{scaling} is about scaling document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be scaled.
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Scaling a multi-column TikZ/pgfplots groupplot to page width
I am trying to scale a pgfplots groupplot with multiple (and variable numbers of) subplots to match the \textwidth of a document.
What I found is that there seems to be no direct relationship between ...
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Scale down a array contained in an equation - beamer
I have an array inside an equation in a beamer presentation. I tried scaling it down using resizebox but it gives me error :
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:recursive}
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
...
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Fitting TikZ picture in beamer: Difference between using \resizebox and \adjustbox?
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
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table rescaling and subcaption package
I am placing tables side-by-side using the subcaption package in the following way:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{tabularx}
...
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votes
1answer
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Reduce float size to fit page
I've got a longish sidewaystable which currently is to large for its page. At least with \footnotesize it is. With \scriptsize it becomes too small, which looks strange and is hard to read.
Is there ...
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Extracting x, y coordinates of an arbitrary point in TiKZ while using yscale and xscale
Inspired by Extract x, y coordinate of an arbitrary point in TikZ, I am trying to use the x coordinate of a point to draw another element.
However, when I use the yscale and xscale commands, the ...
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Golden ratio typography in TeX
Chris Pearson makes a number of claims in his article Secret Symphony: The Ultimate Guide to Readable Web Typography, which I find fascinating, and I would like to know: are the formulas he proposes ...
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1answer
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Why could \usepackage{Sweave} be affecting my graphics scaling?
I'm using Sweave to produce a large, multi part academic thesis. I had neglected to specify \usepackage{Sweave} in my preamble, but everything was working fine until I added some verbatim output from ...
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How to scale a scheme in chemfig, using the figure environment
I am trying to scale a reaction scheme generated with chemfig to .9/textwidth. Below is my MWE.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{chemfig}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\begin{document}
...
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votes
2answers
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Scaling tikz-cd labels
I'd like to scale a custom symbol drawn in tikz, such that it's the same size as surrounding text in a tikz-cd diagram.
For example, in the following code I'd like the box to the left of A_2 to be ...
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Rescaling a math symbol?
I am trying to rescale a math symbol while using the amsbook package. At first I was using the relsize package, but it creates clashes with the AMS packages: Amsart with algorithm2e introduces ...
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Scaling the sieve of Eratosthenes in TikZ
Consider the following code, taken from Alain Matthes' answer here.
Code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\makeatletter
\pgfutil@ifundefined{pgfmath@function@isprime}{%
...
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Argument to \input or \include statement?
I produce a lot of plots in Matlab which I export to TikZ with matlab2tikz. In matlab2tikz I can specify the plot width and height, for instance. This works out quite nicely, but as I write my ...
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Center wide figure w.r.t. page instead of margins
I've seen similar threads with centering problems, but could not find the right solution to mine. I'm using the report class (onesided).
I have a float figure (object width=1.3\textwidth here, may ...
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1answer
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Scale Feynman Diagrams to Poster Size
I am creating a poster using beamerposter, and I would like to include Feynman diagrams generated using feynmp. However, the native scaling of feynmp is indented for letter-size documents, and is far ...
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votes
1answer
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Help with the command \binom
I want to write an expression of the form $\binom{a}{b}$.
I tried with the command \binom, but the result is too big, and then I tried \tbinom but it was too small, I want to know if there is another ...
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votes
1answer
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Flipping Transistors with Circuiktikz
I was wondering if there was any way to flip a transistor or similar node component around in the circuitikz package? For the bipoles it's fairly simple as you just reverse the start and end, but for ...
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Can zooming in PDFs recover original image size?
Say I create an image of 100x100 pixels in an area of 1x1 inch in my article.
Lets say, when viewing the pdf at 100% magnification on my monitor, this 1x1 inch area covers 50x50 screen pixels.
If I ...
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vote
1answer
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Why does transform canvas change where the caption is?
I have a fairly large tikz diagram here:
\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}
\usepackage[all,cmtip]{xy}
\usepackage{rotating, tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix,arrows}
\title{None}%
\begin{document}
...
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vote
1answer
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Footer scaling with scalebox
I use a pspicture to draw a electric diagram in one of my slides with beamer, and I've got a pause-command within the pspicture (to make thing appear).
I use \scalebox to make my picture enter the ...
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votes
2answers
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TikZ: different x, y scales but so that shapes maintain their aspects
I have some old pstricks code which I'm re-doing with TikZ. In my current picture, the x and y scales are different:
\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=1.8,yscale=4]
However, this has the problem that ...
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votes
1answer
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Tikz Scaling and Positioning
I cannot scale the first picture. scale=0.6 does not work.
Also I cannot vertically align the picture. I want top of text and top of figure are same. See figures in the following examples.
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PGFPlots: Logarithmic axes and scaling
I'm trying to plot some data where the X axis is logarithmic. The data runs from ~30 microseconds up to 10 milliseconds. It looks much cleaner to have the x-ticks looking like
{0.1 ms, 1 ms, 10 ms}
...
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votes
1answer
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How to automatically scale inline TikZ code in subscripts?
I want to use inline TikZ code to create my own subscript symbol. For example something like
$V_{\tikz{ \draw [|->] (0,0) -- (2ex,0); }}$
The problem is that it is not scaled. The length of the ...
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votes
2answers
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How to scale prooftree environment (bussproofs package)
I am using package bussproofs in order to draw sequent calculus style proofs.
The proofs are often lengthy and would like to scale them but I can not do it.
There is an uninformative error raised:
...
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Commands from graphics have no effect
I am learning LaTeX from a book, and I am using TeXnicCenter. The book has a chapter about the graphics package, so I download it and try the commands. But I find that when I use commands like ...
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votes
1answer
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Make two figures aligned at top
I am inserting two graphs (of different size) in the following way:
\begin{figure}[H]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{graph1.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{graph2.eps}
...
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votes
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Defining scalable “white curly brackets” {| and |} (⦃ and ⦄)
I would like to construct what Unicode calls "white curly brackets" that are in addition scalable. They look like ⦃ (≈{|) and ⦄ (≈|}) and have Unicode codepoints U+2983 and U+2984.
unicode-math has ...
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How to scale a dirtree inside a figure?
I drew a tree structure with \dirtree. This tree is located in a {figure} environment. It is possible to adjust the size of the figure?
With \includegraphics one can do it with scale. Is there a ...
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votes
2answers
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Really wide hat symbol
Is there any way to get a hat wider than widehat?
Why doesn't
\widehat{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}
really go over all of it?
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votes
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Resizing image and losing quality
I want to create a pdf document from images of different size and I fit each image to the text dimensions to include them in the document, with
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth, height=\textheight, ...
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Supertable landscape too wide [closed]
I have a complex table with 20 columns or so which is by far too large for a normal environment, so I have put it into a landscape environment. The table is also too long and has to be split over more ...
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votes
1answer
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Is it possible to scale an entire \begin{figure}?
I have a bunch of LaTeX-output from Gnuplot which I would really like to leave alone. Is there an easy way of scaling an entire figure?
Something like
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{...}
but just for ...
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votes
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Shrink table to fit on a page, or keep it as it is
I am using
\resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{% ... %}
to fit a table which might be too wide onto a page by scaling it down.
However, my problem is that if the table is smaller than the column width, it ...
4
votes
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Resize images to half of text width only if too big for page margin
I want the images I'm using that exceed the page's text width to be scaled down to half the text width. Images that aren't wider than the text width don't need to be scaled. I have one markdown ...
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About rescaling the image
I am writing a PHP to convert one-page HTML to LaTeX. I have all the code done but the image shown in the LaTeX (and the resulting PDF after pdflatex) looks too big. I figure the reason might be due ...
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votes
1answer
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Resize table and caption
I usually apply a \scalebox to resize things, but I always stumble upon the fact that I cannot simply include a \caption{...} in the \scalebox.
As an alternative to \scalebox, I found I may use ...
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votes
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Macro for \textwidth, \textheight and keepaspectratio
I'm using many pictures within my beamer presentation. Somehow I'm tired of writing:
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth,height=0.8\textheight,keepaspectratio]{source}
...
4
votes
1answer
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\resizebox shifts tikzpicture up when in a subfloat environment
Why when I try to re-scale a tikz figure using \resizebox the baseline is shifted up (regardless of how small the scale factor is), and two horizontal floats are not aligned properly.
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What is truecm?
In examples found around the web, some people specify lengths such as width=5truecm with \includegraphics or the geometry package. How is this different from regular 5cm?
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Wrong place for hyperref link in scaled tikz picture
I have a TikZ picture with a node containing a minipage with an itemize environment; each item is a hyperref to other sections of the document.
When scaling the image (for example with ...
4
votes
1answer
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Fit the height of the chapter number to n-times the height of the chapter name
I would to get the chapter number tall n-times the chapter name in order to have a better proportion between the two elements. Why I get errors and how can I fix that behaviour?
I thought something ...
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Why can't I scale my image?
I'm using the graphics package and I can insert my graphic into the document without any difficulty, apart from the fact that it's huge!
I am using the following command:
\documentclass{article}
...
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Includegraphics maximum width
With \includegraphics I can give the width of the resulting image (which would be scaled).
How can I give a maximum width of the image? That is, if the original is smaller than X, I'd like to keep ...
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votes
1answer
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Scaling a (beamer)poster output
I use beamerposter with pdfLateX. I normally make the poster for A0 page size but need to reduce the size of (scale) the poster to a specific width to fit a smaller size frame used for showing posters ...
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vote
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How can I write a long equation in multi line scaled to text width?
I want to write a long equation over several lines, but result looks highly irregular.
How can write this equation better, preferably with all equation occupying the same wide?
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votes
1answer
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How do I rescale cropped material with pdfcrop
I'm running pdfcrop (version 1.31) on Mac OSX. From what I read on pdfcrop page I should be able to rescale the size of the final document. The suggested approach is
pdfcrop infile.pdf letter ...
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votes
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Set variable with mathematical expression
I need to do something like the following,
\includegraphics[width=(\textwidth - 50mm)/2]{myfig.eps}
What keywords can I use to search for doing this operation? Everything I've searched for was ...
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Set standard default scaling of \includegraphics
I am using Sphinx and the plantuml package to include UML diagrams.
The plantuml package for Sphinx generates the following LaTeX code:
\includegraphics{%s}
Anyways - the diagrams are to big, so ...
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Change default width of images in graphicx package
Is it possible to change the default width of an image included via \includegraphics (from the graphicx package) to a custom value, for example \linewidth.
So I want something like this:
...
