Re: Pdf Pages Package Miktex Download
Gema Shisila
It is recommended that you download the "Basic MiKTeX Installer" from the download page. This allows you to set up a basic MiKTeX system. And since MiKTeX has the ability to download needed packages on-the-fly from the Internet, you will not miss any feature.
It was working fine when I installed and updated up to 17th Sep 2020.Not sure which package casued it, but after the most recent update, if I add (put it back)\usepackagedoclicense, I got this error now.
This also works with an unnumbered title page. The totpages package claims it's meant to be used for the actual total number of pages, not the last page's number for which the lastpage package is meant, but this way it can do that anyway and it resolves the dependency conflict.
With a recent distribution, neither OP's MWE nor Luc's code load totpages anymore. Therefore there is no longer a problem when loading lastpage. Additionally, the error message of totpages can be ignored (hit "enter"). There is no reason for the error message to be there.
In the Commands pages, we discussed building your own commands. Fortunately, many, many people have built their own commands already and made them available to users in packages. Packages allow us to use extra commands without having to include tons and tons of code in the preamble of a document. Instead, we just add the line
The American Mathematical Society has produced several packages for use with LaTeX. These packages allow much of the mathematical formatting we have introduced on these pages, as well as much, much more. The packages are included with the installation of MiKTeX. In order to be able to use the commands and symbols in these packages, they must be included in each document in which you require them. To include the packages, include the following in the preamble of your document:
Most of the basic parts of these packages which will be useful to you are covered somewhere on these pages. If you'd like to read about more options these packages provide, read the documentation for them at the following links:
The xypic package allows you to make tricky diagrams such as ones which include various items connected by arrows or lines. Take a look at the xypic home page to see what xypic can do. The package comes with MiKTeX. To use it, include the following in your preamble:
The fancyhdr package provides an easy way to place text on the top and/or bottom of every page. The fancyhdr package does not come with MiKTeX, but assuming that you installed MiKTeX using our recommendations, it should prompt you to install it the first time you try to use it. You include it in your source file in the usual way:
Making your own high-powered, fancy package like the ones created by the AMS requires a great deal of work and detailed knowledge about LaTeX. However, making your own set of commands or a basic preamble that you can include in any of your LaTeX documents is simple. Just follow these steps:
Store the location of the default package repository in theMiKTeX configuration data store. The location can be either a fullyqualified path name (a local package repository) or an URL (a remotepackage repository).
Fortunately, distribution rights do not apply for internal use. With any edition of Chocolatey (including the free open source edition), you can host your own packages and cache or internalize existing community packages.
This package has only the MiKTeX setup utility embedded. Any new install of MiKTeX involves using the setup utility to download and create a (temporary by default) repository and then installing from that repository. This Chocolatey package can both establish a more permenant repository (for sharing with other computers) and use a specific (possibly private) repository from which to install MiKTeX. Thus a single computer within a network could download MiKTeX from the internet and create a repository, and all other computers on the network could use that repository to install MiKTeX saving external bandwidth.
In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).
From RStudio (Windows), created a new R Markdown document and tried to knit it to a PDF. It failed. The background is that this is not my computer. Rather it's a new colleague I am introducing to R. He just installed R, RStudio, a bunch of packages, and MiKTex.
The core of LaTeX is a backend software package that complies the LaTeX code (.tex file) and creates the final document (PDF). There are a few different programs available to do this depending on the operating system of the user. The LaTeX Project provides information about how to install LaTeX on Windows, Macs, and Linux, as well as online services. Instruction on how to install the most common LaTeX programs for Windows and Mac can be found in the "Installation for Windows" and "Installation for Mac OS X" sections below.
For Mac OS X it is strongly recommended that you use MacTex. Information about MacTex can be found on their main page. It is recommended that you click the link "download MacTex". This link will take you to a page with the download package, as well as, the instructions for downloading MacTex. If you are having trouble locating you can download package. Follow the instruction on that page or the simple instructions listed below:
We also provide a zip file containing the binaries and man pages, for those who prefer not to use the installer. Simply unzip the file and move the binaries and man pages to whatever directory you like.
By default, Pandoc creates PDFs using LaTeX. Because a full MacTeX installation uses four gigabytes of disk space, we recommend BasicTeX or TinyTeX and using the tlmgr tool to install additional packages as needed. If you receive errors warning of fonts not found:
The executable is statically linked and has no dynamic dependencies or dependencies on external data files. Note: because of the static linking, the pandoc binary from this package cannot use lua filters that require external lua modules written in C.
You can also install from source, using the instructions below under Compiling from source. Note that most distros have the Haskell platform in their package repositories. For example, on Debian/Ubuntu, you can install it with apt-get install haskell-platform.
By default, Pandoc creates PDFs using LaTeX. We recommend installing TeX Live via your package manager. (On Debian/Ubuntu, apt-get install texlive.) With the option --pdf-engine, you however can specify other programs for this task.
From time to time you may find the need to add more LaTeX packages to your MikTeX installation. Packages can be found on CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, and can be downloaded from their web page at
produces a .dvi file which you can view or print. These documentation files can go anywhere that makes sense to you. I usually put all documentation in a subdirectory of localtexmfdoclatex (I make a subdirectory for each package), but you can also use texmfdoclatex if you are not using a localtexmf directory.
Some packages also need to put a few files in other locations. For instance, PSTricks needs some dvips inputs, files with .pro extensions, in texmfdvipsbase or localtexmfdvipsbase. In all cases, be sure to read the documentation.
The fancyhdr package can be used to customize the location and format of page numbers; for example, placing them at specific positions within the header or footer. The Overleaf article Headers and footers explores this in detail, with many examples we won't reproduce here.
Here we'll give one example of writing the current page number in the context of the total page count, such as Page X of Y where Y is the total number of document pages obtained using the lastpage package.
One can reduce the problem to the document below. (To avoid side effects from different config.ps I copied for the tests the config.ps from TeXLive to the miktex system but this isn't really relevant). After a compilation with LaTeX and dvips in miktex I then get a ps with this in the header:
This package simplifies the inclusion of external multi-page PDF documents in LaTeX documents. Pages may be freely selected and similar to psnup it is possible to put several logical pages onto each sheet of paper. Furthermore a lot of hypertext features like hyperlinks and article threads are provided. The package supports pdfTeX (pdfLaTeX) and VTeX. With VTeX it is even possible to use this package to insert PostScript files, in addition to PDF files.
MacTeX is a package which installs TeX Live on the Macintosh. The package is notarized by Apple and uses Apple's standard install technology. It contains native code for both Intel and Arm processors. When installation is complete, the software is fully configured and ready to use. The icon at the top left of our web pages is a link which takes you to this MacTeX home page. The MacTeX working group inside TUG provides two install packages. One, BasicTeX, is relatively small, about 90 MB,but fully capable of typesetting standard TeX and LaTeX documents. The other, MacTeX, is much larger and includes essentially all software available for typesetting with TeX-like systems, including TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt, etc.This complete system supports almost every written language in use today, including languages of Western Europe, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and a multitude of more obscure scripts. BasicTeX and MacTeX can coexist on the same machine, so users experimenting with TeX may reasonably install BasicTeX to try it out. The full MacTeX is recommended if you are certain that you will use TeX, even if you are a beginner, because any example in a book will automatically work and no time will be wasted adding extra missing components to the distribution.Four Ways to Install TeX Live on a Macintosh
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