{printing} is about the physical process of printing *TeX documents, influencing their printing, and preparing documents for printing, e.g. with special settings for binding.
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Space in while printing but not viewing PDF [closed]
I am trying to write in a IEEETran class of latex. I have a very strange problem.
The minimum stripped code is as follows -
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\def \b {\beta~}
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How was TeX output visualised on screen, back in the day?
I've been using LaTeX for about two years; I'm only learning TeX now, to get a better understanding of the foundations.
In Chapter 6 : Running TeX of his TeXbook (more specifically, on page 23), ...
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Source code description in LaTeX
I have a problem concerning the creation of the name below a "Source code" (Listing) in LaTeX. When I have a figure I use:
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
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Is there a way to get two pages in one with LaTeX?
I would like to have my document compiled with two pages in one using LaTeX, like what you see when you choose to print two pages in one. As my pages are "portrait", I need the page to be shown in ...
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Perfect Print and Screen Quality
I'm going to finish my thesis which leads me to the wish of polishing my document at it's best.
Currently I'm running in some minor problems with my black values and I observed some table blurring ...
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If a letter is white on white background, does a printer see it?
In preparation for press printing, I would like to produce a version of a document for printing a glossy varnish layer, where all the text is "missing", but the images and other elements are at the ...
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How to divide document for black and color printing?
Most of my document is black text, but there is a color figure here and there. I would like to print the text on a black and white printer, and the figures on a color printer. I know i could just ...
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complexity package: disable banner
The complexity package uses the \typeout command to print a banner when the package is loaded.
What is the correct way to disable the banner (other than editing the source code of the package)?
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print \filelist to pdf
I know that there are many packages to modify the output of \listfiles.
However, I would like to print this list not to the log file but in a nice way to the pdf.
This makes sence for my template ...
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Saving A3 Landscape page to an A3 size pdf
I did manage to put an A3 size page within the A4 document. It contains a landscape figure. My problem is how to save document in pdf format such that the A3 page appear as it is, and not scale down ...
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Beamer: Visualize overlay borders in handout mode
I want to display the slide areas of a frame in handout mode.
A possible solution could look like this:
\begin{frame} % presentation mode
On slide 1 \\
\pause
On slide 2
\end{frame}
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Printing slides via lpr: How to get 4-up in landscape correctly?
If I have some pages of text, I can use lpr -o sides=one-sided -o landscape -o number-up=4 -o number-up-layout=btlr -o fitplot -P myprinter to print the text 4-up landscape. The layout is
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How to make the pdf output of better print quality?
The pdf output generated from by LaTeX is usually not as clear or black as the standard documents would usually be preferred.
The search so far suggests that either the fonts used or the Ghostscript ...
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printing beamer slides
I want to print handouts of a beamer presentation. I am using psnup to a create a copy with multiple slides per pages. I notice that there is a lot of empty space on the top of each slide and the ...
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What measure can we use by LaTeX to control the print budget
I found there are so much excellent answer to questions about how to product high quality typesetting output. But I wonder how to save ink with LaTeX. What we need to think about to manage cost. page ...
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Missing math symbols in print [closed]
I am writing a paper using some conference specific style and using TeX Live (pdflatex) as my distribution on Linux Mint 14 64. When I compile my document, on screen everything looks fine. When ...
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Creating a mask for printing glossy varnish over images
I'm interested in finding a better method for the following:
creating a black mask over the images on all pages
while removing (or covering with white) all the text and other elements
but still ...
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How to disappear text or figures by printing?
As you know, the option ocgcolorlinks of the hyperref package disables colors of all links presented in a PDF file by printing it from Adobe Reader (and by compiling with e.g. pdflatex); as a result, ...
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Make backrefs invisible in hardcopy
Is there a way to make bibliography back-references display and hyperlink in a PDF file but not print in a hard copy.
When I use
\usepackage[colorlinks=false,backref=page]{hyperref}
I get a red ...
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Is it possible to distinguish between the soft copy and the hard copy of a pdf?
I have a document with a significant difference between its hard-copy and soft-copy.
Something like some text-boxes which should be printed bold and big in the hard copy but should be hidden (or as ...
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Create PDF with images in black and white
I have a LaTeX document with several black and white, gray value, and color images. When creating a PDF with pdfLaTeX I get a PDF where I am not sure if the embedded black and white images are ...
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Handouts dont print properly
I have been unable to print handouts --- multiple slides per page with border around each. And it just does not work. I tried compiling with xelatex and latex (both almost default installs on Ubuntu ...
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Problems with pdfLaTeX because of transparencies and transfer curves
I'm about to finish my report for this semester. My document inlucdes a lot of pictures and schematics from different (external) sources. Now the printery (prepress) is complaining about ...
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Embedding printer settings in pdf
I want to produce a pdf that includes settings for a predefined profile, like the the printing on both side of a piece of paper, is that possible?
If a pdf does not provide this kind of feature, you ...
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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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Variability in darkness of printed fonts although all look black onscreen
I just received a proof copy of my book from CreateSpace and noticed different fonts printed to different opacity/darkness. I can actually see blank dots/pixels inside the large fonts used in section ...
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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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Gray scale output using pdflatex
I use colour diagrams (saved as pdf files) which I include in my LaTeX file. Is there any options in pdflatex to create a gray scale document or a pdf viewer where you can view the document in gray ...
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Is there any harm using hyperref for a document destined for printing?
I am using the hyperref package in my LaTeX document, and then using pdflatex to generate the pdf file.
Is there any harm in print quality, in using the hyperref package?
Or should I have two ...
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Why do the output fonts of Latex often appear fuzzy? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are Bitmap-Fonts used automatically?
When I look at the output of my LaTeX files, the fonts appear markedly more blurry than standard computer output.
Why is this? ...
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TeXworks 0.4 r857 // MikTex 2.9 64-bit [closed]
Typesetting with XeLaTeX gives an excellent PDF which when opened and printed from Adobe Reader mirrors on paper what one sees onscreen.
Printing the PDF from TeXworks reduces the print size by circa ...
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Offset in page numbers in pdf viewer due to roman numbering of frontmatter makes printing difficult
My PDF document generated with LaTeX has roman numbering for the frontmatter.
My problem is: if I want to print a certain range of pages, it is very difficult to select them, because my PDF Viewer ...
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Wrong kerning after \beta on printout [closed]
The following minimal example looks fine on my system:
\documentclass[]{report}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\Huge Test $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$ Test
\end{document}
The PDF looks like this:
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TikZ shadings and printing incompatibility
I would like to use some effects provided by the shadings library of tikz. More specifically, I am trying to use the ball and radial shadings (tikz 2.10 manual, p. 412-).
The resulting pdf looks ok ...
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No Bibliography is printed and citations shown bibtex key
I writing a document in LyX (2.0.5) with references. For displaying references I use biblatex.
(http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex). My latex environment is MiKTeX 2.9
Since I switched my Desktop, ...
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Multiple copies of short page on one sheet of paper
Suppose you have a short document (including a fancy header) which occupies only a small part of a DIN A4 page, like in this example:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
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How do I print a syntax-highlighted LaTeX source file?
I want to print an example source file so that I can study it. How do I print it with syntax highlighting? I'm currently using TeXShop in MacTeX; apparently it doesn't have this ability. What program ...
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Print a document with exam class so that it can be folded into a book [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Printing a book
Is there a method when printing on a5paper with exam class so that it comes out like a book?
Folding down the middle, and have it print the pages in ...
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Break PDF booklet into pages
I have a PDF with booklet-odered pages (like the one below). I would like to break these PDF A4 pages back into the original twice as many PDF A5 pages.
|-------| PDF page 1
| 8 1 |
|-------|
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Overriding printer scaling defaults from within LaTeX
Edited version of question
I have to produce a series of documents that need to be printed without scaling. The target users are likely to have low-level computer skills and will overlook ...
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Shift Odd Page in Duplex Print
This is more a printer problem, but I have no way to solve it on the printer side.
When printing a two sided document, the sides do not match vertically. That means for example the line of ...
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PDFs made with TeXLive won't print from Ubuntu 12.10 from one particular computer [closed]
I'm having a strange problem with one of my two Ubuntu 12.10 installs. One system works perfectly for creating PDFs with Texmaker and printing the PDFs from Document Viewer to networked printers. The ...
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) becomes 9 in print-out [closed]
I have the following expression \mathfrak{U}^{(\alpha,N)}. The pdf output generated with pdflatex is all right. But the printer turns the ) into a 9. Has probably something to do with the printer ...
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Handout is not the same as last displayed state of a frame [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to exclude certain slides from handout
OK. Here is the MWE that explains it all. When compiled as beamer (onscreen) option, the itemized items appear on every click. ...
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Fonts too thin when A4 scaled down to A5 in printing
In my document I am using the same settings as in the MWE below. I need copies of the document in A4 and A5. Both have to be identical so I cannot optimise the appearance of both by using a4paper for ...
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Printing A6 on A4 paper
Yesterday I encountered a problem with printing an A6 pdf document (which I created using LaTeX).
The Printing shop did not have A6 sheets, so they took the print out on an A4, which turned out ...
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How to repeat the page-contents on the same page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Multiple copies of short page on one sheet of paper
I am a school teacher. I have the following need. I have to distribute a large number of quizzes to about 200 ...
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Why do some vector graphics included into a document force rasterization of the whole page and subsequently ruin the look of the text in cups?
When I \includegraphics certain PDF files (for example this SVG converted with Inkscape), the output produced by LuaLaTeX or PDFLaTeX will be such that when the page containing the picture is printed ...
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Splitting page into four parts
I am trying to figure out how to split a page into four quadrants (2 rows and 2 columns) to model the time management matrix. I tried using longtable but the second row will only start after the ...
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How to deal with (probably bogus) errors from third party on my pdf? [closed]
I use a print-on-demand company (lulu.com) that has always been picky and inconsistent about the PDF files they accept. I'm giving them files produced by pdftex. They use various subcontractors to ...
