I know that using LaTex is free, but is selling pdf made in LaTeX legal?   I looked up the license  , but got nowhere to reading, "Selling pdf made in LaTeX is legal".  Is there something I missed?  Edit: And also copyrighting pdf made in LaTeX is legal?
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If I write a LaTeX document that uses LPPL packages, since (La)TeX is a macro-replacement language, and I generate its output, to PDF for example, is the resultant output, in any form, a derived work from the LPPL packages?  I would like to be clear about this in order to know which types of licenses can I apply to my LaTeX source code and its output. For example, GFDL, CC-BY-SA, or even the source code LPPL and its output CC-BY-SA.
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How could I write a command in LaTeX, so after compiling it will be shown as a text in PDF and not executed?  For Example, I would write \it This is how you write in italic and the compiled pdf would contain the exact same text between the quotation marks without \it being executed.
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Does anyone know of any LaTeX modules that makes the pdf output generated by pdflatex / compliant?  Specifics:   With regard to math. One simple solution is to embed the latex equation as an alt tag. Simpler, and IMO better than translating to MathML. With regard to graphics. I use dot to generate the graphics. A simple solution here is to embed the .dot file as an alt tag for the figure.   Is there any way to generate alt tags with pdflatex?
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Which book (free or otherwise) was the most useful to you when you started learning LaTeX?  I am frequently asked this question by friends who want to learn LaTeX, and I recommend the book which got me started, , but I feel that there might be better options around.  Also see .
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I would create a document using latex, if I want to print the document and make a book out of it, how should I do it? My document has 50 pages, and following requirements :  Double side printing Book starts from right Staples will be at the center of the sheet.   First sheet will have pages 1, 2 and 49, 50 Second sheet will have pages 3, 4 and 47, 48 etc  How do I go about arranging this type of format?
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I have a source file called 2011-05-27_Myfilename.tex and I'd like to create a PDF file from it called only Myfilename.pdf.  Can this be configured from within the .tex file itself?  (It seems to be possible with    pdflatex -jobname=Myfilename.tex 2011-05-27_Myfilename.tex   However, as many different files are concerned, It would be easier to have an option like output=Myfilename in the LaTeX source code.)
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I'd like to create a LaTeX document that when rendered into PDF, has forms that can be filled out using Adobe Reader or other such programs. Then I'd like to be able to extract the data. I deliberately would like to avoid using Acrobat for all the usual reasons (non-free, need different versions for different platforms etc).   Can this be done ?
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I've been working on a project and compiled it using pdfLaTeX, then tried to compile using pdftex and got a whole lot of errors. I'd like to know why that would happen since it's a very plain file and I did not put a pdflatex option in documentclass or anything like that, and what's the real difference between them.
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The images in my paper are in EPS format. If I execute pdflatex to get a PDF version of my paper, the figures won't appear. I have to typeset using the latex command, and then convert the DVI file to PDF using dvipdf.   Why doesn't pdflatex support EPS figures?
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I hope this is the correct place where I could ask this question. My mother is an accountant with a degree in economics. She works as a freelancer and she needs some licenses for her job.  The biggest problem is adobe acrobat standard, which costs 400€, quite a lot. I want understand if she must buy it to create pdf files or she can use some free (even for commercial use) programs that she has because of her job (the chamber of commerce provide some advantages to accountants).  She is actually using PDFCreator, which as I can read is free for business usage (open source also!!):   Thanks for any suggestion
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I need a package to draw a Gantt chart in LaTeX, the primary criteria is just: ease of use. I am spending too much time learning "packages" here and there, this just needs to get a simple job done. I might be interested to know which ones are "better" for later reference, include them if you like, but for now... quick and dirty is golden.
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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 am a noob when it comes to TeX, however, I do use LaTeX for typing mathematical and engineering formulas, etc.   Recently I have taken it upon myself to try and write some technical papers to try and get published, however I do not know what... 'type'(?) of TeX software to use best, so that I can hit the ground running with it.   If you look , this can give you context as to the forums that I would be publishing to, (IEEE), and they even have some templates there. However I cam getting easily confused between BibTex, TeX, etc, and how they all 'fit' together, in my goal of writing a paper. I would like guidance on this.   What might be the easiest 'headache less' software to start writing a paper in TeX for a noob such as myself? Am I on the right track?  Thanks!
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Is there a list of open source LaTeX books? I've only found  (the link points to a web archive), but I want to know if there is a list with more diversity as this has only mathematical books. I want to find open source books about physics, chemistry, electronics...  My aim is to use these as a source of inspiration.  For example if I wanted to do a digital circuit I would like to take a look at a book written with LaTeX about electronics just to see how other people do it. Here for example is a physics book with the source available  .  In this book I've seen that putting images in the chapter entry looks nice.
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I am writing a document using LaTeX and generating PDF.  Can anybody tell me how I can generate the PDF metadata, e.g. author or title, from LaTeX?  On Windows XP, I am using MikTex's texify to generate the PDF.  On linux, I am using pdflatex to generate the PDF.  Any answers for either platform would be much appreciated!
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I'm using LaTeX for my research journal (similar to WordPress).  There are a number of subdirectories that contain complete (standalone) .tex files along with PDF files that I made from those standalone files.   I'd like to get a .tex file that contains all the .tex files and compiles to a PDF. What would be a good way to do that?  Currently I compile the .tex file in each subdirectory and then merge all the PDFs into a main PDF file. The problem is that each PDF takes a page and if I have a small note, the most of the page is clear. Please keep in mind that I would like to keep the standalone PDF files, too.  The other option is to cut out the body of the document and paste it into the main LaTeX file, but i was wondering if there is a package that does it. Meaning that would keep both main and stand alone files. Kind of like have chapters of the book compile separately
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I'm making my journal using . Here is an example of PDF output file:   However, I've reviewed some papers from Elsevier, and I can see the difference. For example:   How can I create the PDF file similar to the second picture? Thanks.