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Cropping some part of a `tikzpicture`
\documentclass[tikz, margin=3mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\clip (0,0) rectangle + (1.2,-1.2); % <added, size of rectangle is estimated
%...
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votes
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Crop an image in tikz using 2 points of reference and a height
Package adjustbox
Your preamble already contains package adjustbox. It provides the features you need for trimming and clipping
I am not sure, which spacing is needed around the image. The following ...
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votes
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Automatic page size to fit arbitrary content
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\hoffset=-1in
\voffset=-1in
\setbox0\hbox{\begin{tabular}{cccc}
...
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9
votes
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Cropping a Greek Letter in mathmode
The \clipbox command from the trimclip package does this.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{trimclip}
\newcommand{\crop}[1]{\clipbox*{0pt -.5ex {\width} .7ex}{#1}}
\begin{document}
\crop{ABCDefgh$...
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9
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How to print only first n items in itemization in ConTeXt?
Something like this could be easily done in Lua. The code below not only prints only the first five items from the list but also shuffles the items so that the order of the questions is randomized.
\...
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8
votes
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How to get correct PDF boxes (especially regarding bleeding and the TrimBox) in ConTeXt
Sorry for answering that question myself, but after having done some extensive research and with the help of @metafox (see the comments above, thank you very much!) I found out how to come pretty ...
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8
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\includegraphics: get the "scale" value of a figure whose size is expressed by "width"
All graphics are written to the PDF with a scale factor. When you specify a size the package just converts it to an appropriate scale factor. You can make \Gscale@box remember that scale factor for ...
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7
votes
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LuaLaTeX (0.95.0 TL-2016) has problem with crop and microtype packages being together
As Ulrike's comment suggests and luatex85 documentation explains, the problem is caused by changes in LuaTeX versions 0.85+, namely removing or renaming some pdfTeX extended primitives.
So the ...
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7
votes
Trim margins of the entire document (by command line)
Why don't you use crop package?!
As David Carlisle said you can also use geometry package, but I prefer crop in this case; for more details see the package's manual.
with setting width and height ...
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How to discard an area of a pdf page using pdfpages?
You can place the image (yes, the page is just an image) on a blank page using eso-pic and graphicx. Then you can overlay a white rectangular \rule to fill in over the area you don't want.
\...
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7
votes
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Cropping standalone documents using the beamer option
Using the beamer option normally also sets preview=false,crop=false,varwidth=false. The crop=false key can be reverted by passing it as an additional argument:
\documentclass[beamer,crop]{standalone}
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votes
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Problem of display in tikz
Your issue is that you are clipping to the triangle with the corners you specify, while the circle should extend outside that triangle. Even though you don't specify the third edge it is automatically ...
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votes
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Coloring a truncated/trimmed part of a character
The problem with rotating text and then rotating back is that the box surrounding the rotated text is bigger than the original box. So when you rotate back the new text is shifted. This is ...
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6
votes
IEEEtran, standalone, and XeLaTex: do not crop
The class tests for \pdfoutput. So you could fool it by defining it (and setting it to 1). But be aware that this could confuse other packages which test for pdfoutput too. Also IEEEtran is not meant ...
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\includegraphics: get the "scale" value of a figure whose size is expressed by "width"
You can keep the width= on the graphics and trim/clip separately so not affecting the scaling, see the last example here:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,adjustbox}
\begin{document}
\...
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6
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How to Crop an Image Precisely in the Shape of a Norman Window
\documentclass[border=12pt]{standalone}% xelatex or lualatex
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newsavebox\IBox
\savebox\IBox{\includegraphics[width=6cm,height=6cm]{example-image}}
\begin{...
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5
votes
Adding crop marks to legacy document
A non TeX solution is to "stamp" the legacy book with crop marks: convert the book to pdf, create a one page pdf with the crop marks in the right places (using TeX or a drawing software) and stamp the ...
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How to cut pdf at crop marks?
The pdfcrop utility is made to crop the white borders from a PDF.
pdfcrop in.pdf out.pdf
If you want to remove a little MORE so that the crop marks are also removed, then use the --margins option. ...
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pdfcrop content remains
Cropping in pdfcrop, options viewport/trim of \includegraphics, or the very most other tools for cropping is done by shrinking the dimensions of the visible area, smaller values for /MediaBox or /...
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votes
How can I crop included PDF documents?
If you check now the pdfpages manual, you will read:
Internally the command \includepdf makes use of the \includegraphics command from the graphicx (actually graphics) package. Hence it is possible ...
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5
votes
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5mm margin is not 5mm?
You should add 10mm to both dimensions.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[
showframe,
paperwidth=297mm,
paperheight=210mm,
margin=5mm,
nohead,
nofoot,
nomarginpar,
pdftex=false,...
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5
votes
Coloring a truncated/trimmed part of a character
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{trimclip,graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\def\normala{a}
\def\trima{%
\raisebox{0.02em}{\textcolor{red}{a}}\hskip-0.435em%
\rotatebox[origin=center]{25}{%
...
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votes
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What is the meaning of the commands "clip" and "trim" during image insertion?
The trim keyword affects the 'apparent size' of the image but does not in itself make any material invisible: anything outside of the trimmed border is simply overprinted with the surrounds. The clip ...
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5
votes
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How to Crop an Image Precisely in the Shape of a Norman Window
This uses TikZ. I assume the numbers were just for show.
\documentclass[border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{graphicx}
% Compiles with xelatex
\newsavebox\IBox
\savebox\IBox{\...
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votes
How do You print flowfram book?
Based on the Nicola answer I added bleeding for tabs, tabs text rotation, page numbers and also backcover:
\documentclass[a5paper,twoside,openany]{book}
% =======
%% LaTeX:
% penalty for breaking ...
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votes
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Adding crop marks to legacy document
I've ended up editing (a copy of) the legacy ps file and adding the code below just after %DVIPSSource. That was the advice given by @erreka in the comments. It's very nice that the output of dvips ...
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4
votes
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standalone class would not crop AMS equations properly (left and top margin space remains)
I think you need an output that does not span across multiple page then converting displayed equations to inline equations.
\documentclass[margin=1pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}...
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