[texhax] inporting pic to latex Doc

Matthew Leingang leingang at math.harvard.edu
Tue Feb 27 14:27:56 CET 2007


On a Mac, the Preview application can also do the same thing, and it comes
with the OS.

Make sure the ³marquee² (rectangle) is chosen over ³Tool Mode² on the
window¹s tool bar.  Click and drag to select the rectangle you want to keep,
then select the menu item Tools->Crop.  Save. Easy as pie.

--Matt

On 2/24/07 12:57 AM, "Frauke Jurgensen" <fraukevj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> What OS are you running? Under Linux, the GIMP will do the same thing for
> free.
> 
> 
> On 2/24/07, Abedelaziz Mohaisen <mo7aisen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> You should firstly remove the margins of the PDF. This is easily possible
>> using the adobe acrobat professional (from the tools menu choose advanced
>> editing then Crop Tool) once you do so, you will be able to identify what you
>> want to crop and once again you go to the tools menu and choose the same
>> procedure (advanced editing then crop tool), the identified crop area will be
>> colored in blue. Proceed by clicking OK and enjoy the new tight pdf without
>> margins.
>> 
>> Hopefully this is helpful
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Abedelaziz Mohaisen
>> Information Security Research Laboratory, INHA University.
>> 
>> 307 HiTech Center, 253 YongHyun Dong, Nam Gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea
>> 
>> P.O.Box: 402-751. Office Tel: +82Abedelaziz MOHAISEN [Master of Engineering
>> Candidate] Information Security Research LABORATORY IT & TELECOMMUNICATION
>> Engineering Graduate School - INHA University 307 HITECH CENTER, 253
>> YongHyun-dong, Nam-ku, Incheon 402-751, Korea. Office: +82-32-876-8424 || HP:
>> +82-10-3315-6221 Homepage: http://seclab.inha.ac.kr/~asm
>> <http://seclab.inha.ac.kr/%7Easm>  Abedelaziz MOHAISEN [Master of Engineering
>> Candidate] Information Security Research LABORATORY IT & TELECOMMUNICATION
>> Engineering Graduate School - INHA University 307 HITECH CENTER, 253
>> YongHyun-dong, Nam-ku, Incheon 402-751, Korea. Office: +82-32-876-8424 || HP:
>> +82-10-3315-6221 Homepage: http://seclab.inha.ac.kr/~asm
>> <http://seclab.inha.ac.kr/%7Easm> -32-876-8424, H.P.: +82-10-3315-6221.
>> 
>> Homepage: http://seclab.inha.ac.kr/~asm <http://seclab.inha.ac.kr/%7Easm>
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> From: texhax-bounces at tug.org [mailto: texhax-bounces at tug.org
>> <mailto:texhax-bounces at tug.org> ] On Behalf Of Thabo Gopane
>> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:18 PM
>> To: support at tug.org
>> Subject: [texhax] inporting pic to latex Doc
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Greetings
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Question
>> 
>> My easiest way to get any diagram (graph, sketch of lines and boxes), is to
>> safe it the doc first in PDF. Then I import into latex, like this:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> \begin{center}\label{A:Fig3}
>> 
>>  \includegraphics[width=5.25in]{framewrk}
>> 
>> \end{center}
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The problem is that Latex seems to import the page and not the actual object
>> (or pic). Now I have a pic imported but with a lot of margins. This makes
>> document look bad. Please help. Please help me to:
>> 
>> 1.improve on my methods , or
>> 
>> 2.do better by any alternative procedure.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Regards, Thabo
>> 
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Matthew Leingang
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