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Avoiding auto-align issues while cropping in PowerPoint

by corwinolsonPosted on Posted in General, Technical Tips — No Comments ↓

Recently I’ve been working on a PowerPoint presentation that has images which fit the width of the slide.  I wanted to make a set of images, each on a successive slide, consistent with each other (making the axes on the plots appear constant as I moved from slide to slide).  However, I needed to crop the images very precisely to accomplish this.  When I attempted to do this, the auto-align feature in PowerPoint prevented me from cropping a small amount beyond the slide, which is what I needed.

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Setting the default font for data tips in MATLAB

by corwinolsonPosted on Posted in Technical Tips — 2 Comments ↓

For quite some time I thought that it was impossible to change the font size of the data tips you can add to plots in MATLAB.  This was very frustrating because I would use these figures in reports and the font on the data tip would be almost illegible.   So I started digging deeper on Google and experimenting, trying to find a way to increase this font.   Read more ›

Removing Excess Space Above and Below Figure Captions in LaTeX

by corwinolsonPosted on Posted in Technical Tips — 1 Comment ↓

I recently started learning and using LaTeX for a conference paper I’m writing, after years of resisting the advice of friends to use it instead of Microsoft Word.  Some things have been easy, and some things have been really tough to figure out.  One tough thing that took me a while to figure out, and which I had to piece together from several desperate Google page results, is how to get rid of that very annoying excessive white space above and below captions for figure floats in LaTeX.

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