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just enter the full path for the bib file
or relative path (assume you have: then you can write: in your thesis.tex, it will understand

I found the answer

add a new length command:
\newlength{\imagewidth} % the name can be chosen, e.g. picwidth...
Before using \imagewidth , set the width of image to it by
\settowidth{\imagewidth}{\includegraphics{yourimage}}
When using in calculation, remember to add {} , like this ...

I have the same question, but not an answer :(

---------------GOT THE ANSWER-----------
1. add a new length command:
\newlength{\imagewidth} % the name can be chosen, e.g. picwidth...

2. before using \imagewidth, set the width of image to it by:
\settowidth{\imagewidth}{\includegraphics{yourimage ...

I want to crop images (which can be done by the option 'trim = l b r t'). This means I need to know the absolute size (in points or cm or inch ...) to set the parameters for the option 'trim'.

I can look at the image for the real size, but it is not convenient because I have a lot of images. Does ...

it works perfectly
Thank you very much, Thorsten

Hello, I got the problem again :(

\renewcommand{\figurename}{\bf Figure} works perfectly until I installed Miktex 2.8 and winedt5.6, which makes the whole caption bold. I just want to bold 'Figure <number>'.

I tried \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\bf figure} and it makes bold also the figure number in ...

Thanks for your reply, Juanjo!
The pdfcomment does offer bars next to the text. However, the bars should not be longer than 1 page. Thus, it is difficult to apply.

By the way, I found a solution with changebar.sty. It works perfectly for all I need. Bars on left or right, color, thickness... can be ...

Hi, I need to create a line on left border for some paragraphs in a report. These paragraphs may include figs, tables, formula... and are not continuous. The purpose of the lines is to mark newly-added parts of my report, so that my prof can easily trace them. Thus, other tricks may be ok.

I was ...

Thank you very much.

That's the perfect answer. I knew that I was wrong, not Latex but I did not know what it was.

Hai

Thanks Thorsten for your reply. Here are the pics and the MWE and the pdf result as well.