{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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Printing/typesetting two A4 pages from a single-page A3 document in TikZ
I'm currently working on a huge graph using a A3 format, with the landscape option. I don't usually work on A3 pages, but this is not a mistake. I purposefully chose this format because it's made of ...
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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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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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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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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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A grid of images to fill A4 -paper for economic printing with some space for scissors
I want to print a A4 paper full of the same QR image. I want more elegant way to this answer here, yes I can get it working like that but I want to leave just enough space for scissors and no space ...
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How can I have text colored on screen and black on printing?
I have a document with colored hyperlinks, using the options of the hyperref package.
I also have lots of tikz-figures that use various shades of gray and occasionally some colors.
The way my ...
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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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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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What is bleed, and how do I achieve it?
I am going to print business cards that I've created using LaTeX, and when I contacted the print company and asked what they needed for the print, they answered that they needed a "pdf with the ...
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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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Exclude images for printing pdf
I have a document that has images that are very, very dark. As such, they should not be printed when the user goes to print. Somebody I'm working with loves to print, and they use a lot of toner ...
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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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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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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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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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Letter 'e', when printed in the default TeX font, missing a stroke
I often see printed LaTeX documents where the horizontal stroke of the 'e' is invisible -- even among different printers, documents, and people who print them. The image below shows it occurring on ...
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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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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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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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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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Create plain CSV list of pages with/without figures
I'm wondering if there's an easy way to have LaTeX output two lists:
of pages containing and
of pages not containing figures and/or other color objects.
I'd like to print color pages on a color ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Printing a double-sided A5 document on A4 paper
I have a doubled-sided A5 landscape document with the following page order:
As my printer supports only A4 paper, I want to print two of these pages on one portrait A4 paper so that I can cut it 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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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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Just save colored pages of a document?
How can I just save the colored pages of a document? I want to print the colored pages on another printer...
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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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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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What paper dimensions to use for printing with the octavo class?
I am working on a fiction novel. I want to print this in a comfortable size for carrying and reading. I will have the pages printed, cut to size, glued together, with heavy paper added to the outside ...
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Front-end for pdfpages
I use following .tex file very much for printing books, booklets, etc
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages={4-8},nup=1x2,frame,landscape]{xyz.pdf}
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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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Glossaries: Make a glossary entry recognizable in printing
How do you make it visible to the reader that the printed word/term is an entry in the glossary? In my PDF on the computer, I just see it because I use the hyperref package and there's a red box ...
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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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Print from TeX to labels that have odd-sized pages
Is it possible to generate PDF files in TeX that can be printed to odd-format printers, e.g. the DYMO LabelWriter 450? This label maker prints to a roll of labels with page/label sizes such as, e.g. ...
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Commercial stock printing with LaTeX (prefer memoir, if possible)
In paragraph 2 of Section 2.2 of texdoc memoir, I quote
... with one page per piece of stock. In commercial printing the stock material is much larger with several pages being printed on each ...
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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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Problem to print a pdf [closed]
The problem appears with two Lexmark printers. A friend compiled this example of my package tkz-euclide:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
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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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