Questions tagged [pdftex]
pdfTeX is an extension of TeX which is capable of directly generating PDF output. Use this tag if the used engine – pdftex/pdflatex – is significant to your question.
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What exactly is SyncTeX?
I stumbled upon these SyncTeX files in my directories and wanted to know what they are for. I searched this site and the internet and I think I have some vague understanding of what it is but I'm ...
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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{[email protected]}}
I get the following hyperref warning in my logfile
Package hyperref ...
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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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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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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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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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How can I generate PDF metadata from LaTeX?
I am writing a document using LaTeX and generating PDF. Can anybody tell me how I can generate the PDF metadata, e.g. author or title, from LaTeX? On Windows XP, I am using MikTex's texify to ...
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How to convert PDF to (La)TeX?
I know that hardly any information is passed to the PDF when a .tex file is compiled.
But is there a tool that can convert a PDF document back to (La)TeX?
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Multiple PDFs with page group included in a single page warning
I updated TeX Live to the Ubuntu Quantal version (2012.20120611-4) and I suddenly got this warning:
PDF inclusion: multiple pdfs with page group included in a single page
This is a minimal example ...
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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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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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Adding a signature on an online job application
Nowadays many job applications are sent in digital form as PDF. We use of course LaTeX to create such. Usually you add a cover letter to your CV and credentials. If you sent this as print-out by ...
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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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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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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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How to include a PDF image into a PDFLaTeX document
I am generating a PDF file using pdflatex and need to include another PDF file. The reason is that I have a graphMl file which I exported from yEd graph editor to a PDF file, named sample.pdf. The TeX ...
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pgf-Tikz QR code generator
This question led to a new package:
qrcode
I am looking for a Tikz QR code generator. I am aware of pst-barcode as well as several "local" programs, a luatex solution and web services to do ...
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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 does one typeset a URL?
I'd like to insert a URL into this document. 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 or XeTeX?
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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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A guide on how to produce accessible PDF files?
First: I know that this has been asked before:
How can tagged PDFs be created that support Universal Accessibility and reflowing? (06/2010)
LaTeX accessibility (05/2011)
Accessibility issues (10/2012)...
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pdfTeX warning: "version allowed"
After including some figures (saved as .pdfs) in my LaTeX document with \includegraphics, I got the following warning:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex.exe (file ./figure/figure_1.pdf): PDF inclusion: ...
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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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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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The ^^ notation in various engines
Basically, how does the ^^^... notation work in LuaTeX and XeTeX, exactly?
In 8-bit TeX engines (recent TeX, eTeX, pdfTeX, at least), two consecutive identical catcode 7 characters (typically ^), ...
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What are the incompatibilities of pdftex, xetex and luatex?
[Please correct me if my statements are wrong]
TL;DR: pdftex, xetex and luatex exhibit different behaviour. What are these differences and why are they present.
I know of three engines, which ...
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Should I load microtype with pdflatex?
Should I always load the microtype package with pdflatex?
Could it produce unwanted effects a naive user (like me) might ignore?
Are there any known issues as for compatibility with other packages?
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Is there any way to include an animated GIF directly?
Is there any way to include an animated GIF directly in either PDFLaTeX or XeLaTeX? I realize the animate package can include animations in a PDF, but it doesn't support animated GIFs and you have to ...
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"Undefined control sequence" at beginning of any simple document
Very new to Tex. Trying to get the most basic doc to work. Not matter what I do I always get an "Undefined control sequence" at line 1 of my document. As of now, I am only trying to build the ...
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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 overcome Acrobat Reader error 131 with a pdfLaTeX doc?
I'm generating a PDF document with pdflatex (more precisely, latexmk invoked from TexMaker 3.4. My LaTeX install is TeXLive 20120719). I can read the document fine in Okular and Gmail's attachment ...
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Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) message
I made a mini page like below. It compiled without any error, however, I am getting following message in log:
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 104--109
I am trying to fix above ...
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How can I draw an arc from point A -> B on a 3D sphere in TikZ?
I'm basing myself on http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/spherical-and-cartesian-grids/ and now I need to add a arc from point P to Q. What I was able to get so far:
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1,...
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pdftex reduce PDF size: reduce image quality? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make the PDFs produced by pdflatex smaller?
I wrote my thesis in LaTeX and so far I always compiled with pdflatex. The thesis is 150 pages with many pictures and graphs....
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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 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 obtain and use the .bbl file in my tex document for ArXiv submission?
I am submitting my first article to ArXiv and in the instructions they specify I have to include the .bbl file. Their instructions are:
"We do not run BibTeX in the auto-TeXing procedure. If you use ...
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Abandon LaTeX2e for LaTeX3 or LuaTeX
I think my question is: Should I abandon pdflatex, possibly for xetex or context, and a TeX/LaTeX based macro writing approach, possibly for a LuaTeX or LaTeX3 based approach?
Possibly relevant to ...
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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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Is it possible to install only the 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
It's full installation ...
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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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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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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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How do you suppress specific warnings generated by pdflatex?
A lot of the times I get warnings like "hbox overfull" when a specific part of my document is meant to be extra wide on purpose --> so I am purposefully violating the default width threshold. Or to ...
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How to set security options for a 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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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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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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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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Why do PDF files produced by pdflatex not pass validation?
Why do simple PDF files compiled with pdflatex contain so many PDF errors?
The simplest example I can see is "Hello World!" that once compiled,
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
Hello ...
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What have been the most important changes to LaTeX in the last five years? (2011–2016)
I spent the last two years out of the loop and came looking for information about the recent advances within the (La)TeX ecosystem, basically to see whether the issues I found frustrating enough to ...