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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How do I customize a WikiPublisher tex file?
I've been using WikiPublisher (an addon for pmwiki) with quite a bit of success. Lately though, I have been wanting to customize the tex file that is used to generate the final pdf file from a ...
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How do I set the gamma correction of a full LaTeX document?
I will be holding a presentation with a PDF generated by LaTeX beamer.
Projectors in general need a gamma correction of about 2.0, however, my laptop doesn't enable me to set the gamma correction of ...
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Selecting a single word in ereaders
ebook readers let user select only a single word in the most PDF documents. However, when I try to select a word in a PDF generated with pdflatex (and also with latex), the ereader (i.e. sony prs600) ...
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Is is possible to installing only required LaTex tool “pdflatex” in Ubuntu?
I do not know the dependencies b/w the tools provided by the Latex bulky lib.A suggested command to install LaTex tools on Ubuntu is:
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
Its full installation requires ...
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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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pdflatex: Handling of fonts when including other pdfs
I was curious about one fact: How will pdflatex deal with fonts embedded in pdfs it includes?
For example: When I include 100 pdf-files (e.g. using \includegraphics) will the generated output file ...
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Some errors with a little document
I have some errors with my paper in LaTeX, and I don't understand how to fix the problems :
The first is :
pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the sa
me identifier (name{page.1}) has been ...
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Resolution (dpi) for \includeimage pictures and pdflatex
I am trying to create a pdf file with some pictures in it. Those are PNG files with 300dpi.
I use texlive and pdflatex from Debian Squeeze.
A simple code of my document would be:
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How to automate a workflow: several files in 1 master .tex
I have the following situation: I have to produce 60+ files in latex, each one from a .txt file, and with one master file (tex): I mean, I have a 1- or 2-page file per situation (a .txt file, in UTF8 ...
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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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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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Custom pygment lexer doesn't work in TeXShop or TeXworks
I wrote a lexer for pygments and it works well from the console. However when I use TeXShop or TeXworks I get the following error:
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ae/omsaer.fd)Error: ...
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No letters of certain fonts using winfonts package
I am trying to use the winfonts package on Windows 8. I installed according to instructions—copied them to texmf-local, edited local config files, update the file names and map files. When I compile ...
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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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How to put synctex file in different directory than pdf without segmentation fault?
I want to put output files (.pdf) into a _out dir and auxiliary files such as .synctex.gz or .toc into a _aux subdir.
From the help it seems that the -d option is what allows one to do it, but if I ...
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How to use Distiller joboptions in pdftex?
I've always used tex->dvi->ps->pdf workflow for PDF creation. Now I want to switch to direct tex->pdf creation using pdftex engine (lualatex, contex or pdflatex). But I have a strict requirements for ...
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compare two latex files with pdflatex.fmt format and not for .cls format
I would like to compare old.tex with new.tex file. I have find latexdiff is good for two latex comparison. But it's supporting only \documentclass{article}. But i have %&update-article.fmt format. ...
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Hyper References in Latex
I am using hyperref package for referencing but when i do references it gives me the chapter number instead of the label name and don't know why it is doing this as I am new to lateX. I searched a ...
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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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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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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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pdfpages package kills my figures!
I'm using the pdfpages package to include a pre-existing pdf into the document I'm compiling. When I don't use the package, the rest of my document compiles beautifully as either a .dvi or .pdf. When ...
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Anything better than jLatexMath for generating latex in image form (preferrably png)
Can anyone suggest me a .jar to be used for converting LaTeX into images (preferrably png format)?
I found that JLatexMath serves the purpose to some extent but it can only output most of the latex ...
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Strange PDF error in IEEEtran twocolumn
I am having an issue to compile a document. It gives the following error:
pdfTeX error (ext4): \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink.
I am using IEEEtran class, in ...
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SublimeText2 — plugin / keymap for cleanup ('latexmk -c')
The original question (which has since been edited numerous times) was the beginning of my ongoing quest to deal with the LaTeX auxiliary files using TexLive (MacTeX) on OSX (Snow Leopard and Mountain ...
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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 ...
