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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epstopdf suddenly stopped working
I'm trying to compile some .tex files in WinEdt 7 with pdfLaTeX using MikTex 2.9. I have a lot of eps figures and was previously using epstopdf in the preamble without any problems. But for some ...
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Why is my PDF file so much different than my preview version?
I am using TeXShell and MiKTeX to compile with. Once I have written my code, I compile and preview and at first there was some problems with floats and stuff, but now, everything is perfect and ...
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Includegraphics maximum width
With \includegraphics I can give the width of the resulting image (which would be scaled).
How can I give a maximum width of the image? That is, if the original is smaller than X, I'd like to keep ...
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Extracting characters from the new libertine (with pdflatex)
The issue: I need to access e.g. libertine's delta glyph in pdflatex.
This question notes that the \libertineGlyph command is no longer provided by the latest version of the libertine package. It ...
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Bold arrows in xymatrix
How can I produce a bold arrow in the package \xymatrix? I've tried with \ar@{\bf{->}}[r] and similar alternatives without success.
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error with hyperref and the krantz class [closed]
I'm using the krantz.cls to write a book, and I ran into an error with the hyperref package. Here is a minimal example (test.tex):
\documentclass{krantz}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
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Including graphic outside bounding box using graphicx and pdflatex
I am including graphics from .pdf files into my latex document using the graphicx package. Some objects in the graphics files extend beyond the pdf page area, which is used as the bounding box for ...
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Creating PDF with external link to open another PDF
I am preparing a PDF file which will be put on the web. People will access it and should be able to open other pdf files from my PDF.
My commands works well for local pdf:
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pdffonts and adobe X disagree whether all fonts are embedded
I'm finishing up my dissertation (in LyX, converted to pdf with pdflatex), and I checked to ensure that all fonts were embedded in the final pdf file, using pdffonts. It showed that all fonts were ...
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Latex to XML using pdflatex
I am writing Latex to XML. While compiling pdflatex we generate a xml file using \immediate\write{text} in tagged commands. But how can i get normal text to XML file. Can any one explain with samples.
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Latex ignores blank space after capital letters
I am having a weird problem. When I compile my documents, Latex drops white spaces between words. This happens only after capitalized letters. For example,
R reports the standard OLS SE, instead of ...
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URL package installed but cannot be found by pdflatex [closed]
I recently installed a full version of TeXLive 2012 (around 3.2 GB installation). Following is a simple LaTeX code that I am unable to compile:
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
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put two images on the same slide
sorry to bother you but I'm quite new in Latex. I would like to put two images in a presentation, better in one slide in this way:
image1
image2
the two images will go one under the other and ...
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Using ps2pdf colour and fonts change when TikZ picture added on beamer slide
When compiled with LaTeX + dvi2ps + ps2pdf the pdf output of the below MWE shows a strange behaviour:
On the first slide (without TikZ picture) fonts and colours are slightly different from the ones ...
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Words don't appear correctly in the output [closed]
So I have this weird problem, words like define and unified appear in the output pdf as dene and unied respectively, there are no errors whatsoever to worry about.
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Why does latex think it's tomorrow already?
Strange problem here:
Brandon@forge ~/Dropbox/research.local/oil
$ date
Tue, Nov 27, 2012 6:14:23 PM
Brandon@forge ~/Dropbox/research.local/oil
$ cat <<EOF | pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
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Unicode degree symbol ° in math formulas: \textdegree invalid in math mode
I'd like to be able to simply input a degree symbol as ° in my source code. German keyboards have a key for this, and it makes the source so much more readable. I'm using pdflatex from TeXLive 2012, ...
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how to set the margin of the included pdf with pdflatex [closed]
I have a pdf and I use the plugin "Prinect PDF Assistant: Geometry Control" to split that into 3 equal-width pdfs. If I open each of the seprated pdf, the right margin of the first pdf is ZERO, the ...
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LinLibertineO-osf-sc-t1--base at 720 not found [closed]
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file LinLibertineO-osf-sc-t1--base): Font LinLibertine
O-osf-sc-t1--base at 720 not found
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
I get this message with a ...
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Hyperlink each bib entry to its DOI page
Can I have each bib entry hyper-linked to its DOI page? i.e. clicking anywhere on the bib entry (preferably anywhere, but if not possible, at least on the title of the paper) in the PDF should open ...
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inserting code snippet into table
In my current latex report, I have to insert code snippets into Latex table. I have tried with listing but, listing is not working. I have written following latex code using verbatim. But, I want ...
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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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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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“The Errors of TeX” with hyperlinks
I was reading the appendix to "The Errors of TeX" by Knuth (errorlog.tex, written with plain TeX) and I noticed that there is a PDF file errorlog.pdf with nice hyperlinks and I was wondering how that ...
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Adobe Garamond and LaTeX (Linux)
I'm currently writing a math-heavy Ph.D. thesis (more about this in a minute) and, as I truly love Adobe Garamond, I would like to use it. However, given its cost, I would like to make sure that I ...
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How can I use -max-print-line in pdftex (TexLive)?
I know that Miktex has an option -max-print-line=n to change the width of the output. I wondered if something like that existed for pdftex from TexLive ?
I'm on Gentoo.
It is very annoying to have ...
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How to make a PDF/A document [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to generate PDF/A and PDF/X?
Are there any options that I could give to pdflatex and xelatex to make sure that all outputted documents adhere to the PDF/A standard? ...
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Setting TEXINPUTS for pdflatex in Ubuntu
I have a set of files that are commonly used as inputs in my tex files, so I put them in a directory and set the path in the TEXINPUTS environment variable (in Ubuntu). This works fine when compiling ...
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PDF that can be scanned faster by a PDF reader [closed]
Searching words with Ctrl+F in common PDF readers takes sometimes very long.
The time does not correlate with the number of pages, or the number of embedded pictures.
What causes slow fulltext ...
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pdflatex renders document with all dashes in bold [closed]
I have proceeded a new installation of LaTeX (in a new system: Ubuntu 12.04), I was installing from tug.org. Previously I was using TeX Live installed by apititude, on Ubuntu 10.04.
I'm using Kile as ...
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In TexMakerX, how can I generate only the PDF, with no log, aux or gz files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Prevent pdflatex from writing a bunch of files.
Every time I generate the PDF in TexMakerX 2.1 for Windows, it also generates the log, aux and gz files, in which I have ...
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How to get error messages from pdflatex tool (specially running from php)
I am executing pdflatex from php script and it gives me very long list of log entries mixed with errors e.g
system('/usr/texbin/pdflatex -output-directory=./temp/tex '.$tex_output . " 1> ...
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How to include a .mp file into a LaTex file?
I used metagraf to create the figure I wanted and saved it as a .mp file and I wanted to use the command "includegraphics{**.mps}" to include the corresponding figure but it said wrong, no such file ...
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Unicode emoticons with pdflatex
Following this answer, I tried to use Unicode emoticons with pdflatex like so:
{\fontfamily{DejaVuSans-TLF}\selectfont 😎}
The font is selected but the emoticon does not show.
There are some TTF ...
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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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\SetTracking in the math environment
I have been trying to use the \SetTracking option in microtype to shrink a paragraph that has some text and math. However, I notice that only the text - and not the math fonts - are being adjusted. ...
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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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inserting png introduces inputenc error
I want to write an article in Chinese, which needs to insert pictures.
It's fine when I insert pictures as .pdf but the following problem occurs if .png is inserted:
! Package inputenc Error: ...
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Insert code or text file in latex as is?
Question : How can I insert a txt file ( a source code) as such in latex without any change in indentation, tabs, formatting etc?
Scenario :
Consider I have a text file as below ( It is a part of a ...
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Option clash when using graphicx and tikz packages
The following code fails Option clash for package graphicx, it seems to be an incompatibility between the package graphicx (when the option pdftex is used) and the package tikz.
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Compiling CircuiTikZ with -shell-escape (pdflatex)
I'm trying to use both CircuiTikZ and pgfplots. In order not to overflow LaTeX memory, I use the TikZ externalize library with -shell-escape command in pdfLaTeX. It compiles the pgfplots nicely, but ...
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pdflatex + java applet? [closed]
I am writing lecture notes in Euclidean/Noneuclidean geometry, see here.
The lecture 10 is about geometric constructions, where I use some java applets for construction.
So far I made a hyperlink ...
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Distortion of parts of images and parts of images missing during animations in my .pdf output file produced using pdflatex
I have found placing animations in a .pdf (Portable Document Format) file beginning with a .gif animation challenging. At this stage my result in having animations in a .pdf file appears quite ...
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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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Non-ascii characters are not displayed in hyperref's pdftitle: bug in the 'unicode' option?
I'm trying to make pdflatex display non-ascii (cyrillic) characters in PDF metadata using hyperref's pdftitle and pdfauthor options. Here is my document:
\documentclass{article}
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what would be the best way to include .tif image to pdflatex document? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which graphics formats can be included in documents processed by latex or pdflatex?
I'm trying to include .tif image to a pdflatex document, but it says it is unknown ...
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Resolution (dpi) checks for included bitmaps
When I include bitmap images in my PDF files (created with pdflatex and the graphicx package), I always check manually that the resolution will be suitable (I shoot for something between 200 and 300 ...
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Memoir showtrims breaks auto-pst-pdf
I have set of large documents that need to go to printers and I want to show the trim edges. I'm using a large number of pstricks images in the documents (these are science and maths textbooks) so I'm ...
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Store information about which paper tray to use in PDF
Searching here, I found the question Embedding printer settings in pdf - while related, this appears to apply to printer settings for the entire PDF, not for changing printer settings per page.
Our ...
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Included pdf (wallpaper, or includegraphics) has different colors [duplicate]
Edit: Duplicate-clickers, please read on - I believe this case is different, for the following reasons:
a) As I said in original post, I am not printing with Acrobat, but using Skim and Mac OSX ...
