About LaTeX, standalone, PDF and PNG
1 LaTeX and the document format 2 Exporting documents from PDF to PNG. 3 Exporting images from PDF to PNG. 4 Examples 1 LaTeX and the document format As, of course, you all already know (:smiley:), LaTeX is a language dedicated to the typesetting of documents with state-of-the-art quality. It is, therefore, unnecessary to note that the basics of LaTeX can be learned in about 30 minutes, as illustrated in this page . For the purposes of this article, it is sufficient to recall that sources in LaTeX are composed of a preliminary part, also called the preamble , and the document with the contents. The format of documents generated by LaTeX is defined at the beginning of the preamble with the command \documentclass . The (probably) most widely used classes, such as article , report and book , produce documents in formats with predetermined sizes, specified by specific options, such as A4 (