Latex and Figures: Ever Had Trouble?

If you did, here is a couple of hints: Converting to .eps makes it all easier. To do this, you may use an online interface, which is free to use: ALL to EPS

This website brings information about the different picture formats. For instance, it explains that .jpg means Joint Photographic Experts Group. 

You can write the name of the file plus its extension inside of the curled brackets with no loss, so do it, since that will make your code clearer.

You are definitely going to need to include at least one line in your preamble: \usepackage{graphicx}

What I am recommending is the Incredible Hulk Solution, like it seems that if you do things in this way, you will have the least amount of chance of having problems, that is, of not having your picture displayed on your .pdf (Portable Document Format) in the end.

The code to be used inside of the file, between the \begin{document} and the \end{document} is:

\begin{figure}[h!]

  \centering

  \includegraphics[width=350pt]{graphs.eps}\\

  \caption{Maple Plot}\label{U}

\end{figure}

The [h!] is to guarantee that the picture will appear where you have placed the just-mentioned lines. The 350pt is a reasonable choice and you can play with that as much as you like via trial and error. graphs.eps was the name of my picture after I converted it from .jpg to .eps (Encapsulated Postscript). The caption, you know, is what you want printed soon after the graph, and the label thing is to allow you to mention this graph in the future, inside of the text, without much hassle. We then used the command \ref{U} in our case. 


If you got a picture that is in a horizontal position but you need it to be in the vertical position, you can try to adjust the angle of display by typing things in this way: 

\begin{figure}[h!]

  \centering

  \includegraphics[width=350pt, angle=90]{graphs.eps}\\

  \caption{Maple Plot}\label{U}

\end{figure}

Then you play with that 90 degrees as you need. 

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Linkedin and Job Search: The Finest Hints

I have recently found this video and I have never watched anything more impressive: The amount of information delivered by this woman is really unbelievable. 

Here a video you will not regret watching if you are really wanting to optimize your use of this wonderful and so modern tool, Linkedin. 


The video brings some propaganda of the company that has built it but you can easily ignore that and simply get the information, which is really important and looks very reliable.

Super Video


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How to Open your Hard Disk

Once the hard disk is open, it will stop being a mystery: I cannot believe it is all like the old LP players. There is a reading head and something that is just like our LP reading system but, instead of having a vinyl disk, we have one that looks like our CDs.

The main issue you will have is finding the position of the screws, as for what we can see. 

A WD5000BPVT, like mine, seems to have 8 main screws: 3 hidden on the top of it, under a cover made of foil (three circles), one that is visible and, by the first 4/7 of it, one that is not visible and is a bit above the line where this is (closer to the top), to the other side, one right where you read W, and two visible ones to the bottom. 

You will only find opening it easy if you know where the screws are. Once all the screws have been taken out, the metallic cover will easily come out but, before that, you may end up doing something as ugly as what the boy does in this video:

Messy

And this is an example of good and clean work:

Open Your Hard Disk

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How to insert a graph you built with Maple in a Latex document

If you are trying to insert a graph you have just built using Maple in a Latex document, you may struggle for a while until you get to the conclusion that we will here pass to you for free: The easiest way to do that is exporting the plot after placing it on a sheet by itself by means of the tab File from Maple. Choose the option Export As from the tab File from Maple and then export it in a Portable Document Format or in .pdf mode. 

After you do that, place your graph inside of the folder in which you are saving your .tex document from Latex, so that you have less work. If you don't do that, Latex may not be able to find your plot and therefore will not put it on its document pages for you.

Now you copy the command lines 

\begin{figure}[H]

\advance\leftskip-4cm

\includegraphics{yhu.pdf}

\caption{My Picture}

\end{figure}

  

and paste them on the height of the Latex document, .tex file, where you want the graph to appear. Do not forget to replace yhu.pdf with the actual name of YOUR FILE.

Make sure you have included the packages graphics and float through the preamble of the Latex document by typing this

\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{float}

And now it is just a matter of saving and compiling the .tex file. You will see the graph on the .ps or .pdf file you have produced through the compilation process.

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Chapter 1,000,000th: The Unwanted Line on My MS Word Document

Have you ever had a line appearing in the middle of your MS Word document, a line that appeared as a ghost would: Not invited, and there, in principle, JUST TO TORMENT YOU?

I had that happening to me plenty of times. 

In all other times I started my document again but this time I was too determined not to investigate this issue further. 

After some mining, I got to the following website: Lines MS.

This website was not good enough, for I did all that they say I should be doing but the stubborn line remained unchanged.

I then decided to dig further and found a video: MS, Line, Video.

The only possible reference I found on the web for this problem was this procedure and a few people said it worked for them.

I then said to myself: It has to work for me!

If I had doubts after reading the text, like if I thought that perhaps I had misunderstood or something, the video settled it all: I had to use the borders button.

Oh, well, I simply insisted and repeated the procedure a few times. It finally worked and you can find a proof on this page that it did, so that you are now capable of addressing this LITTLE MS WORD issue yourself too.

Wow, what a drama! It all looks trivial now. See for yourself:

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MS Word and the Drama of the Last Page of a Template

Nothing nastier, when it comes to editing your text, than having to face the LAST PAGE DRAMA.

There you are, with your beautiful template, a wonderful image on the cover and all. 

Now, there is a last unwanted page and it will not leave your document: You will try all you think is logical, so say you will go to the last page and press the back button on the keyboard or go to the page before the last and press the Del button instead. Notwithstanding, NOTHING that your vain imagination can give you will work.

On the daily grind of MS Word, you will try Dr. Google: MS Word, template, last page and delete.

You will then find suggestions that go from using the Page Setup function to using the Go To button but, again, despite what those people say on those websites, NOTHING WILL WORK.

A couple of examples of our vain attempts: Ref. One and Ref. Two.

In case you are identifying yourself with the lines above this paragraph, here you have what will take you out of misery: SIMPLY EDIT THE SAME WORD DOCUMENT WITH ANOTHER EDITOR, so copy and paste then edit it. 

Nowadays, you can download free pieces of software from the Internet at waste and some of those pieces allow you to stop having to waste your life with the MS bugs.

You will find one that will finally edit your MS Word document and allow you to delete the page with no further dramas. We have just gone through the WONDER, so that the result is, indeed, guaranteed. 

After you delete the page, just save the document in the original format and come back to Word for the final touches.

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