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Add blank/empty page after every page automatically
I would use pdfpages to do this after the whole thesis is done, since you really have no need for a document with blank pages except to send to the printer, so it makes sense to keep the two documents ...
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How to print in white text over black background
\documentclass[a4, 12pt]{report}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{pagecolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\pagecolor{black}
\color{white}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\lipsum
\lipsum
\end{document}
This ...
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Is there a way to have coloured hyperref hyperlinks in the PDF, but have them print "as if" they were black?
Another option, using ocgx2 package:
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[ocgcolorlinks]{ocgx2}[2017/03/30]
Similar to hyperref's ocgcolorlinks, but with additional support for
dvipdfmx/xelatex
dvips
...
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17
votes
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Security Printing in pdflatex documents
I submit to you that this will not copy well. Elements used include:
two colors (plus black)
contrast of dark and light printing
diffraction-grate-like patterns
Here is the MWE. You can play with ...
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17
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Add blank/empty page after every page automatically
A solution with package atbegshi. It hooks into \shipout, the internal command to ship out a page. The hook (\AtBeginShipout{...} adds an empty page before the actual page except for the first.
\...
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14
votes
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How to add print link action of specific pages?
This requires JavaScript and perhaps A-Reader. The buttons themselves are not printed. All engines.
Basic example using print() method with parameters: No print dialog possible when specifying page ...
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13
votes
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Recommended margin and binding offset
I will explain the preamble you should use if you want to follow the French canon des ateliers for B5 paper.
The text width is a fraction of paperwidth – 3/4 for ordinary printing, 2/3 for neater ...
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Tikz and ctable incompatibility, gives error when printing
Package ctable loads package transparent. Both package transparent and tikz implements transparency. This needs access to a page resource, a dictionary ExtGState for the transparent values. Unhappily, ...
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How to invert a PDF using OCG/Layers?
This example produces two different versions of the readily typeset page box and places them on separate OCG layers.
Both layers are added to the radio button group "reverse video" to ensure ...
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11
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Overprinting spot colors
Both packages tikz and colorspace add an entry /ColorSpace to the page resources, from the generated PDF file:
11 0 obj % Page object
<<
/Type /Page
/Resources 10 0 R
...
>>
endobj
...
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10
votes
Automatically converting pictures to black-and-white
Thanks to John Kormylo, I found a simple solution: just add these two lines at the Document preamble:
\usepackage{xcolor}
\selectcolormodel{gray}
Note that this changes only the colors generated ...
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How can I place a 1 cm margin to a set pdf book (a6) to print
Let's create a bunch of random text:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=15mm,paper=a6paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\sloppy\lipsum[1-50]
\end{document}
We'll call this ...
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How to properly put two pages onto one using pdfjam?
To understand what's going on here , just add option --frame true (just for testing). E.g:
pdfjam 2019-224.pdf --nup 2x1 --suffix 2up --landscape --frame true --outfile temp.pdf
Now you see that the ...
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9
votes
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Making Tikz shapes/surfaces that don't appear in the PDF
You can put the holes on a separate OCG layer, that is not printed:
\documentclass[11pt,twoside,german]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[sfdefault,condensed,light]{roboto}...
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8
votes
Dashed line doesn't print (TikZ)
My job involves emailing a lot of PDFs to people to print out, so the "update your printer driver" solution doesn't really help me.
But what I've founded is that while dotted or dashed lines refuse ...
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votes
Using Pantone/spot colors and TikZ together
I've just written a new package for spot colors. It's named colorspace and as its name suggests the goal is to provide tools related to PDF color spaces. Currently you can define spot colors (...
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8
votes
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Providing alternate stroke styles for black and white printing in PDF
This can be done with PDF Layers (OCGs). In the following example, using Adobe Reader for viewing and printing, different versions of image files are seen in the viewer and on paper after printing:
\...
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7
votes
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Sphere shading in cmyk colours
Update
Since version 3.1.3, pgf now supports CMYK (and grayscale) shadings. Instead of \usepackage{pgf-cmykshadings}, just use \usepackage[cmyk]{xcolor} before loading tikz.
As you are aware, pgf ...
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votes
color differences in professional printing
As far as I know, the only reliable way to obtain exactly what you want on printing is to use the PANTONE colorspace, to which you have access through the spotcolor package under pdflatex, or ...
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7
votes
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Split A4 page in two, repeat header after half page height in ConteXt
The keyword that you are looking for is imposition or arranging. See the wiki or Section 3.6 of the reference manual.
The basic macro for imposition is \setuparranging[...]. Note that you need to run
...
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7
votes
Make a font "imperfect"
A note on the nature of these “imperfections”: we find a lot of pre-1923 books available online in scanned versions (such as on Google Books), read a lot of them on screen, get used to their ...
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What is the LuaTex equivalent to `\pdfcatalog{/ViewerPreferences<</PrintScaling/None>>}`
Use braces like with \pdfcatalog:
\pdfextension catalog{/ViewerPreferences<</PrintScaling/None>>}
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6
votes
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LaTeX created pdf is causing trouble while printing
I will assume for this answer that the complex figures are vector images that you have included with \includegraphics. I will further assume that these vector images have many drawn entities, for ...
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How to print in white text over black background
Let's assume you have the following 259 page document, littered with text and images:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,lipsum}
\newcounter{lipsumcntr}
\begin{document}
\loop\unless\...
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votes
color differences in professional printing
If you stick to pdftex or luatex (ie, not xetex), an alternative package is colorspace, which is simpler and more complete than spotcolor (caveat: I'm its author). It supports shades (ie, spot + ...
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votes
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Making fillable forms in LaTeX using TextField and CheckBox
You can change the height of a textfield with the height option or by redefining \DefaultHeightofText. But the minimal height of the field will always be the height of the surrounding box. In a ...
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6
votes
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Large symbols in PDF cannot be fully printed
The original PDF uses PDF version 1.6:
% file MIT14_126S16_bayesian.pdf
MIT14_126S16_bayesian.pdf: PDF document, version 1.6
You can convert this PDF via ps2pdf (from PDF version 1.6 to version 1.4 ...
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votes
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ConTeXt: Replace PDF Content During Printing
You can create layers which are only shown in the screen or print version of your document with the viewerlayer mechanism. Whether the content of the command appears in the printed output is ...
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