikzEdt, an editor for TikZ graphics. For some tasks TikZ needs to call other commands so I tried to enable this by the parameter --shell-escape passed to lualatex (on Windows, ...
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Conflict between TikZ with decorations.text library, caption and booktabs packages and progressbar theme [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
No room for a new \dimen
I obtain an error when using simultaneously the above 4 elements. When removing one of them (which I do not wish), the output is fine.
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looking a way to create toggle region in PDF generated by pdflatex
I am looking a way to generate a toggle region in PDF compiled by pdflatex. Something like this implemented with javascript in html
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How to use pstool in pdfLatex?
Update: After I adding those --shell -escape commands, when I run the code as below, it still cannot work.
\documentclass[pdftex]{memoir}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{pstool}
\input macros.tex
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Passing normal title to the pdf bookmark
I am writing a document and a section as a very long title troubling my header. To work around this, I am using the short title like this:
\section[bla]{blablabla}
This works fine for the header, ...
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MikTex Portable + Texmaker not supporting EPS [duplicate]
Keep in mind, I am a beginner to LaTeX in general and not skilled in command lines.
MiKTeX Portable and TeXmaker are installed on my portable drive. TeXmaker has been properly configured to use ...
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Is pdftex 1.40.13 outputting malformed pdfs?
I have several preexisting projects that produced valid pdf output on versions of pdftex up to 1.40.10. Now with version 1.40.13 I'm getting pdfs that the iText library complains are malformed. My ...
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How to tell which package is defining \ifpdf?
I'm experiencing a problem similar to this one: Package ifpdf Error
After upgrading to a more recent version of TeX Live, my pre-existing documents stopped compiling, with complaints that \ifpdf was ...
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How to run this template of latex in a Mac OS TexLive?
CASthesis-v0.2.zip
Above is a template for writing thesis in Chinese. (Fortunately, there is not very much Chinese content in this template.) It works well on a Windows machine. But when I run it on ...
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Adobe Acrobat misinterprets pdfLaTeX hyperref mailto links as relative paths
The following code works and produces a mailto link within a pdf document. However, when opened with Adobe Acrobat, the link becomes file:///path/to/document/%22mailto:foo@bar.abc%22.
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pgfplots: reduce tick density
I am using matlab2tikz to produce plots in latex. The default tick settings produce very dense ticks, making the axes look ugly. I know that I can use something like
/pgfplots/xtick={0, 1, ... 3}
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how to insert arabic glyphs in pdflatex
I'm trying to create an English document using pdflatex and want to insert a few cyrillic and arabic glyphs.
something like
the letter Я is cyrillic, whereas ش is arabic
I tried to follow advice ...
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How to compile LaTeX out-of-source while using bibtex?
I often use the out-of-source compilation on my LaTeX code to separate the generated files from the source files, thus I can conveniently commit my code to the repository. The command is like this:
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How to put kana with CJK in the name of a “polyglotic” glossary entry?
After discovered how to mix glossary and acronym system (See here), and how to put kana/kanji working with pdfLaTeX (See here), I was trying to mix the both, in order to create kind of dictonnary, ...
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Making an anonymous PDF file using PDFLaTeX
When writing a referee report for a journal, it would be preferrable to have the resulting PDF file generated by pdflatex be completely anonymous.
Does one need to take special actions to ensure ...
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How do I get LaTeX and XeLaTeX to place my images in the same way?
I've run into a problem when converting a book manuscript from LaTeX to XeLaTeX. The problem is that my image sizing and placement has not survived the conversion.
The book has numerous picture ...
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XeTeX, LuaTeX: a good investment? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Drawbacks of XeTeX/LuaTeX
I'm only writing in English and French. In order to get the best appearance (ligatures, spacing between words and letters...), would it be a ...
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Create link to the top of a page which contains a certain labelled object
I want to create a clickable link from which I can jump to the top of the page which contains a certain labelled object. I tried \pageref but then clicking on the corresponding link results in a jump ...
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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 ...
