{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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How do I insert an image in LaTeX so it looks good on print?
LaTeX documents print beautifully, but images often looks "ugly", "pixelated" or "low-res" compared to the text. By images I don't mean photos, which I rarely use, but rather diagrams, charts and ...
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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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Using opacity in TikZ makes the entire page become “more coarse” when printed
In my document, some of the figures uses opacity. In the PDF viewer, everything looks fine, but when I print the document, the pages in which these figures appear become more "coarse"; the text looks ...
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Is there a way to have coloured hyperref hyperlinks in the PDF, but have them print “as if” they were black?
I like having my hyperref hyperlinks a different colour, so it's obvious that they are links. But when I print a copy of the PDF, I don't want the links to be coloured, because you can't click them, ...
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Printing a book
I would create a document using latex, if I want to print the document and make a book out of it, how should I do it?
If my document has 50 pages, and following requirements :
Double side printing
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Having a LaTeX PDF display the date the document was printed, not compiled…
I have been looking around for quite some time trying to find a way for a PDF (created using XeTeX) to adjust the date accordingly by the date it was printed - not compiled. I am familiar with \date, ...
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Four smaller pages in one page
I would like to style my document in such a way that the page is divided into four equal parts and then the text is printed in those pages: it is similar to twocolumn but I also want to have, say two ...
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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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Booklets in memoir class
I was just reading this question about using pdfpages to create twoup effects in memoir. This worked great for me, but I am wondering how I can get the page order to set up a booklet, so that it can ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Recommended color for hyperlinks in a CV
I'm using the hyperref package, and I'm curious if there is a recommended color for hyperlinks. At the moment I am using urlcolor=BlueViolet which looks great onscreen, but when printed in b&w it ...
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Place two A5 pages on A4 using memoir
I was trying ConTeXt out and found out about imposition. I'm specifically interested in the 2UP schema, so I can just print on a regular A4 and trim.
I have a book typeset using LaTeX and memoir. ...
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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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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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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 sort the order of pages so that they can be printed in a folded book?
I am using ConTeXt to print a book. Each page is A5, but the print store can only print on A4 paper, so they print 2 pages on each side of the A4 paper. I used this code to specify the layout:
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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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How to make a switch for print vs. display versions of a document with respect to links/URLs
I want the print version of a document have links or URLs written out but the online version have the abbreviated tag/name. So the switch, set at the beginning, will choose between two alternatives, ...
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\includepdf changes left and right pages
I've followed advice at "How to start new chapters on the right hand side" and found that including as title page, one PDF page is braking left&right orientation:
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“This page was left intionally blank” on center of page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make pages which were “intentionally left blank”?
Assuming I am forcing amount of pages to be even using Raphink's solution : ...
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Typeset content of a PDF text-field without recompilation
With respect to preparing a PDF for printing:
Is it possible to provide a text-field in PDF where I can type something and it should be typeset for printing?
A resume for example :
Most of the ...
