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{pstricks} does not work with the pdftex compiler. {pdftricks} does similar work on PDF documents with shell-escape on the web2c TeX compiler only.

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What's the best way to write over an image?

I'm trying to write text over an image like this exemple: I've read a lot about this topic but as I'm quite a beginner with Latex I'm lost (I'm using Overleaf with pdflatex btw). I did the exemple ...
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mouse over (highlight) acronyms using acronym package. is that possible?

Is it possible to highlight acronyms (mouse over shows the acronym definition) by using the acronym package \ac ....? In this post, there is a macro that was working somehow but by using the acro ...
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PDFTricks with standalone class

This is a PDFTricks question much more than a PSTricks question. I am trying to use PDFTricks to compile a PSTricks document with the standalone class. I believe I have followed the manual's ...
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PSTricks with standalone class and newpage or pagebreak

Can I use page breaks with the standalone class with PSTricks? Are there limitations? Or is there some mistake in my code? I have been nearly successful in running the code below with PSTricks and ...
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\resizebox and pdftricks: Argument of \next has an extra }

I used \resizebox to resize my tabular environments. Since I have to get rid of postscript stuff in order to use xelatex, I am experimenting with pdftricks. But it seems to be impossible to use \...
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Use of pdftricks with memoir

below is a (long, non-working) minimal example for use of pdftricks with the memoir document class. It is based directly on the (shorter, working) minimal example of use of pdftricks found at http://...
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Can you have hyperlinks to locations in different PDFs?

It's possible to hyperlink to another PDF file using Adobe Acrobat using the following LaTeX code: \href{run:target.pdf}{Click me!} If this is placed in source.pdf, then you can click on the ...
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Automagically externalising PSTricks and TikZ pictures [duplicate]

My thesis currently has a few PSTricks and TikZ pictures. It takes a while to compile over here Scott says he has some scripts to automate externalising TikZ pictures. I'm looking ideally for ...
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