Questions tagged [postscript]
{postscript} concerns the PostScript page description language that forms the base for PS, EPS and PDF formats common to (La)TeX
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EPS file not finding fonts
I was wondering how to get an EPS file to find the fonts of my PDF. I usually input PostScript into my file (Plain TeX) like this
test.ps:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 400 70
%%...
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How can postscript math operations be included into pstricks commands?
I want to build a rectangular with an angle arrow using pstricks and psarc.
The length of the legs are given as defines and the angle should be calculated with postscript math operations. The basic ...
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PGF functional shading: bug in my code or/and in the viewers?
(Updated because I have mistakenly added a comment sign % in the recreated shading from scratch (here before ifelse: } % ifelse % I=3. The bug remains in Preview.app but I need to correct what I said ...
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Pgf functional shading: bug in Apple Preview (and Firefox PDF viewer), instead of shading, black, white, flashy green and magenta. `cvr` trick no work
On https://texample.net/hsv-shading/ there is a code (reproduced below) which gives theoretically:
But in Apple Preview it gives:
The code uses this theoretical trick to work around the bug:
% Fix ...
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Shoud I avoid calculating reals with PGF/TikZ? How accurate it is?
The concrete question that I would like to ask is why the following example of TikZ does not work well. It basically draw a circle through two random points (red and blue) that is orthogonal to the ...
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LaTeX psplot and multido
I tried to mix multido with psplot and I get an postscipt error:
Error: /undefined in -3.0def
I understand that \r will ignore the space after the command but if I type \relax or {} these end up in ...
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sending pdf to a printer / binder service
I wrote my thesis in LaTeX using overleaf. I compile the pdf and open with adobe acrobat pro. I then apply pdf/x standards and make sure all my fonts are embedded. Everything checks out and no errors ...
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How to include EPS in LuaLaTeX multiple times and have the postscript code run each time?
Ahoj,
I have an .eps file that does some random number calculations in order to look different on each execution.
Now I want to include it into a LuaLaTeX document several times, and each time it is ...
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gv: the outputs of pdflatex, latex+dvipdf, and latex+ps2pdf are slightly shifted upwards compared to the output of latex+dvips
Let's create mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=1cm,paperheight=1.25cm,margin=0cm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}\noindent
\begin{...
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half-opaque colors of TikZ differ in PS and PDF
Consider the file mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=1cm,paperheight=1.5cm,margin=0cm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
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postscript hyperlink url auto-open
I'm trying to add a hyperlink to a PDF by modifying the PostScript.
Any possible to open this action link automated or opening postscript or pdf. it will be executed the link.
[/Rect [ 0 425 295 445 ]
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(How) Can I make a page which is the only page on a printed sheet?
I want to make a PDF document which have no blank pages when viewed or printed single-sided. But when printed double-sided, the first page (the cover) should be the only page printed at the first ...
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How to build index of words from PostScript generated by DVIPS?
The background story is, I'm building Common Lisp the Language from its publicly released source, the source is in LaTeX 2.09 and was build by "Textures, an implementation of TeX by Blue Sky ...
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Selective Rendering of PDF
I'd like to do something that I think many people would like to do, but the tools don't seem to exist.
The short form of my question is whether there is a library (C++ or Java) to parse a PDF produced ...
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Postscript File to Place Everything in a Layer
Would like a postscript file that will place original pdf content onto a layer. Everything in the original pdf goes on a layer. Don't know how to place the stream into the ocg... This is the start of ...
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