Suppose we have a pdf file of a form that of A4 format.   Without saying so, the writer of the pdf form expects us to print it out, fill in the form by hand and post it as a snail mail.  Is it possible to import the pdf into a LaTeX document (similar to import of an image file) and fill in the form using say a large tabular environment.
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I have a form as a PDF file.  I would like to use LaTeX/TeX to overlay my text over the form, and send the output to either a print or another PDF file.  Is this possible?  How would I go about it?
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I would like to write some text in latex, then replace the black of the letters by a transparent layer, and overlay on top of a PDF photo. I could do it by exporting to photoshop, but I would like a latex-only solution. Thanks!
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I found a beautiful example of a powerful quiz that was created using LaTeX:   This example uses JavaScript inside a PDF document. Unfortunately, there is no source available. Does anyone know where I can find it?  P.S. Maybe there are similar packages you can advise?
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Is it possible to tell latex, that it should sort the sections you used in your document according to their alphabetical order in the final pdf document? I.e. I want to have something like this  \begin{document} \section{A} \section{C} \section{B} \end{document}   and in the pdf I get the result as  A B C   Is that possible, and if yes, how? Putting the sections into separate files is not preferred (but possible if scripted) due to having ~300 sections. Edit: I can also rewrite it as   \begin{sortEnvironment}{Title} Content \end{sortEnvironment}   if that makes it easier.
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Nowadays many job applications are sent in digital form as PDF. We use of course LaTeX to create such. Usually you add a cover letter to your CV and credentials. If you sent this as print-out by classic mail you sign this letter (at least in Germany), but what (and how) do you do for an online application?  I would say either:   leave it empty add your name in the usual font as normal text add your real signature as scanned image add your name in a special font so that it look more like a signature (but you can still see that it isn't a real one)   I'm planning to go with the last method and I'm looking for suitable fonts for it which I can use with PDFLaTeX (XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX answers are fine too, but will be taken as non-competitive). I would also be happy to get some style guidelines if I should not got with an other method (with a rationale to avoid subjective opinions).    I already had a look at   which is similar but still too different. I don't need or want any rule and the shown font in the accepted answer are looking too real.
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(This is an end-of-year crazy question)   Is it possible to embed a (scrollable) frame or a PDF inside a PDF? If so, how to do it in (pdf)LaTeX?  This is something pretty common in HTML (see for example ). Here it is a webpage with PDF frames   Here it is a fake screenshot so you get the idea.  Portable and non-portable (e.g. only-Acrobat) answers are welcomed.     Example of a down arrow below a frame. The up arrow can be on top of the frame and the triangles point up.
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I'm creating a fancy header with hyperlinks () for a large document. However, if/when this document is printed, this header is not useful and uses up ink and space. Is it possible to include an element in a pdf file such that it is not actually printed to paper but does display on screen?
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I'm currently a presentation based on a paper originally written in Latex. Currently, I use Kile and Ubuntu for my work.  What I'm finding is that I need a large number of the equations from the original paper scattered around the presentations (and are using them to annotate diagrams etc).  My current method of screenshots + gimp is rather slow :)  So, what I would like to do is compile the tex document and instead of creating a pdf/dvi, I would like it to spit out a number of files, which each file being one of the equations from the document, preferably in a vector format, but I will live with a PNG if I have to, so long as it's of high enough resolution.  I've had a look at a number of utilities.   The following web utility:  does more or less what I want for an individually typed equation. However, I've used a lot of mactros in equations that make it a little messy to use (for example)  \newcommand{\SkewSymmetric}[1]{\ensuremath{ \left[ #1 \right]_{\times}}}   I've had a look at pdf2svg, but it doesn't quite do what I want - I still need to crop out the equation of interest.  Is there anything else I should look at?
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Is it possible to have LaTeX (or another program) to expand a the macros in a .tex file, and output the expanded LaTeX source?   If no such program exists: are LaTeX macros processed simply as string substitutions, before the document is interpreted? If so, it might be easy enough to write my own such converter.  Edit: The reason I ask is journals which don't accept LaTeX submissions with macros. It would be useful to be able to develop with my usual macros, and convert automatically to the 'macro-expanded' format for submission.
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Is there any way to produce doc/docx files from LaTeX?
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I just started to learn LaTeX after seeing some amazing examples of scientific articles produced using it; I was also told that, unlike some other other text programs, LaTeX automatically produces articles respecting some publication standards. Well, after playing around with it for a while, I have to say my PDFs are anything but pretty, particularly when compared to those examples I mentioned before! My margins are really too large, my font size seem to be too small, my default paper is not A4 (and even when I set it manually to A4, the top margin then take an even more ridiculous amount of space). After reading a bit, I obviously found out how to control these elements, but the whole point for me to start learning LaTeX was not to fool around with such things. So here is (are) my question(s): am I doing something wrong? Is all this a matter of configuration? Or am I being delusional and my output PDFs actually ARE all in the expected standards? (I am using MiKTeX, and I tried three editors so far: TeXworks, LyX and WinEdt8)  Here are some examples I found on the internet of what I am talking about. The first seems to me as a simple article without any extra layout commands. Notice the size of the margins, fonts, etc. This is how my PDFs look like.   Now compare that previous PDF with this one here:  Unfortunately this one is written in two column format but I couldn't find another example online with just one column. Note how everything is balanced, how the margins are small, how the font is smaller as well, etc.  As a final note, I just would like to say that I really don't mind learning LaTex and that I am not expecting to produce amazing documents from day one; I just think that, in case my problems here are really sound, then I might have came to LaTeX with the wrong set of mind.  Thanks a lot!
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I am using the eforms package in order to build pdf fillable forms. However there is something I haven't found yet, which Adobe product do I need to purchase in order to save the edited forms? Does anyone know if I can use something for free?  I would like to create the forms using LaTeX and then offer them through our website to our customers. They should be able to complete them with their details, save them and send them back to us. We don't want our customers to buy anything extra in order to fill in a form. We just want them to open the pdf using Acrobat Reader, edit it and then send it to us.
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I'm writing a report in LaTeX and I'm using excel to calculate, make graphs and tables. What would you recommend me to do to import it to latex?  I have tried taking print-screen and import as figures, but if the image scale isn't 100% it gets blurry and ugly.  I've been trying to export, print and save selected area as pdf. But no matter what I try, it exports with selected paper size. So it has a huge margin and I think it would take to much time to make a custom paper size for each figure.  Any thoughts?
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I'm currently generating some presentations with beamer for students of my course. Some like to print the material, so I created a handout. Some students prefer to have 2,3,4,6 etc. pages per sheet of A4 paper. How can I go about to automatize the following code, so that it outputs 4 different files in 1x2,1x3,2x2,2x3 format?  I'd like to avoid having to compile it again everytime for the different formats.  \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{pdfpages}  \begin{document} \includepdf[pages=1-last,nup=1x2,landscape=false,frame=true,             noautoscale=false,scale=1,delta=0mm 5mm]{Pres7Chap13-Handout.pdf} \end{document}
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I'm trying to merge multiple PDF files by using pdfjoin. However the joined PDF is not right beacuse orientation for some text is changed. I have checked all options of pdfjoin, enforcing orientation etc. but of no use.  The two source PDFs have slightly different dimensions (595 × 842, 595 × 841) and should be merged as A4. How can I merge them in A4?  I know about other merging tools online but the problem with them is that the generated PDF is not further processable as in pdfjoin.  I'd like to know if there are some solutions to merge PDFs with slightly different sizes in to a single file using pdfjoin.
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Since TeX and LaTeX can print out any text, it should be possible to write a self-replicating document, i.e., a document that is typeset as a PDF/DVI of itself. Have you seen something like that?
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I work a lot with MATLAB, and I want to enable the reader of my paper to easily reproduce my computations. I also want the pdf document to be self-contained, i.e., no hyperlinks to a webpage on which the code is available. Is there a good way to accomplish this in LaTeX?  Unfortunately, I find that authors frequently print their computer code in the paper, and the code might be broken over multiple pages, thereby making copy-and-paste a tedious task.  I envision two alternatives:   In the pdf, there is a link that when clicked, prompts the user to save an m file in a directory of his choosing. I do not want the m file to reside in a local network drive (as in ), but rather, I want the m file code to somehow reside under the hood of the pdf (much like how the pdf includes graphics, say). In the pdf, there is a text box with a scroll bar which contains my MATLAB code. If interested, the reader can easily copy and paste as desired.   I would be very happy to learn how to implement either of these (or other alternatives) in LaTeX. Thanks for the help!