I have a small drawing in Inkscape and I want to embed it in a LaTeX document which I compile using pdftex. pdftex seem to have an oddity of not accepting .eps. infact if what I understood is correct the only vector graphics format it accepts is pdf. When I save my drawing in Inkscape as pdf then what I get is a pdf with a full page with...
I just created a LaTeX document and compile it to a PDF using pdftex. Every time I make a reference using the \ref command, the reference is put on a new line. Why does this happen and how do I prevent this? ...
I have a bunch of code in a lstlisting environment. How can I highlight (color background) just a particular chunk of code within the environment? ...
As far as I understand it (a few days of research here and there), there are two major TeX engines: pdfTeX and XeTeX. pdfTeX is the "standard", having been around since the early 1990s, renders straight to PDF, and improves on some minor formatting issues with original TeX. XeTeX, on the other hand, also outputs PDF, can use any system ...
Hello, I have a LaTeX text document that compiles fine with the current version of pdflatex on my home computer. I've made minor edits to the body of the document. I'm trying to recompile it, using either http://sciencesoft.at/latex/?lang=en or the first google result for the words "latex to pdf online." (I can't post the hyperlink d...
I'm using the multicol package inside an a0poster document class. I am trying out a 3 column layout for a portrait poster. I have a large tikz drawing that I want to put inside a figure environment inside a column. If I put the figure inside the multicols environment, the picture disappears. In fact, I can only get text to stick to the c...
How can i create PDF thumbnails in TeXShop using LaTeX and thumbpdf? I have \usepackage{thumbpdf} in my preamble, ran LaTeX twice, ran $ thumbpdf report.pdf from a Terminal (I'm on a Mac), then ran LaTeX again, but the PDF has no thumbnails? Am I missing a step? The thumbpdf command created png files but then deleted them again, a...
I'm using PDFLaTeX to create forms and ran into a problem with the \TextField macro that defines input fields: \TextField[width=4in,name=sample]{} The resulting field is a little wider than 4 inches and I don't understand why. The following example illustrates the problem by resulting in an overfull hbox which gets highlighted because...