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Trouble with latex and dvips with an FSTTCS documentclass
Following from my other question Which DVI viewer on linux?, now that I can easily view DVI files I came to the conclusion that the unusual document class I used for my document defines some ...
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AucTeX (in Emacs) doesn't seem to find certain packages
I am using AucTeX in emacs v23 in PFD-mode. When invoking the pdflatex compiler through C-c C-c LaTeX I get a [...] file <some_package>.sty not found error for some particular packages. For ...
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Why using pdf we get better results than using dvi?
In How can I auto adjust a equation to appear in the entire page? (Scale to equations, is this exist?) I asked how I could change the equation sizes.
Nothing seemed to work. But the problem was I was ...
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UTF8 Encoding/Mapping in the pdf with PdfTeX (Application to Fourier Font) [closed]
After many search, I have found how to have a pretty good UTF8 mapping (which give no bad result on Acrobat Pro accessibility checking) for lmodern and amsfonts.
The code needed is in the minimal ...
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Can't use pstricks - boundingbox error
This is a technical problem arising from this question: Bending snakes with xy-pic and also regarding the accepted answer to this question:
How to use PSTricks in pdfLaTeX?
\documentclass{article}
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CVPR Style in draft mode fails to compile pstricks figure
I'm new to this pstricks figures. So I apologize if my question is very basic.
So this is the problem. I have a style from CVPR, cvpr.sty, and a figure that I create using a script that creates ...
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How to force pdfTeX and XeTeX to produce the same measurement for the imported image?
resolution is undefined in XeTeX so the following code will produce different values when compiled with pdfTeX and XeTeX.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newsavebox\IBox
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Which one produces a pdf with the smaller file size? pdflatex or latex-dvips-ps2pdf?
Assume I have a screenshot in png format and make a copy of it in eps format by using ImageMagick.
I create two input file, namely ForPNG.tex and ForEPS.tex. ForPNG.tex imports the png image and is ...
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pdflatex.ini missing - but it's there (MikTeX) [closed]
When I try to compile the .tex-file, I get an error, telling me that the pdflatex.ini is missing in \tex\config\pdflatex.ini.
I went looking into the directory - and the file is there. But TeXWorks ...
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Manually installed font looks bit-mappy and conflicts with microtype
Following the instructions here I tried to install the Vollkorn font. Now, after some fiddling (see the comments on the above linked blog post) I managed to get the font to work, but there are some ...
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htlatex leaves undefined reference (“??” link) but pdflatex produces correct output
We have a large document that runs through pdflatex and through htlatex.
The pdflatex output is fully ok.
The htlatex output is also ok (it contains all images etc.) except that for
some ...
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Boxes in LaTeX not proper
\setlength\fboxrule{2pt}\setlength\fboxsep{2mm}
\fbox{ Let $f:[0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function. If $f$ is infinitely differentiable, \ then prove that $f$ coincides with a ...
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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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PDF compatibility, how to validate? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
PDF conformance tool
I have created PDF-files using XeLaTeX and there has been no problem when I have shared these files with co-workers using Acrobat Reader. But when I ...
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How do I paste codepoints outside of the basic multilingual plane with accsupp or \pdfglyphtounicode?
As described in the answers to this question, the accsupp package can be used to have symbols paste as arbitrary Unicode codepoints. For example you might want to write something like the following, ...
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How can I keep browsing my pdf with synctex at the same time as LaTeX is rebuilding it?
As discussed here pdflatex preview problem: white pdf pages with only hyperref-rectangles visible during compile? when working on my dissertation which takes a long time to compile (even when ...
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Could someone help with me LaTeX ? I don't know why it isn't compiling
I am new to LaTeX and i guess computer science in general. I am trying to generate a pdf with an image. I am having a lot of problems. I use MiKTeX 2.8
Here is what I entered
\documentclass{report}
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Acrobat on Windows doesn't recognize the images from pdflatex pdfs generated on Ubuntu [closed]
I'm dealing with an annoying behaviour of my pdf file. It seems that Acrobat or Reader doesn't recognize the images. I work with texlive on Ubuntu 11.04 and I compile the source file with pdftex in ...
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! LaTeX Error: File 'figures/UILogoLG3L' not found [closed]
I'm trying to follow this tutorial: http://www.matthewjmiller.net/howtos/customized-cover-letter-scripts/
I downloaded the cover letter.tex, and I'm trying to 'typeset' it. So I press the green play ...
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Compiling problems with scrreprt [closed]
I want to compile my theses with scrreprt and classicthesis, but it does not work.
Here you have a compilation output:
pdflatex \\nonstopmode\\input tesis.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version ...
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Embedding base14 fonts in PDF created using pdfLaTeX
I created a PDF using txfonts. But the base 14 fonts (Times-Roman, Times-Italic etc.) are not embedded in the PDF. Could somebody help me to solve this issue? The font information in my PDF is as ...
