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Embed Fonts in a PDF on MacOS X from pdftex

November 24th, 2007 by Marcos

So, I spent a lot of time googling on this. I had a pdf of my thesis I wanted to get printed into book form - and the site I was using to publish needed all the used fonts embedded in the PDF file. It claimed that one was not, in fact, embedded. […]

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Papers 1.5 released

November 5th, 2007 by Marcos

The excellent Papers has been updated to 1.5 and includes additional search engines as well as the ability to use search engine plug-ins. New search engines include Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. No ADS yet but Google Scholar does an okay job finding ADS and ApJ papers.

It also boasts improved Leopard […]

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Apple Pages - Perfect Poster App?

June 5th, 2005 by Marcos

So, this week I made a poster for the Tex-Mex 9 conference in San Antonio, which I’m off to tomorrow. My tool of choice, Apple’s new Pages program, part of iWork which also includes Keynote.

In the past, I had tried to use Powerpoint. The problem with Powerpoint for posters is twofold. One, […]

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Poster Template for Apple’s Pages

May 4th, 2005 by Marcos

Ok, a little late but as promised here is a poster template for Apple’s Pages. This is by far the best program for making scientific posters that I’ve seen. Support for vector graphics, floating and in-line images, easy columns. Very nice. Certainly no need to use Powerpoint (or even Keynote for […]

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