Questions tagged [pdflatex]

pdflatex is a command line utility used to create PDFs directly from LaTex source code.

pdflatex is a command line utility used to create PDF files directly from LaTeX source code.

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How can I escape LaTeX special characters inside django templates?

I have this django template which I use to generate LaTeX files \documentclass[11pt]{report} \begin{document} \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular}{lcr} \hline {% for col in head %} \textbf{ {{col}} } {% if not…
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Icelandic, utf8 and utf8x in LaTeX

First of all, what's the difference between utf8 and utf8x in \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} when used in LaTeX? Secondly, what packages are required when writing an article in Icelandic using LaTeX? I…
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Best way to print an iPython notebook

What is the best way to print an iPython notebook (.ipynb) that contains a lot of figures/plots, photos, and code that would appear with a horizontal scroll bar? I've tried converting them to HTML, slides, PDF, etc, but neither has produced a decent…
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Longtable in a knitr (PDF) document: using xtable (or kable)

I am new to knitr and I have had some very basic latex knowledge in the past, so I googled already hoping to find a solution that was already posted somewhere. However, I was not able to solve my problem. I am hoping someone will be kind enough to…
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pdflatex not found. pdflatex is needed for pdf output

I have installed my shiny server on Ubuntu. In addition I installed Texlive- full 2017 on the server as well. The problem is that downloading report from the shiny app on the server does not work (on my local computer is working !!!) the error is…
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Why does Tex/Latex not speed up in subsequent runs?

I really wonder, why even recent systems of Tex/Latex do not use any caching to speed up later runs. Every time that I fix a single comma*, calling Latex costs me about the same amount of time, because it needs to load and convert every single…
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latex includepdf after section in appendix

I want to add some pdf-pages in my appendix in latex using this command: \includepdf[pages=-,scale=.8,pagecommand={},linktodoc=true]{myPDF.pdf} Works fine so far, however it is always placed in a new page... in other words: I add \section{title 1}…
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Latex \tableofcontents command always shows blank Contents on first build

When I generate a .pdf file from a .tex file using pdflatex, only the "Contents" title is shown with no actual TOC. If I run pdflatex my.tex once more, it generates the TOC just fine. I can reproduce this simply by removing the .toc file. What I…
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How to put a caption on top of Latex table

I want to put a caption on top of the following table in Latex. \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ | l | l | l | l | l | l | l | l | l | p{5cm} |} \hline GT & MT & PT & ML & FP & FN & ID & FM & Rc & Pr \\ \hline abc & abc & abc & abc & abc & abc & abc…
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BibTeX You can't pop an empty literal stack

I know just the basic of latex, and I got an error inside the bibliography files iet.bst a bibliography file modified by IET and offered as latex files to write a paper to be published. The error is in @webpage bibliography entry type, as I already…
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Excluding a chapter from TOC

In my LaTeX document I've got a table of contents that is automatically generated by collecting everything that is of the form \chapter. However, I've got an acknowledgements chapter before the table of contents and I don't want it to be…
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Jupyter Notebook save to PDF without Code

This has been an ongoing issue for me, as I would love to use Jupyter Notebook to write my research reports, but have found it very difficult to export my Jupyter Notebooks to PDF without code and without large formatting errors. I am able to…
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How to export every TikZ image to a separate pdf file?

I'm creating some graphs for my thesis in a single .tex file using the TikZ package in LaTeX. I'm using the standalone document class so that my graphs are generated without whitespaces. How can I export every graph in a separate PDF file so I can…
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Pandoc for Windows: pdflatex not found

I receive the error: pdflatex not found when I try to convert a .tex or .md file to .pdf. I have downloaded MikTex and have the associated LaTex packages. These don't seem to include pdflatex, although I do see pdftex. Are these not interchangeable?…
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