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How can I punch cut an alphanumeric character, say, "A" out of an image, so that I have only the interior of a large bold "A" showing the contents of the image?

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    Welcome! What have you tried? Why don't you prepare the image in the graphics programme of your choice and then just include it with \includegraphics? There really isn't any reason to spend time computing this during compilation, surely? – cfr Aug 23 '17 at 03:58
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    Even if the image is a tikz picture you could still do as @cfr suggests by compiling just the picture as standalone. But there are cases in which you might want to do it programmatically (some sort of fancy chapter number graphic, or a date) so I for one is be interested to see a a TeX solution. More common words would be clip or mask – Chris H Aug 23 '17 at 07:05
  • I have to say though, that the acepted answer there doesn't work for me at the moment – Chris H Aug 23 '17 at 09:13
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    The accepted answer fails for me because evince for windows can't display it, not because there's anything wrong with the answer. However I recommend an alternative using transparency group=knockout] (see section 23.5 of the TikZ manual) – Chris H Aug 23 '17 at 09:29

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