Questions tagged [pdftex]
pdfTeX is an extension of TeX which is capable of directly generating PDF output. Use this tag if the used engine – pdftex/pdflatex – is significant to your question.
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Add today's date manually
I want to add today's date, for example 10/26/2025 How do I do that?
\documentclass[20pt,margin=1in,innermargin=-4.5in,blockverticalspace=-0.25in]{tikzposter}
\geometry{paperwidth=33.11in,paperheight=...
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Issue with APA citation style
I am using the main.tex for my thesis on Overleaf, and everything is correct except the APA citation. In the current form, the citation is printing in the text as (P. Arora 2019) instead of (Arora, ...
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TeX capacity exceeded with xsim and tikz
I am working on this document for a remote assistance session, but I cannot identify what is triggering the error.
Commenting out two of the three exercises allows the compilation to work fine, but ...
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Pdf-tool not working with Auctex
I upgraded my Emacs to Emacs 30.2 via GNU Emacs for Mac OSX. I observed the problem with pdf view mode for AucTeX to occur. The details are as follows.
Please find here the relevant sections from ....
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no pdf output via WinEdt 10.3 [closed]
I'm aware that this question is not suitable for this site but I'm still hoping that I'll
reach a help here. Why I'm getting no output pdf pages and this error:
Command Line: bibtex.exe "all&...
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Lmodern/Boisik encoding issue in math mode with minus sign
I've been struggling with an encoding issue when typing the minus sign - in math mode.
In regular text, the minus sign is rendered without any issues. In math mode a paragraph § symbol is shown ...
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Error from envlab that I don't understand
I am trying to print an envelope with a return address (as well as an address). I am using a protocol that I am sure (hah!) worked in the past, but I now get an error that is opaque to me.
I have ...
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pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{equation.33}) has been already used, duplicate ignored [closed]
When I call
$ pdflatex my_document.tex
I get this warning
pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{equation.33})
has been already used, duplicate ignored
<argument> ......
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How to write out basic math-by-hand examples
I am wanting to make custom example problems of addition/subtraction/multiplication/long division by hand. I have no faith in word's equation editor (fun fact, it doesn't have the long division symbol!...
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Reproduce an old textbook Esercizi di algebra Ragusa-Sparacino (dic 1992)
When I was a university student in the 1990s, I had bought the following book on Algebra Exercises, by Prof. Alfio Ragusa and Prof. Clara Sparacino.
I remember that many students had this textbook, ...
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“Error building thesis template with pdflatex: fontspec requires XeTeX or LuaTeX” [duplicate]
I downloaded a LaTeX template for my bachelor’s thesis (and I am trying to build it using Tex Build in Visual Studio Code.
However, the build fails with the following error:
! Fatal Package fontspec ...
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Adding tcolorbox counter breaks new document command
I've been trying to add a \thetcbcounter into my \NewDocumentCommand, but every time I try this (a few different options), it breaks the last input into my new command. I am trying to add this to ...
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URW-Classico font for the sections, subsection,
I'm trying to customize the preamble of the LaTeXAestheticTemplate
project, specifically this file: preamble.tex
I'd like to keep the general structure of the preamble intact, but I need to ...
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Compiling with pdfpatex contd. Not working when eps-file resides in a different tree?
How can this problem be solved. Thank you very much in advance for your kind support.
After reinstallation of MikTeX, WinEdt, Coreldraw (to create eps figures) and Ghostscript eps-files are now ...
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compiling with pdflatex epstopdf does not work
What is going wrong below?
I'm working with win11, MikteX 25.4 and WinEdt 11.2.
I try to compile the code below with the following setting: Executable: pdflatex.exe, no Switches, Parameters: "%N%...
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