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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Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX
Until now, I have been compiling my LaTeX documents with pdfLaTeX. My standard document preamble includes the "usual suspects" for non-English speakers (inputenc, fontenc, babel) and a bunch of other ...
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Why are some pages in my PDF coming out bold?
When I run my LaTeX document through pdflatex, some of the pages (the ones where figures appear) have all the text bolded. Why, and what can I do to make it stop?
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How to use PSTricks in pdfLaTeX?
I thought that PSTricks package was not possible to use in pdfLaTeX but the user Dima claims otherwise.
How can I force pdfLaTeX to use PSTricks then?
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How to make the PDFs produced by `pdflatex` smaller?
I feel that the PDFs produced by pdflatex are too huge. So for example my 50 page book with no illustrations is 500KB. I feel it should be more like 50K or even less. The .tex files together are just ...
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How to convert PDF to (La)TeX?
I know that probably no information is passed to the PDF when a .tex file is compiled, but is there a tool that can convert a PDF document to (La)TeX?
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Included PNG appears blurry in PDF
This is a follow-up to Included png appears too big in PDF, but it's a separate issue so I'll put it in its own question instead of burying it in comments.
The problem: an included PNG, included ...
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Why can't pdflatex print EPS figures?
The images in my paper are in EPS format. If I execute pdflatex to get a PDF version of my paper, the figures won't appear. I have to typeset using the latex command, and then convert the DVI file to ...
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What is the practical difference between latex and pdflatex?
I understand that some packages (like PSTricks) can't be used with pdflatex.
Are there any other differences between these tools?
Can we say that pdflatex is better if we don't care about ps?
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Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
I'm in the process of switching my LaTeX document from pdflatex to lualatex. Similar to Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX I would like to know, what are typical ...
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My pixel perfect picture gets blurry when compiled in LaTex
Here's my problem.
I have this picture: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3394117/Temp/fig1.png (I have the original in Pixen and could export it to several different formats. I went with png though since it's ...
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Using psfrag with pdflatex
Is there any way of using psfrag with pdflatex?
It seems fairly similar to the problem of using pstricks with pdflatex.
Do they both depend on the same things, or does psfrag include pstricks?
Can I ...
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What are good ways to make pdflatex output copy-and-pasteable?
One frequent aspect of pdflatex output that could be improved is to what extent one can select text output from the generated pdf-file and copy-and-paste it. This is essentially an issue of having the ...
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Is there any reason to compile to DVI rather than PDF these days?
I appreciate that in the past, latex was faster than pdflatex, but computer speeds being what they are nowadays, I can't see any difference in how quickly documents compile...
So, given that the end ...
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Which figure type to use: pdf or eps?
Both are vector graphics (typically) and both can be imported painlessly into a pdflatex document (so let's say we ignore dvi for this question).
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? ...
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Choosing whether to include PDF or PNG in PDFLaTeX
Can I tell graphicx somehow which graphic format to choose when I omit the file extension in includegraphics and both a PDF and a PNG version of the same image exist? The reason is that I have some ...
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How to annotate PDF files generated by pdflatex?
I want to annotate some PDF files (created with pdflatex), e.g.
word x is missing here
this part of a sentence should be moved to the front
replace word x by y
highlight this sentence
insert a note
...
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Using LuaTeX as a replacement for pdfTeX
In this question Differences between LuaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX various differences between LuaTeX and XeTeX (and ConTeXt) are discussed. And in this question Using XeLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX a recipe ...
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How to speed up pdflatex for a very large document on MacOS X?
I wonder how I can speed up the pdflatex compilation of a large document (thesis) with >200 pages and many images (however all imported PDFs or imported pixel graphics, no TikZor similar things yet!).
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Make ligatures in Linux Libertine copyable (and searchable)
I'm currently working on an essay written in LaTeX form. I'm facing problems with ligatures - in my pdf output (rendered using pdftex) opened in Adobe Reader I get X's and V's when copy-pasting words ...
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Utilizing oldstyle figures without resorting to \oldstylenums
Quite a few of the freely available LaTeX fonts include oldstyle figures (numerals that harmonize with lower case letters) in addition to lining figures. (Generally, you have to load the textcomp ...
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Using non ASCII characters in author names and titles within hyperref pdfinfo
I am trying to generate a PDF file (using pdflatex) with hyperref references; both the title and author should be visible as pdf properties, and both contain accents or non us-ASCII. The rest of the ...
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Is there a way to configure pdflatex to make all but the .tex and .pdf files hidden files?
I have asked a previous question about how to manage all the files generated when my LaTeX files are compiled but the approach in the answer I accepted is still unsatisfactory for the many small ...
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How to make a real apostrophe or single-quote in LaTeX
I am trying to incorporate programming examples in a LaTeX document.
The document renders nicely with pdflatex; however, the single quotes get transformed into U+2019, a right-single-quotation mark. ...
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How does “libertine-type1” work?
I am really struggling to understand how the packages libertine-type1 and biolinum-type1 work now that libertine-legacy is depreciated. According to the new libertine.sty all options when using ...
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Workflow for reviewing PDFs generated from TeX?
I am currently letting friends and family spellcheck my thesis written with LaTeX.
Since my markup is macro-heavy and not all of them have ever used another editor but MS Word, I cannot let them work ...
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How to setup synctex with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux?
Inspired by the comments to this answer I am curious how to actually setup and use forward/reverse (inverse) search with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux.
Btw, to give more ...
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How to create PDF and HTML output from the same source
I'm working on a document that has been published only as a PDF file until now. To utilize some of PDF's features, it uses the packages pdfpages and pdftex and commands like includepdf{}.
But soon ...
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Fast PNG embedding using pdflatex
I have a LaTeX document, that includes a lot PNG images. It takes about 18 second to compile. Most of the time is spent for the inclusion of the PNG images. The pdfTeX 1.40 manual from ctan states on ...
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Precompiled preamble with TikZ/Externalize
I'm using the externalize capability of TikZ (external library) to speed up compilation of my TikZ pictures (as explained in Script to automate externalizing tikz graphics).
In addition, I would like ...
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How to set security options to create PDF using pdflatex
My questions is very simple.
How can I set security setting for a PDF file created with PDFLatex?
I should set some password or print permissions, etc.
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Ligatures in figures and pdftex
In the following example, the 'ff' ligature in the figure labels (in 'differential') disappears when pdflatex is used, but the fault does not occur if latex-dvips-ps2pdf is used instead. Both lualatex ...
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Expandable full expansion of tokens that preserves catcodes
Is it possible to fully expand tokens in an expandable manner and preserves category codes? I'd like to do this just using pdfTeX.
I'm looking for something that would work like this:
\def\foo{foo}
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Can (pdf)LaTeX recognize text strings and replace (expand) them?
I'd like LaTeX to replace e^ with \mathrm{e}^. I know I could just make a macro \e that does this, but I know I'll forget using it..
Can LaTeX find and replace and replace letter combinations (I ...
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Hyperref warning - Token not allowed in a PDF string
When compiling a beamer presentation and using the following \author command
\author{Name \\ \texttt{my.email@domain.com}}
I get the following hyperref warning in my logfile
Package hyperref ...
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How does one insert a URL correctly?
I'd like to insert a URL. Is there a "correct" way of doing that? If so, is there a way to turn it into a link inside the final pdf generated with pdfTeX?
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Detect which TeX engine is used
How can I detect inside a TeX file which engine (pdftex/xetex/luatex) is used to compile the file? Is there a LaTeX package that provides this functionality?
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What's the absolute largest paper size permissible with pdflatex?
I've had occasion to typeset extraordinarily large matrices, which I didn't seriously expect anyone to expect in detail (without a computer) or print, but I needed it to be obvious that they were ...
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Why is there no pdffrag package?
The psfrag package has been around for more than a decade* and is easy to use:
\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\usepackage{psfrag}% http://ctan.org/pkg/psfrag
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Gnuplottex basic example fails with 'undefined control sequence'
I'm using latest TeXLive on Linux, and have gnuplot installed. I have also installed gnuplottex package.
Then, I'm trying to compile the basic gnuplottex CTAN example, example-pdf.tex; however, I ...
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“Font shape undefined” with latex and isodoc
I'm trying to create a simple invoice with pdflatex and the isodoc class. Unfortunately, the "INVOICE" opening is appear in all lowercase, and I suspect this warning is the reason why:
LaTeX Font ...
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LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .ps
When I try to compile this file http://danjer.doudouke.org/_media/tech/dokutexit/playground.zip this error occurs:
! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .ps.
I'm using TeXworks Version 0.4.3 ...
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Convert LaTeX to HTML
Is there a converter that will convert LaTeX to HTML? I have tried several services but the LaTeX diagrams and some of the maths came out weird.
I actually converted the Latex to PDF without a ...
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Bounding box for each letter
How can I take input text and replace each character with a solid (and/or hollow) rectangle representing the bounding box for that character? In the case where two characters are closer together from ...
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How to make text copy in PDF previewers ignore lineno line numbers?
I'm using lineno for a document. I have it configured to put line numbers in the margins of the document. I generate PDF using pdflatex. Here's the problem: when people copy a region of text in a ...
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Print 'system information' in LaTeX doc
I've used TeX quite a bit before but am getting back into it at the moment.
I want to print a document details page with info such as:
Compiled on:
Compiled by:
OS version:
LaTeX version:
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eps figures with pdflatex
In a recent discussion on this site I learned that using
\usepackage[pdf]{pstricks}
makes it possible to run pdflatex on files containing eps and pstricks files (and psfrag usage as well). Now a ...
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Small Caps and Bold Face
I can't seem to have both the small caps and boldface styles on a line:
\huge\sc\bf Hello
This will generate bold text, and if the \sc is placed after, it will generate small caps text but not ...
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Conditional Compiling and \documentclass
I am quite new to latex and don't quite get it how to compile different versions of my presentation. If this is important: I am using pdflatex and beamer.
There are three documentclasses I am ...
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libertine font package doesn't work anymore (December 2011)
If you're using an up-to-date system and you're having trouble with using the Linux Libertine fonts, you should probably check out Linux Libertine package and fonts not working any more (fall 2012), ...
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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 ...
