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No catch, I started the website as a free resource of LaTeX templates because one didn't exist and I intend to keep template downloads free. All current templates are licensed under creative commons. I do have a few plans for how I can capitalize on the website but templates will always be available for free download and I despise ad-ridden websites so that won't be happening either. If you have any ideas send me an email!

It is getting more and more popular and I am making a little bit of money from it, but it is primarily for the masses. If you like the work please consider donating through Flattr, or better yet, take out an advertisement ;)

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This editor is incredible. How did you make it? Can I see the un-minified source code somewhere? I want to learn how to make this.

From the about page, they are separate people:

https://spandex.io/about

http://www.latextemplates.com/about

Nevertheless, I want to make this editor. How?

They are using the ace editor: http://ace.ajax.org/

There's some bootstrap and other jazz, and obviously a server-side component to perform the LaTeX rendering

Thanks! What are they using for the PDF viewer?

pdf.js: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

NOTE: If you do decide to build your own thing, I think it would be cool if you could run LaTeX in the browser directly (I guess you could do this by building pdflatex with emscripten)

Your guess is 100% correct: http://manuels.github.com/texlive.js/website/ (Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5083361)

Works in chrome for mac, but falters on iPad (even though http://caniuse.com/#search=worker says webworkers are supported)

Thank you. Do you know how they did the "intros" -- the dark overlay with popups that point out various buttons / explain concepts? Are they using intro.js, something else, or something they made themselves but haven't released yet?

Also, could you provide more detail about what you mean by "run LaTeX in the browser directly"? It sounds like a fun challenge.

Intros: https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS

"run LaTeX in the browser directly": Right now it appears to send data back to their servers to compile every time. What would be cool, especially for offline work, is a pure-JS implementation of the rendering engine.

Good-looking web site too!

Unless forced to do otherwise, I always use the memoir document class and compile with xelatex. I've found that to be the best way to get access to fancy features. What about you, who do much more advanced stuff, is that something you use for your templates?

Good work!!!

Are there black and white poster templates? Color printing of posters is expensive and not necessary in many cases.

Usually you can instruct your (color) printer to print in black and white, and it will print in various shades of grey.

You can also do this in acrobat (print to Adobe PDF using black and white)

Typically, people print large posters at places like FedEx Kinko. Converting color posters to B&W ones, although sound trivial conceptually, sometimes poses a practical challenge. One is you don't exactly know how the color posters will look in black and white.

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