Questions tagged [xelatex]

XeLaTeX is LaTeX on top of a modified TeX engine for added Unicode and OpenType support

LaTeX macro package running with XeTex as the underlying engine (which extends TeX with rich Unicode and OpenType facilities), offering in particular new font selection mechanisms (fontspec package) and multilingual typesetting (polyglossia). More information is available at wikipedia.

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Import PDF file into XeLaTeX gives "pdf_link_obj(): passed invalid object" error

I'm trying to import a PDF into a XeLaTeX using \includepdf{xyz.pdf}. The file xyz.pdf is a scan created by a Xerox 5755 machine, and PDF version 1.3. The error I get is: ** WARNING ** No valid name object found. ** WARNING ** Could not find…
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Can the XeLaTeX builder be used with Sphinx?

Although the end-problem that this would solve is a TeX one (installing a new font for PDF output), this particular solution that I'm looking for is a Sphinx issue. Sphinx uses standard LaTeX when making PDFs, which is fine so far, but I need to…
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"Undefined control sequence. \file_get:nnN" error while compiling markdown file to pdf using pandoc and xelatex

I am trying to compile a Markdown file to PDF using pandoc and xelatex. The command I employed is like this: pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex pantest.md -o pantest.pdf The error information comes as follows: Error producing PDF. ! Undefined control…
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TikZ externalize MD5 sum error with XeLaTeX

I've got some trouble with XeLaTeX and TikZ-externalize. I use the following setup. \usetikzlibrary{external} …
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Emoji don't knit to PDF

If I run cat("\U001F615") on the command line in RStudio on my Mac, it shows the emoji. But if I knit it (Rmd) into a pdf, I get this error message: ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX. See the inputenc…
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“Font shape undefined” with LaTeX - twentysecondcv.cls

I am doing my CV with twentysecondcv.cls with Texlive2016 but I have a problem with the font shape. It shows a default font which is not so clear and doesn't recognizeenter code here ClearSan.sty wich is declare in the .cls file as a provide…
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Using \parindent and \parskip with \paragraph{} has no effect

I'm creating documents using the memoir class in XeLaTeX. I'm having trouble creating proper paragraph presentation, and in particular my when I create paragraphs with \paragraph{}lorem ipsum LaTeX ignores the \parskip and \parindent settings. For…
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Sublime text build system - how to auto open pdfs

I followed instructions provided here(How to create a shortcut for user's build system in Sublime Text?) to compile latex documents in xelatex, and on top of that I would also like it to automatically open pdf after compiling just like with latexmk,…
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Is it possible to change the column width using kable without kableExtra?

Continue from this question. I want to modify the result's column width, but it can't be done without using the kableExtra. If I load the kableExtra package, the image will become text format. Here's the code: --- title: "Untitled" output: …
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Getting vim-latex to compile using xelatex

Up until recently, my primary device ran Ubuntu (15.x) with VIM (7.x), TeX Live (2016), and vim-latex. Since all my files call fontspec, my ~/.vimrc contained these lines: filetype plugin on let g:tex_flavor='latex' let g:Tex_CompileRule_pdf =…
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titling.sty error in rmarkdown

I am getting a very annoying error when I try to run rmarkdown docs knitting to pdf from mac output file: Untitled2.knit.md ! LaTeX Error: File `titling.sty' not found. Does anyone know a simple solution? I think what caused it was trying to…
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Can I write cls files in LaTeX instead of TeX?

I have some initialization code in a XeLaTeX file which I would like to put into a separate file so that I can reuse it in future texts. What is the fastest way to convert my XeLaTeX code to a LaTeX class file?
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RStudio on Windows not using XeLaTeX

I'm using RStudio 0.99.896 on Windows 10. I am trying to use knitr to convert a RMarkdown file to PDF using the XeLaTex engine. I have set the Global Options and the Project Options in RStudio to build with XeLaTex You can see that I have selected…
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Setting width or height for graphics in beamer only works with .png?

This is a problem I had with TexLive 2013 and 2014; working on Mac OS X, 10.8. I have to use xelatex or lualatex because of East Asian fonts. When using picture files with \includegraphics[settings-for-scaling]{filename}, I can only use .png files…
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What's the best combination of LaTex writing in Chinese?

someone rcommend the xelatex, but others insist on the latex+CJK, which one is prefer? thanks.
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