Questions tagged [scaling]
{scaling} is about scaling document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be scaled.
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Scaling multiple subtables while keeping overall design of table
I have two tables that should be placed one under the other. For this I used \subtable and \bigskip. Since they both are quite long the total space that the table would use slightly exceeds the ...
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How to scale up the size of the quantum circuit (drawn using qasm2circ) such that the relative sizes of the elements are maintained?
I trying to draw a quantum circuit using xyqcirc.tex file from the qasm2circ package.
This is the slightly modified version of the xyqcirc.tex file which I am using:
\usepackage{graphicx}
\...
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How to scale entire intersection/union object including subscript?
In my document, my unions and intersection symbols are showing up a bit smaller than I'd like.
\bigcup_{\substack{s \in \mathbb R \\ s > 0}} B_s
Produces this:
So I tried using the scalerel ...
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How to rescale the whole chart?
Here is my code of the chart. I would like to rescale the whole chart so as to properly put it into my presentation slide. I don't know how to rescale it.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
...
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How to change the scale of main text without affecting math text or viceversa?
I'm using libertine package for the main text of my work and I load fourier package before libertine in orther to get the math text with the Utopia font just because I like it. Typing
\documentclass{...
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How to globally stretch text height, keeping the margin limits?
I am working with a designer that requires the height of the font type we are using to be stretched by a factor of 1.2. I have succeeded doing so using the adjustbox package, as described in this post:...
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Creating a Tikz-Picture with respect to paper width
Till now I just create a desired picture for example with QTikz or Tikz-EDT and pass the code afterwards to my document. To fit the picture to the width of the paper I use \resizebox.
However, if the ...
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tikz : Arrow heads does not scale with the rest of the picture
I'm trying to include a scaled graph into another picture (yes I need to use nested tikz pictures, but I can't find any better way), and the problem is that the arrow heads are not scaled properly, so ...
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Latex: Picture - scale/crop according to defined size - possible?
I'm facing a problem, for which I can't find a solution in any of the forums.
Maybe one of you guys can help...
For a project, I need one page with images, that all are there in a specific size and ...
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How TeX / LaTeX proportionally scales \frac, \sum super/subscripts, etc
Wondering what the scaling proportion is when you do above/below on \sum, nested fractions, or super/subscripts on something.
Wondering if it's the same in all of these different situations. It looks ...
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How to scale inline mathmode font
I would like to know how to scale the size of the text on the integral limits and also the powers in the code given below:
I used the command \DeclareMathSizes{10.95}{10}{7}{7} given here but there ...
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big double square brackets
I'm trying to get the double square brackets from the stmaryrd package printed big, following this post with no success.
\documentclass[xcolor={dvipsnames,table}, fleqn]{beamer}
\usefonttheme{...
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Store result of \ratio calculation for repeated use
I am using pdflatex with the beamer package to create a presentation template that is similar to the PowerPoint template provided by my company.
I want the company logo to have the same size in my ...
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How to set a global scale factor for all figures (for consistent sizing) with manual override?
In my PhD thesis in engineering, I expect to have approximately hundred plots which are vector graphics (in PDF format) created close to the final size (but not exactly).
I'd like to declare a global ...
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Block of text that surrounded by vertically spanning parentheses
For my beamer slides, I like to have a command that centers a block of text and surrounds it by parentheses whose vertical size grows as the number of lines in the text grows.
I currently have the ...
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getting the same height for two side by side pgfplot figures
I display two side by side pgfplots which dont have the same xmax and ymax.
In a first case with (xmin=-1,xmax=3,ymin=-1,ymax=11) the two plots have the same height (see EXAMPLE 1).
In a second case ...
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Why the primary and secondary X axes not in sync in position and scale?
Plotting some given data on the primary X axis, and calculated values on the secondary X asis, I noticed that secondary axis was shifted and had a different scale versus the primary.
\documentclass{...
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TikZ: How to correctly scale a node drawn by “circle through”?
Here's an MWE showing the challenge when I tried to use circle through with a scaling transformation (and transform shape):
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{through}
\...
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Why not scale elements that contain text
Why is it a bad idea to scale elements that contain text, for example tables, by using \resizebox, \scalebox and similar commands?
(I could not find an existing questions about this, but I often ...
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A long table with rotated texts?
Here is the code for the table below
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{kpfonts,pifont}
\usepackage{...
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Scale image to full page, keeping aspect ratio
I have an image and want to scale it to the full page size. I know, I can use \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{...} to scale an image to the full page width (or \rotatebox{90}{\includegraphics[...
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Scaling listings in beamer
This answer
scaling latex objects
advises to use \resizebox to scale Latex objects.
However, this approach fails when rescaling a listing in beamer:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{listings}
\...
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Make longtable (in landscape mode) wider than textwidth
Assuming I have a table going over several pages
\documentclass[DIV=8]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{booktabs,array,ragged2e,longtable}
\newcolumntype{...
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scaling latex objects
Imagine that I have a wide table that does not fit into page:
\begin{tabular}
Some very wide table
\end{tabular}
Can I scale this object without recurring to adjusting the font size?
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How can I reduce the size of an electric circuit in Circuitikz?
In fact, I have drawn an electric scheme using circuitikz package, but when I try to reduce the size of the circuit by using a scale of 0.5, the electric components stay in their size. Because I want ...
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TikZ - Resize, Externalize AND tikzsetnextfilename Figures
I have a document (two-column article) with several TikZ images, and I want to:
Scale the figures to half of the column width, without changing the text's font size
Externalize the figures inside the ...
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font size in math mode (for an exponentiated matrix)
Note: While I am interested in typesetting the Euler constant raised to the power of a matrix, I am more interested in understanding why the second version inserts a square dot, and why the third ...
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Knowing how much \resizebox scales
Is it possible to know how much a \resizebox scales something for further use in a \scalebox?
To clarify, take this example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=12cm]{geometry}
\...
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Scaling a tree (forest package)
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to scale the tree on the left because it is a little bit disproportionate compared to the table. I am looking for a code that can solve it. Can anyone help me? ...
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Making words in formula narrower
I am using this snippet:
\(PSE = 1- POFOD\)
which results in this:
Which is pretty stretched out. How do I make this narrower ?
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Using `\mathopen` and friends with `\middle`
I would like to take advantage of LaTeX's \left-\middle-\right mechanism to automatically scale several parentheses (or something similar) to be the same height, matching the height of the tallest ...
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Why does scaling not apply to node and how to correctly scale a node in TikZ? [duplicate]
The following code and its output shows that although the line drawn is scaled, the rectangle node is not scaled.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\section*{Without Scaling}...
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TikZ scale does not change the size of the arcs
I have drawn the following figure:
As you can see, the arcs are too big for the page. So, I try to scale the image using [scale=0.5].
This works for the straight line segments perfectly. However, ...
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Scaling an mdframed box
What is the trick for scaling an mdframed box?
If I comment out the \begin{MyEnv} and \end{MyEnv} in the \adjustbox, I get the scaling effect, but I want the entire mdframed box to be scaled?
Code:
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Little problem with xscale and tikzducks
I would like to mirror an image of tikzducks which has the book option.
Using xscale=1 works, but the title of the book is not well mirrored.
Does it exist a way to adjust it without doing it ...
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Reduce size \bigcup
I want to reduce size \bigcup_{n=1}^\infty? How can I do it?
I tried \newcommand*{\medcap}{\mathbin{\scalebox{0.75}{\ensuremath{\bigcap}}}
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Anki: Displayed size does not match specified size
In Anki, the sizes I specify in LaTeX encoding do not match those that are displayed.
MWE: Leaving the header and footer at the Anki default of
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\special{papersize=...
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Fixing intersecting arrows in commutative diagram
The following is the code for a commutative diagram with intersecting arrows
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[pdftex,pagebackref,letterpaper=true,colorlinks=true,pdfpagemode=none,urlcolor=...
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How can I scale the labels on a coordinate plane using tkz-euclide?
I have some code to make a coordinate plane that my students can use for graphing, but it takes up most of the page.
Working Code, but image is too large:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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{pgf-umlsd} size and width
I'm doing a good progress learning latex. However, I'm stuck with a problem. I'm unable to change the dimensions of the sequence diagram with code below: I have used \usepackage{pgf-umlsd} package. ...
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\xrightarrow not changing size with \scriptstyle and \scriptscriptstyle
Consider the following MWE.
\documentclass[fontsize=12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[libertine]{newtxmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
v\...
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How to prevent a node exceeding minimum size by making its contents scale-down if they are about to enlarge the node?
Is there a way to fit a text inside a node, without resizing the node, rather than fit a node around some text (which, of course, would resize the node)?
Output (first triangle is empty and is ...
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Specify \svgscale instead of \svgwidth for Inkscape pdf_tex
The image.pdf_tex documents created with Inkscape's PDF+LaTeX export use this code
\ifx\svgwidth\undefined%
\setlength{\unitlength}{293.02998953bp}%
\ifx\svgscale\undefined%
\relax%
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Table Re-scaling issue [content become unreadable] [duplicate]
I have below table with long values in cell, i want to wrap the text when it exceed let say certain length. i resize the table according to width of page but it makes the content too small to read. Is ...
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Composition of images
How can I fix this mess showed in the picture added below?
I mean, I'd like to place side by side both figures, with the box at the same level and the captions at the same level too.
Here is the ...
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Scalebox a maths letter
I am trying to rescale a letter in the Display. I tried to use the \scalebox{#}[#]{\mathscr{H}} (\mathscr{H} is the letter I am trying to rescale). But I think that only works for non-maths letters?
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Define the width of a logic puzzle dynamically
I want a PDF page to fit a logic puzzle completely (cropped), but I do not know the resulting width when beginning the block for the puzzle:
\documentclass[border=50px]{standalone}
\usepackage[german]...
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Getting narrower text within lstlistings?
I have limited horizontal space to list some code:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\definecolor{backcolour}{rgb}{0.95,0.95,0.92}
\lstdefinestyle{mystyle}{
...
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\left(\check h\right) vs. \left(\hat h\right)
The sizes of the parentheses in the example below do not scale nicely. Compiling the code
%\RequirePackage{fix-cm} % doesn't help.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{mleftright}
%\usepackage{...
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Image not appearing [closed]
I included the graphicx, and used the following code, like normal, to include an image.
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{...
