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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Including images with optimal quality


First, ensure that your images originally have good quality.

Bitmap images, such as JPG/JPEG and PNG, have a fixed number of pixels, so by scaling they may become blurry or pixelated. You may notice this in the images in this book as the production process required bitmap images instead of the original LaTeX output in PDF format.

Vector images, in contrast, are scalable without loss of quality. You can zoom in and out and they keep looking fine. An example of this is the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. It's not natively supported by LaTeX, but it can be converted to PDF or to TikZ (PGF). We will talk about TikZ and PGF in Chapter 9, Creating Graphics. Portable Document Format (PDF) and PostScript (PS) are vector formats, although they are allowed to contain bitmap images. Vector formats should be preferred over bitmap formats.

Today, pdfLaTeX is most widely used. It allows the inclusion of PDF images. Furthermore, the bitmap formats, JPG/JPEG, and...

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