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Here is an upgrade to my previous poor man's solution that will be of use if one only wants to process images in the original pdf, what will be the case if it contains a scanned document.

Instead of using pdftk to get the pages and then converting them to png, pdfimages should be used to get the ...

It seems the problem I am dealing with has no known solution, so I offer a poor man's one:

- use pdftk, or any similar tool to create a pdf file for each page in the original document

mkdir temp ; cd temp
pdftk burst ../original.pdf


- for each page in pg001.pdf .... convert from pdf to png ...

Hello,

Have a look at "The node text", "Text parameters: font" in the PGF manual. In the version I have this begins in page 233.

In situations as you describe I used, for instance, "\font=\scriptsize".

Hope this helps!

Hello,

I have a pdf file with 2 nup sub-pages per landscape page and I need to convert this to an upright document whose pages are the sub-pages. I tried to use pstops but I could not make out how to do this. I can also use the other psutils, poppler, pdfjam, pdftk and Texlive, And of course I can ...

Thanks a lot for your reply! This is the kind of stuff I rarely use...

The table of contents is inserted in your document by the \tableofcontents command. So, you just have to change its position in your source.

If you cannot find it there, it must be in a style file you are using, and in that case you have two alternatives: either you can edit that style file to ...

Hello,

In a LaTeX document I am preparing I need to know whether a certain package is installed in order either to use it, or use some other alternative without getting an error. I would preferably make some kind of test that would also allow setting a toggle for later use. But I could not find out ...

Hi,

Yes, the prerex and vprerex packages are part of Tikz that is required by texlive and it is prerex that depends on xterm.
You could solve your problem by building your own meta-package as explained for instance here https://askubuntu.com/questions/33413/ , by finding the dependencies of texlive ...

Hello,

I'm starting using tikz for drawing a lot of mindmaps and I need environments or commands to simplify the task. So I
defined an environment for a mindmap like this:
\newenvironment{tree}[2]{
\begin{center}
\tikz \draw (0,-10) node [anchor=east,fill=orange!20] {some title};
\tikz[mindmap ...

I have found the problem: the macros created by the listofitems package to index list elements cannot be directly used as arguments to the \addlink command in the MWE. Instead of them its \itemtomacro command must be used to obtain fully expandable macros for the elements.

\newcommand{\addlist}[1 ...