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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

Adding a frame to an image


You can add a simple frame to an image or to text by using the \frame{...}, \framebox{...}, or \fbox{...} commands. However, this would give a simple box with thin black lines and a certain distance to the content. How about changing the color, line thickness, or distance? The classic way to do the latter is by changing the LaTeX lengths \fboxrule and \fboxsep. It's a bit laborious, especially when the lengths can vary. It can be made easier.

How to do it...

We will load the adjustbox package. It provides several useful commands for modifying boxes. It implicitly loads the graphicx package and exports its own features to the \includegraphics command. Follow these steps:

  1. Load the xcolor package:

    \usepackage{xcolor}
  2. Load the adjustbox package with the export option:

    \usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
  3. At the place in your document where the image is to be placed, use the \includegraphics command, like in the previous recipe. This time, add the cframe option:

    \includegraphics...
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