I'm about to submit an article for publication, and I need to color some label text that I'm overlaying on my figures with the overpic package/environment (some labels need to be white to be readable on some figures). Problem is, I just noticed the submission guidelines say no color packages, so the
\usepackage[pdftex]{color}
I had been using is right out. Is there a way to get a specific string (really just single characters) colored white without a color package?
\usepackage[pdftex]{color}
is wrong anyway. First you should use the modernxcolor
package and second it is not recommended to force the output driver (pdftex
). Modern packages/installations are very able to detect the correct driver and you actually force errors (the wrong way) if anyone tries to compile the document with a different LaTeX compiler (DVI mode,xelatex
, etc.).standalone
to produce standalone images which usexcolor
and turn these into a PNG. This is actually supported by this class directly. See the v1.0 manual for more information.