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When I try to use \tikzmark (actually, any feature that relies on the [remember picture] functionality of TikZ) in the WYSIWYG editor BaKoMa TeX, I get the following warning:

Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-dvips.def does not support marking the current position. This warning is given only once on input line 24.

and the desired output is not rendered.

According to the developer of BaKoMa, this is an issue with the dvips driver of the PGF package, and not with BaKoMa editor.

Is this truly a bug of the PGF package? If so, is there a work-around before an official patch is available?

An example to illustrate how the problem looks like:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{Title}

\tikz[remember picture] \node[circle,fill=red!50] (n1) {};
something

\bigskip

\centering

\tikz[remember picture] \node[fill=blue!50] (n2) {};

\bigskip

\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture]
  \node (c) [circle,draw] {Big circle};
  \draw [overlay,->,very thick,red,opacity=.5]
    (c) to[bend left] (n1) (n1) |- (n2);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

Output via BaKoMa enter image description here

Output via TeXworks (with pdflatex) enter image description here

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  • Your example works for me using latex-dvips-ps2pdf so there is no problem with a current pgf system using dvips. Texlive 2013 has /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/systemlayer/pgfsys-dvips.de File: pgfsys-dvips.def 2008/04/03 (rcs-revision 1.20) which version is shown in your log?
    – David Carlisle
    Oct 2, 2013 at 18:56
  • I get the same as David Carlisle using the CVS version of PGF, so this looks like the version of PGF that you have is old. Can you update it?
    – Andrew Stacey
    Oct 2, 2013 at 18:57
  • Note that your latex command must be pdflatex running in dvi mode as the whole feature relies on the \pdflastxpos feature. If you are using a classic TeX engine it can not work (but don't do that)
    – David Carlisle
    Oct 2, 2013 at 19:00
  • @DavidCarlisle: BaKoMa maintains its own LaTeX distribution, and I use MikTeX with TeXworks. In both distributions, however, the pgfsys-dvips.def has the same version as yours, v 1.20 2008/04/03 17:04:45. When I compile in command line using latex mwe.tex twice, I get the desired result in mwe.dvi. But I still get the wrong output with BaKoMa...
    – Herr K.
    Oct 2, 2013 at 19:50
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    You need at least pdftex in dvi mode as it requires a primitive to save position which is not available in tex or etex but is in pdftex or luatex or xetex. All modern systems use pdftex for latex as well as pdflatex.
    – David Carlisle
    Oct 2, 2013 at 20:55

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BaKoMa TeX 10.60 (published 14 Nov 2014) supports this feature.

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