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setting TEXINPUTS breaks kpathsea search path in TeXLive-2010 for Windows 5 496 (9/28/2010 2:54:10 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, I would like to store my graphics files for inclusion in a subdirectory of the current one containing the LaTeX document source. I know of three ways to set the search path for graphics files: 1. \g... Alexander

``Reload'' function for Adobe Reader (Linux) 6 21 (1/22/2009 11:11:37 AM) comp.text.tex Hi, I wrote a little JavaScript that adds a ``Reload'' item to the ``File'' menu of Adobe Reader. It allows to reload the PDF document currently viewed in the Reader to reflect the latest changes. The last vie... Alexander

comparing \uppercase'd filename extensions 16 24 (9/16/2008 3:13:35 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, I am having a problem with comparing the extension of a filename against a given template. Any combination of upper and lower case letters should match. Curiously, the obvious doesn't work: \documentcla... Alexander

dvipdfmx.def missing, why? 4 55 (6/12/2008 12:41:17 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, about two years ago Heiko Oberdiek reported that the file `dvipdfmx.def' required for the graphicx package option `dvipdfmx' to work is missing: http://groups.google.de/group/comp.text.tex/tree/browse_frm... Alexander

XeTeX, multipage PDF 0 26 (6/11/2008 9:53:41 AM) comp.text.tex Hi, does there exist a XeTeX primitive that allows to determine the highest page number of a multi-page PDF to be included? Thanks, Alexander ... Alexander

[GS] re-use existing /BP-/EP-generated XObjects in other /BP-/EP-generated XObject 2 34 (6/5/2008 12:31:13 PM) comp.lang.postscript Hi, If one tries to re-use existing XObjects, that were created using /BP & /EP pdfmarks, within another XObject to be created using a /BP-/EP pdfmark pair, the resulting container XObject lacks the /XObject >... Alexander

comparing savebox contents 2 33 (6/3/2008 2:35:59 PM) comp.text.tex Hi, is there a way to find out whether the contents of two saveboxes is equal? Thanks! Alexander ... Alexander

PS coordinates of lower left page corner wanted 2 22 (6/3/2008 8:14:38 AM) comp.text.tex Hi, does dvips define some variables that contain the Postscript coordinates of the lower left page corner? Or do I have to \put a \special containing `currentpoint' myself? Thanks! Alexander ... Alexander

making postscript definitions available on other pages 2 33 (3/25/2008 4:41:54 PM) comp.text.tex Hi NG, I'd like to know how to extend the scope of Postscript def's, inserted by means of the \special command, to other pages of the document. If I insert, e. g. \special{ps: 1000 /somevar def } at some... Alexander

making cs created by \csname undefined 4 23 (3/14/2008 12:44:07 PM) comp.text.tex Hi NG, I'd like to make a command previously defined using \csname undefined again. E. g.: {\expandafter\gdef\csname foo\endcsname{}} { \ifcsname foo\endcsname defined \else undefined \fi } % % Which co... Alexander

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How to declare the path for u3d files invoked by movie15 package? 1 36 (11/27/2008 10:46:23 AM) comp.text.tex Hi all, I use the movie15 package to include some 3d multimedia files in u3d format within my document by using the following snippet codes: \includemovie[ poster, toolbar, %same as `controls' label=112.u... hongyi.zhao (486)

``Reload'' function for Adobe Reader (Linux) 6 21 (1/22/2009 11:11:37 AM) comp.text.tex Hi, I wrote a little JavaScript that adds a ``Reload'' item to the ``File'' menu of Adobe Reader. It allows to reload the PDF document currently viewed in the Reader to reflect the latest changes. The last vie... a.grahn (59)

scripting a bunch of images in a directory with includegraphics anyone? 4 18 (2/2/2009 10:36:43 AM) comp.text.tex Hi, Is there a way to add a bunch of images in a directory as includegraphics entries in a Latex document? Does anyone have a script to do that? Cheers, Albert. ... avilella (61)

Hyperlinks to pages in an external PDFs 11 25 (4/8/2009 11:35:52 AM) comp.text.tex Hi there, how is it possible to set an hyperlink to a particular page that is in an external PDF? Suppose you have foo.pdf. How can I create an hyperlink, in mypaper.tex, that links to page 45 in foo.pdf? I... aliptah (6)

Beamer Question #7 1 49 (4/21/2009 9:05:32 AM) comp.text.tex Hi everybody. I am using beamer with pdfLaetx to prepare a presentation. Say for example that my presentation has 10 slides. I want for the slides 5-8 the slides to advance automatically every 5 seconds. For... nomail9445 (41)

Animate.sty and compressed .eps 4 45 (9/14/2009 5:34:59 PM) comp.text.tex I have a movie of an experiment that was filmed at a high frame rate so it is ~1600 .eps files if I converted it into individual frames. I wanted to use animate.sty to include that in my beamer presentation... ugdc (180)

adding Postscript comments 2 39 (10/1/2009 9:16:27 PM) comp.text.tex I'm trying to add comments to Postscript files generated by dvips using \special. But I know almost nothing about Postscript and my first attempts have resulted in \undefineds when the files are processed by, f... BobT (1459)

flashmovie.sty - pdflatex error: cannot open file for embedding 2 20 (2/18/2010 11:50:51 AM) comp.text.tex Hello, I want to embed a flash movie in a pdf document. For this I want to use the package flashmovie.sty (www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/ contrib/flashmovie/) First I downloaded the file http://heasa... beppoanmeldung (2)

Wierd metapost inclusion problem 8 24 (2/22/2010 2:11:43 PM) comp.text.tex I made a simple drawing t.mp: beginfig(1); draw fullcircle scaled 3cm; endfig; end; and then do this and compiles in pdflatex: \documentclass[a4paper]{memoir} \usepackage{graphicx} \ifpdf \DeclareGraphicsRu... daleif1329 (544)

New package for layers in PDF presentations in pdflatex 9 25 (3/14/2010 8:42:03 PM) comp.text.tex Dear all, I wrote a simple package for support of OCG in pdflatex. With this package you can insert (small) picture into presentation and clicking this picture you get larger version. You can use in principle ... marik (79)