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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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{...
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Automatic adjust font size in tikz to avoid overlapping
I have two nodes, one on the left that grows to the right with longer texts and the second is positioned on the right and grows to the left.
Now, if the node texts are too long, the nodes overlap. I ...
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Scaling PGF plots and its font independently
I am a PhD student, quite new to the fantastic LaTeX world. Although I have written sevral documents already, I am still a beginner, and definitely not a programmer. I am using Python for my research, ...
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What is the logic that pgfplot set the picture's width?
If the code is:
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
\begin{axis}[
axis lines=middle,%axis equal,
ymin=-4,ymax=9,
xmin=-1.5, xmax=57,
xtick={0,1,...,7},
ytick={1,...,8},
xlabel=...
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Causal diagram: Aligning and downscaling shapes in TikZ
I need help to center X and Y outlined in red in the image attached. I also seek help to downscale the Y shape if possible.
Code below:
\documentclass[margin=10pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
\...
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Fit table into page
I have been trying to create a (simple) table via tablesgenerator with unsatisfying output so far. I would like to create the following table (Table 4. Summary of Selected....) but it wont fit into my ...
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Positioning an Image
I want to position an image between two sentences (itemize items).
How to scale an image to width / height of rest of the page left?
\item Client\_Wallet asks user to set default path for public key/...
