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Is there a definite place where TikZ manual can be found online?

I am only finding version 2.00, while I keep loosing the link to 2.10.

Does the official site host the manual somewhere, or is it only available in the zip? Any help appreciated.

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The place to look would be ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf. – Peter Grill Mar 27 '12 at 20:31
Wow, thanks! Can you put it as an answer - I am sure it will be useful to others. – drozzy Mar 27 '12 at 20:33

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The place to look for the PGF manual would be the CTAN directory: /graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf.

The link Package pgf: Create PostScript and PDF graphics in TeX only has a minimal introductory manual.

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You could also use the web site that Stefan Kottwitz and Paulo Cereda recently put together. Just enter

http://texdoc.net/pkg/<packagename>

into your browser's address field and you'll automatically be taken to the right place. So in your case, go to http://texdoc.net/pkg/tikz or http://texdoc.net/pkg/pgf, they both lead to the manual, version 2.10.

Joseph Wright wrote about this service on our blog: TeX documentation online: texdoc.net

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Amazing, how come I never knew about this before damn it. – drozzy Mar 27 '12 at 20:49
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FWIW, entering texdoc pgf on the command line will open your locally installed PGF manual, too. – krlmlr Mar 27 '12 at 20:55
@drozzy Well, it's just a week or two since texdoc.net was launched. – Torbjørn T. Mar 27 '12 at 21:45
@user946850 FWIT = For What It's Worth. Was that so hard? Also, I'm getting "No viewer associated with this file type" error in windows... :-( – drozzy Mar 28 '12 at 1:58
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@drozzy: There is! Check out texdoc.net. – doncherry Mar 28 '12 at 8:33
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If you want a CVS version of pgf tikz, I put on my site altermundus the complete archive with the documentation and the changelog (it's the version of 24/01:2012) I will put the last one in a few days.

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That is pretty cool! However, I use Miketex - which gets this stuff for me automagically; also I don't want to have different versions running on different machines. – drozzy Mar 28 '12 at 1:57
You can look only at the new pgfmanual to see what will be the future ! – Alain Matthes Mar 28 '12 at 5:09

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