Questions tagged [pdf]
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How to get the meta information of a tex file into the pdf meta information?
I use xetex to create pdf documents out of LaTeX files. In the interest of general accessibility I would like the pdf file to contain some meta information about the file like the title or the ...
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PDF/UA-2 structure destination failures (LaTeX source)
Here is a MWE of LuaLaTeX source code:
\nonstopmode
\RequirePackage{pdfmanagement}
\RequirePackage{tagpdf}
\tagpdfsetup{activate/mc=true,activate/spaces=true}
\documentclass[11pt,usegeometry]{article}...
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LuaLaTeX not embedding fonts
When I open the pdf of my MWE in Adobe Acrobat and try to sign the signature field, I get the error 2013 which warns me that my fonts are not embedded. To be more precise, it's the Helvetica font that'...
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Get rid of redundant ICC color profiles when embedding with `graphicsx`
I've created multiple vector graphics for my thesis, exported from the vector program as PDF with embedded ICC color profile (FOGRA39). It appears that every file carries this profile and causes my ...
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Document metadata with PDF/A4-f
I have noticed that if I set up my \DocumentMetadata according to the PDF/A-4f standard and fill some of the entries using hyperref, the resulting PDF shows nothing in the document info whenever I ...
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Online tool to write LaTeX formulas on a non-editable PDF
Suppose I have a PDF containing Math or Physics exercises, but it is not editable. I would like to know if there is an online tool or web service that allows me to:
Upload the PDF.
Preview the pages.
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Why does this pdf figure crash lualatex?
I have an old workflow that uses LaTeX itself to process diagrams and plots. I've used this generate hundreds of figures over the years. This has suddenly started producing invalid pdf figure files: ...
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How can I tag an l3pdftextfield?
I'm trying to create a text field in a tagged PDF. My real document uses ltx-talk, which complicates things slightly, but the MWE below uses article. I mention ltx-talk in case somebody has a solution ...
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Making messy notes with LaTeX
There is a lot of information on how to make beautiful documents with LaTeX. However, I am thinking about setting up a note taking workflow and I purposely want to make things look messy. I suppose ...
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Include a pdf image 4"x4" on book front cover using \bookcovercomponent
I am designing a book cover using bookcover documentclass and would like to add a 4"x4" pdf graphics file in the center of the cover. The cover format is: Title at top, Edition, the ...
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Why adding titlesec makes links in toc inside PDF no longer work when using \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}?
I wanted TOC not to have section numbers displayed. So instead of using the star version of sections, found that simply adding \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0} does that.
But then I found that once package ...
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Is all meta-data written by tex engines to a PDF file visible for pdfinfo?
I found that latex engines create various pieces of meta-data,
some in Info dictionary,
a lot in XMP data and
some custom data like the banner
tagging data.
All pieces of data i am aware of can be ...
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How to get reproducible PDF
For quite some span of time, I was sure to have solved that problem.
I got the build time from the original PDF file, e.g. via pdfinfo. Then i made the next build with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH using exactly ...
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Compile & View fails although pdflatex runs successfully
I am using TeXstudio 4.9.0 on Fedora Linux. Say I have the following file:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\begin{document}
\...
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Lyx: Two Table of Contents with Different Granularity Levels
Please note, I am not a very advanced user of Lyx (or Latex). I am trying to accomplish the following when I export the PDF document from Lyx.
I want to have two Table of Contents (TOC) in my ...
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