{scaling} is about scaling document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be scaled.
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How to define a figure size so that it consumes the rest of a page?
Sometimes I don't need to have a specific picture size, but for layout reasons I would like to scale the image so that the rest of the page is filled. How can I achieve that?
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How to superimpose LaTeX on a picture?
I know how to add a picture to my LaTeX file, e.g. \includegraphics[width=7cm]{curve.pdf}. What I'd now like to do is place some latex symbols onto the picture. Like a \gamma to name a curve. I do not ...
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pgfplots: how can I scale to text width?
This question led to a new package:
tikzscale
When I try to scale a plot with: width=\textwidth there is some horizontal space between the
start/end of the plot and the start/end of the ...
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How to scale a tikzpicture to \textwidth
I would like to scale my tikzpicture to exactly (or a proportion of) the \textwidth
Of course I could play with the [scale=0.5] option until I found the right value, but I assume there must be an ...
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Scale (resize) large images (graphics) that exceed page margins
Background
A large number of screen captures have been scaled 300% at 288dpi. They appear correctly when embedded in OpenOffice, but not LyX.
Problem
Images that do not extend beyond the margins ...
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how to scale math font only
I am trying to mimic our institute's PPt-template for presentation foils using the beamer-class. The corporate quidelines prescribe the use of Helvetica as the main font. However, package helvet does ...
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How to scale entire document including Maths symbols?
I'm trying to make a cheat-sheet for my Math class. I wonder is there a way to scale the entire document so that I can fit more formulas and theorems into it. It doesn't need to be super tiny though. ...
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Shrink figure only when necessary?
I'm writing a report where I have generated and included several TikZ pictures which I also want to use in my beamer presentation. However, some of the pictures (but not all) which fit in the report ...
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Scale image to page width?
I use
\inclugraphics[scale=TRYING TO GUESS THE NUMBER FOR PAGE WIDTH]{...}
but I find this errorsome, is there some ready flag to set the image to page width? I usually use PNG and JPG photos.
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How to scale Tikz drawings and text together?
I'm trying to build a diagram (a logo, actually) that I can scale easily through a parameter. I'd like to be able to scale both drawing and fonts through a single parameter.
Here's my current MWE, ...
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Is there a way to slightly shrink a table, including font size, to fit within the column boundaries?
I have a table that is just a little too wide for a 3.33" column. Is there a way to simply shrink the table a little to make it fit? I'm OK if the 10pt font becomes 9pt-something. Here is an example.
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Scale included graphics to the higher ratio instead of the lower for given width, height
I would like to scale an included graphics keeping its aspect ratio. Using
\includegraphics[width=<my width>,height=<my height>,keepaspectratio]{file.jpg}
scaling naturally takes place, ...
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How to fit a large figure to page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best figure size adjustment when dealing with different image sizes
Given: a large figure, whose height:width ratio is unknown.
Todo: Include this fig in LaTeX, such ...
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Scale tikzpicture to the remaining height of a beamer frame
Often in a frame (of beamer), I have some texts on the top and a resized tikzpicture on the bottom:
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{...}
some texts
...
some texts
\[\resizebox{!}{???}{
\begin{tikzpicture}
...
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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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How to scale a tikzpicture including texts?
It seems that the scale option scales only the length of lines, but not the size of texts. For instance, 1 and true and not scaled in the following code.
\begin{tikzpicture}[thick, scale=0.6]
\draw ...
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Scaling tikz mindmaps within a beamer frame
I recently discovered tikz and I fell in love with it! However, I am having some annoying issues when I try to include a tikz mindmap in beamer. Problem is that I can't manage to have the mindmap ...
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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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Alignment and scaling of nested subfigures
Update: Read this first
I originally asked this question to find out how I would show a large image with magnified portions of the same image next to it. I was doing this by manually cropping copies ...
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Making text narrow
I'm using \textlsfrom the microtype package to increase space between letters, but I can't find a command that will make a text look narrow (or maybe a very narrow serif font?).
What is the best way ...
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\includegraphics forces new page
When I include a PDF diagram, it forces a new page, so I have one blank page and then this diagram, can somebody help me please? I need to remove that blank page.
My document looks like this
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How to include picture in original size into document page on center?
I have a picture that I'd like to include in the center of the page. I don't want the picture to scale. So I tried this (among a lot of other variations):
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
...
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Continuously-sizable fonts?
Why are we stuck with a finite number of font sizes in LaTeX? Modern fonts are fully vector-based and scalable - why can't LaTeX do this? Or maybe it can, and I just don't know how.
Also see the ...
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Getting a larger font (NOT \fontsize)?
I am trying to get some playing cards made with the help of the allrunes package.
However, the package "only" comes with fonts up to 35pt installed. If I set \fontsize to something larger, pdflatex ...
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Resize large images that exceed page margin whilst respecting existing scale
The solution posted here Scale (resize) large images (graphics) that exceed page margins works great. Just to summarise, Dave Jarvis suggested
\usepackage{graphicx}
% Determine if the image is too ...
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Scaling a pst-3dplot to fit a Beamer frame
I'm new to pstricks. I was looking for an automatic way of resizing a plot.
I'm trying to fit a 3d plot, generated using pst-3dplot, into a beamer frame. However, I'm not able to make it look good ...
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About big parenthesis larger than Bigg
Do any one know how to type a very big parenthesis in LaTeX. Since the formula is very big, I used multline environment, in one line, there are many pair of parenthesis by using \left and \right which ...
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Find optimal figure size to fit two images on one page
I often encounter a situation where I would like to fit two or three figures on one page.
I define my figures as follows:
\begin{figure}[htpb]
\centering
...
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How can I progressively scale letters?
How can I reproduce the figure below?
The figure is from an old Knuth paper, which you can get at http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~millerpd/docs/501_Winter08/Knuth79.pdf (page 364)
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How to properly scale a TikZ/PGF picture which has a `\begin{axis}…\end{axis}`
Applying a scale option to a TikZ picture works great. It keeps the text the proper size and scales everything else. I would like to have the same behavior when using a \begin{axis}...\end{axis}.
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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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scaling a table to fit an entire page
I used Excel2Latex to pump out some tables from my excel file. All works fine but heres the output picture:
I want the table to be streched accross the entire page. Is this possible and if so how ...
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Scale figure to a percentage of \textwidth
I would like to change my figure's width to a precentage of my \textwidth:
\textwidth /2 would scale to 50% of the \textwidth.
What is the proper syntax (if any) to do this ?
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How determine slope of straight line (with auto scale of axis) in PGF plots
I want to allow automatic scaling of the axis (so don't want to set axis equal=true), and be able to place a label on a line at a manually chosen point along the line. Of course if axis equal=true, ...
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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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pdflatex: fit-page-to-contents or scale-contents-to-fit-page
I have a problem which can be solved one of two ways:
Typeset a given chunk of TeX in an "infinitely wide" space, then scale the result so that its width is the width of the page.
Typeset a given ...
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Including a PDF page in latex with pdfpages without scaling
I am writing a document in LaTeX and I'm trying to include a frontpage in PDF (aptly called "Frontpage.pdf") the document, to be compiled with Pdflatex.
I tried to include it with the pdfpages ...
9
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pgfplots axis scaling
Is it possible to define in pgfplots that y should correspond to Y cm in my plot?
I know how to do this in tkz-fct, so let me add an tkz-fct example to make more clear what I want:
...
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Beamer with Tikzpicture. How to change scale of picture and distance between lines of nodes?
I am a beginner in LaTeX, trying to convert a presentation in beamer. I am experiencing difficulties with the scale option that does not seem to work, and I cound not find a way to reduce slightly ...
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beamer: Scaling document icons in the bibliography
Bibliographies can be typeset in a smaller font size by redefining the \bibfont macro (if one uses natbib or biblatex) or by simply appending the definition of \thebibliography. This also works with ...
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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 ...
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PNG: importing it with latex | pdflatex | xelatex
I never understood how (pdf)latex determines the size of imported bitmaps, but many years ago I experimentally elaborated simple rule that allowed me to get same output by running either latex or ...
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Scale TikZ figure to linewidth when relative positioning used
This question is a follow-up to How to scale a tikzpicture to \textwidth.
Unfortunately I haven't been a member long enough to post comments in that thread to ask for clarification.
I have some ...
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How to fake mid-caps with LaTeX? (I.e. How to stretch characters of a font?)
Background
As discussed in this question, one would often like to use small caps for abbreviations, however, mixed case acronyms such as OpenMP look rather odd (see example 2 below):
The problem ...
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Redefine \textsc for slightly large small caps
In most fonts, the small caps are as tall as the x-height, but this looks weird when you want to tack an 's' onto the end of an abbreviation to make it plural (discussed in depth on typophile).
I can ...
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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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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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How to fit a wide table
I see that many people have already asked the same question, but unfortunately I can't make it work for me at the moment. So, once again, how can I centre and fit tables larger than that to my report? ...
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Matlab to pdflatex with text properties
I know that this might be more a detail rather than a serious problem but I've already Googled it like crazy and I can't find the solution.
Is it possible to achieve a MATLAB plot in pdflatex with ...
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What are the guidelines for making TikZ pictures properly scalable?
I've just started using TikZ for rendering figures for my Master thesis. I've made a few and they look good in the report. But when I tried using them in my presentation slides, some were too small ...
