TeX, LaTeX and Friends

4:48 AM

Hello everyone. If I have a very long, thin JPEG, is it better to rescale it by specifiying the height, or by scaling it down?

Here's the error I get:

<zhm_public_notice2.jpg, id=1, 162.6075pt x 1165.35374pt>
File: zhm_public_notice2.jpg Graphic file (type jpg)

<use zhm_public_notice2.jpg>
Package pdftex.def Info: zhm_public_notice2.jpg used on input line 4.
(pdftex.def)             Requested size: 162.6071pt x 1165.3509pt.
 [1

{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
Overfull \vbox (615.3509pt too high) has occurred while \output is active []

Faheem Mitha

5:06 AM

@JosephWright I was worried it was going to conclude with: "I'm not going to do that any more", so I skipped to the end. Fortunately he doesn't say that.

I'm surprised he can't figure out what early releases of tetex were in Debian. I thought Debian kept all the archives.

Johannes_B

7:44 AM

Looking at my current rep changes i would say: Somebody really likes me.

Faheem Mitha

8:07 AM

@Johannes_B I thought we all liked you.

BTW, where did everyone go?

Johannes_B

@FaheemMitha But something is giving me 5 to 6 upvotes every night for the last few days.

@FaheemMitha Shopping? Sleeping in? I don't know.

Faheem Mitha

@Johannes_B I hope they don't get rolled back.

But on different answers, or the same answers?

@Johannes_B BTW, just saw your comment. Apparently TeX SX is just you right now. :-)

What's the advantage of the standalone class here?

Johannes_B

@FaheemMitha Old answers i think. Haven't really checked.

Faheem Mitha

@Johannes_B ok

Johannes_B

@FaheemMitha You just want to have a pdf, instead of a jpg, right? standalone just uses the content and outputs that as the final pdf. You can add a border though. Nothing to care about with respect to page margins, numbering etc.

Faheem Mitha

8:12 AM

@Johannes_B Wouldn't I have the same problem there, e.g. a blank page being created before the page with the image?

Johannes_B

@FaheemMitha No. Currently that happens because the image is too big for a page of your page format including margins, so LaTeX decides to try on the next page, and gives up before adding another blank page. Standalone doesn't have a physical page.

Faheem Mitha

@Johannes_B Hmm. Ok, I'll give that a try. If it works, I'll let you know and you can add an answer if you want.

And isn't there a way to get LaTeX to give up earlier? I.e. a suicidal pessimism option?

Johannes_B

@FaheemMitha I don't know, but i guess not. The current behaviour makes sense.

Faheem Mitha

@Johannes_B I don't see why it can't just be persuaded to throw up its hands early. Rather than pointlessly going down a page...

Johannes_B

@FaheemMitha Does the picture in the pdf fit the page?

Faheem Mitha

8:21 AM

@Johannes_B Without scaling, no. With scaling, yes. But LaTeX still inserts a blank page first, even when it fits on the second page. I guess it thinks its overfull.

Johannes_B

@FaheemMitha Can't check without the actual stuff. The Q on main says, that the imagebox is 100pt to big with respect to the vertical dimension of the page, i.e. it would overprint the page number.

Faheem Mitha

@Johannes_B It would probably go into the page number region, yes. But I disabled page numbering.

Johannes_B

@FaheemMitha But not the margin. It sticks into the margin, hence it doesn't fit into a page, hence the extra blank page. Everything you don't have to think about when dealing with standalone.

Faheem Mitha

@Johannes_B Ok.

Well, off to the dentist shortly. I'll leave you holding down the fort. :-)

Have a nice day, Johannes.

Johannes_B

8:54 AM

@DavidCarlisle Concerning tex.stackexchange.com/questions/287502/…, don't you think that using multicol is the wrong approach in the first place?

@FaheemMitha Same to you, thanks :-)

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