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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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rmarkdown: pandoc: pdflatex not found

When I use the render{rmarkdown} to produce pdf file from .Rmd file on my Mac, an error message says pandoc: pdflatex not found. pdflatex is needed for pdf output. Error: pandoc document conversion failed However when I check with pdflatex -v I…
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How to get rid of navigation bars in beamer

How to remove the navigation bar of sections and subsections on the top of each slide generated from a beamer latex file? By the way, in my preamble, I wrote: \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} \usepackage{beamerthemeshadow}
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Compiling LaTex bib source

I am writing my thesis in Latex, and I have the references in an own thesis.bib file which look as follows @Article{xxx, author = "D.A. Reinhard", title = "Case Study", year = "1985", } and I reference them in my main…
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Remove boxes from hyperlinked ToC in LaTeX

How do I remove the red boxes from my hyperlinked table of contents created by using the hyperref package in LaTeX.
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Run pdflatex quietly

I'm calling pdflatex from within my (C++) program using system(), needless to say all the garbage pdflatex puts on screen is a bit irritating in this case. So...how do I encourage pdflatex to forego the lengthy outputs? It would be even better if…
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Renumbering figure in LaTeX?

How can I make figures be renumbered in a TeX document? I want the main figures to be 1, 2, 3, ...etc. But then I want a section to have supplementary figures, S1, S2, S3, S4. The "S" does not have to appear in the figure name, but I do want to…
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Sphinx docs: Remove blank pages from generated PDFs?

By default, Sphinx documentation outputs a PDF that's formatted for duplex printing. So there is a blank page between the title page and the TOC, the TOC and the introduction, the introduction and the first section, etc. My users are always going to…
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How to get a single PDF document from Doxygen?

When I generate Doxygen documentation in PDF format, I get plenty of different files with a single diagram in each. Is it possible to obtain a single PDF document, organized as a book, roughly as the HTML version? Is it possible to get it…
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Avoiding the creation of .aux, .log and .synctex.gz files when using pdflatex

I just want to have a .tex file which I compile with pdflatex and end up with a .pdf file. I don't want all the other .aux, .log and .synctex.gz files. pdflatex doesn't seem to have arguments for this.
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Pdflatex for windows

Does anyone know how to convert .tex files to .pdf in windows? I tried cygwin but it said the command "pdflatex" was not recognised Thanks Philip
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How do I use TrueType fonts with LaTeX

I need to use a font family in my LaTeX documents, that is available as 18 .TTF (TrueTypeFont) files. Where do I have to copy the files in my MiKTeX 2.8 installation? How Do I make the fonts available for LaTeX? I usually use pdfLaTeX. I read in…
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pandoc doesn't text-wrap code blocks when converting to pdf

I'm using pandoc with xelatex engine to convert markdown to pdf. I'm running pandoc like this: pandoc -s 'backbone-fundamentals'.md -o 'backbone-fundamentals'.pdf \ --title-prefix 'Developing Backbone.js Applications' \ --normalize \ …
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Generating pdf-latex with python script

I'm a college guy, and in my college, to present any kind of homework, it has to have a standard coverpage (with the college logo, course name, professor's name, my name and bla bla bla). So, I have a .tex document, which generate my standard…
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How can I generate a PDF index from pdfLaTeX?

I often generate reports from pdfLaTeX using TeXworks, and would like to generate a document index, which will appear in the sidebar of a PDF viewer, (e.g. evince, Adobe Reader). Are there any packages which will allow me to do so?
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What are the relative merits of pdflatex?

Not sure this is a programming question, but we use LaTeX for all our API documentation and user documentation, so I hope it will go through. Can someone please explain what are the relative merits of using pdflatex as opposed to the "classic"…
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