General ⇒ Get current Position in PDF output

[andreabm]

Hi all,

Lets say I've created a certain element in my LaTeX document (figure, tabular, text...), how is it possible to get the element's position (respective to the page coordinates) rendered at the output PDF? Thank you!

[localghost]

You should at least tell us which editor you are using. TeXworks for example uses the SyncTeX technology and is adequately pre-configured.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[andreabm]

Thank you for your help! I'm not using any specific editor, actually. I've tried using SyncTeX, as you suggested, and I've seen that it prints the page coordinates of all the elements of the tex file. Do you know if it's possible to specify, in the tex file, only some elements for which I want this information?
For example, suppose I include two pictures in a large document with many elements. I wish I could know only the coordinates in which the pictures will be rendered in the pdf page. Something like "picture 1 rendered at xx position, picture 2 rendered at xx position". Is it clear?

[localghost]

This is not the purpose of SyncTeX. And I'm not aware of something that provides what you want. Seems that i slightly misunderstood your question or missed some details, respectively. If you compile to DVI and further to PS, then at least GSview/Ghostscript shows the coordinates on a page where the mouse cursor is. This might be an intermediate solution.