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How to decide whether a document actually uses pstricks?
A document that gives no error if you comment out the \usepackage is highly unlikely to be using pstricks in any essential way but...
\documentclass[letterpaper]{llncs}
\pagestyle{empty}
\showoutput
%\...
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Switching paper size in amsart
This means that you have the site default set to US Letter, [a4paper] sets the text block for typesetting to A4 but can not (or at least does not) set the pdf media size until it knows which back end ...
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How to reorder included pdf-pages for bulk cutting ? [for paper saving]
There is booklet.tex macro in TeXlive (from olsak-misc package). Usage: create a document with two lines:
\def\document{filename} % filename.pdf will be processed
\input booklet
and run pdftex with ...
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Beamer presentation with 16:9 aspect ratio and same height as 4:3 aspect ratio?
With a couple of exceptions, all aspect ratios will produce frames of the same height. They will only differ in the width of the frame.
Unfortunately the 169 aspect ratio is such a special case, but ...
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How to place tikz elements within a custom paper geometry to reach all four corners, with margins
A couple of things:
You can use the nodes current page.north wast ... current page.south west to draw the rectangles with TikZ. These are exactly at the corners, so if you want to respect the margins ...
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Is there a way to change papersize in beamer?
After a lot of work with changing the paper size of Beamer presentations, I decided to post here and make my solution available to others.
The underlying problem is as follows: Beamer uses a standard ...
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A general way to make Lined Background independent to papersize/orientation
You could use the grid operation from TikZ (the negative (or zero) value for xstep will remove the vertical lines, so you just get your horizontal rules):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
%\...
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A general way to make Lined Background independent to papersize/orientation
For two parameters where #1 stands for the distance between the first horizontal line to the top of the page and #2 for the minimum distance to the bottom you can use define \mygraphpaper as such
\...
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How to fit a table with a very long column into a 2 column format?
I take it that it may be necessary to allow automatic line breaking in both columns, and not just in the column that contains more material. Here's a suggestion: Load the tabularx and ragged2e ...
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How to fit a table with a very long column into a 2 column format?
You can use tabularx.
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table*}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{Xl}
\textbf{Name} & \textbf{Method} \\
Reference, ...
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Remove Left and Right margin in order to get a bigger table
As already explained in a comment, you can set \LTleft and \LTright to -1in to extend the longtable into the left and right margin, that you've set using margin=1in for package geometry:
\...
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Discrepancy between typearea defaults for different paper sizes
I don't think that the typearea package has ever considered letter paper. And this is indeed the content of the information given (predefined DIV values do not exist). Why 7 is chosen is beyond my ...
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How to fit a table into 2 columns in the format of a two colmns paper?
Here's an example of a table that spans both columns. This is done by table* environment. Since you have also added stfloats, starred floats gain an additional argument [b], which moves them to the ...
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Complaint on paper size option
\documentclass[b5paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[body={13cm,18cm}]{geometry}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\the\paperwidth \the\paperheight
\end{document}
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How to place tikz elements within a custom paper geometry to reach all four corners, with margins
Oh, almost the same answer as of Juan Castaño ...
Edit:
but I wasn't aware that I was late for 13 minutes (apparently was my internet congesting, since i didn't see answer before my loading ...). Now ...
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Changing default paper size for TeX Live
On POP! OS 22.04, this is what finally worked for me to change the paper size. Ubuntu and Debian should be the same.
First make sure the texlive-extra-utils package is installed. This package includes ...
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Is there a way to change papersize in beamer?
You can use the blowup package:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usepackage{blowup}
\blowUp{target=a4,landscape}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{title}
...
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