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Why is centering a TikZ picture from an external file not the same as a centering a .png figure?
Why can't I put a Tikz picture inside \makebox?
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\makebox[\textwidth][c]{\includegraphics[width=.8\textwidth]{./Figures/chapter5/procedure_contacts.pdf}}
\end{figure}
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Trouble including a Matlab surf plot (pdf or png) with pgfplots
I have successfully used \addplot graphics before. Now I have a surf plot in Matlab, which I exported as png and pdf and I would like to include the image with \addplot3 graphics.
I found some ...
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Loop Over Grid File
I have a grid file with data such as:
5
4
0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 2 0
0 2 2 1 0
3 0 0 3 1
where 5 is the width of the grid, 4 is the height, and each number in the grid corresponds to an elevation. I can ...
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External graphics and tikz externalize won't work together
I am using the tikz library external a lot and with success - so far. Now, I need to import an external file (eps, png, pdf... I don't care), and add the axes. I know I can do this with \addplot ...
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pdflatex does not overwrite existing PDF files upon compilation when using TikZ external
I have a LaTeX/pgf/TikZ file that I'm trying to compile. I included the library external so that I could export the file. However, the problem is that \tikzexternalize apparently doesn't have a ...
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How to create and include .tikz files in your manuscript?
Recently, I learnt about the matlab code matlab2tikz. The output of this code is a .tikz file that can be used, I guess, alongside standard figure packages with a simple line \input{mysphere.tikz} in ...
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Outsourcing TikZ code
My Tex files get very confusing since I have multiple long TikZ code in them.
How do you organize your files when it comes to TikZ?
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Why does \includegraphics fail when using TikZ's externalization?
I'm trying to use \includegraphics and the auto-pst-pdf package to convert and import an EPS file, but when I enable TikZ's external library, \includegraphics fails with an error message:
Package ...
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Applying TikZ options stored in a file
I need to set some TikZ options that have been written to a file by a script.
I thought I could use a helper macro defined with \edef and the expandable version of \input as described in Why is ...
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How to import ASCII coordinates to TikZ
I have a long file of Brazil coordinates like:
(-3.43,-0.56) -- (-3.44,-0.56) -- (-3.44,-0.55) -- (-3.50,-0.55) -- (-3.52,-0.55) ...
and I want to import then into a tikzpicture environment to use ...
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TikZ read out file
I have a file called assocFile.dat. The file has the following format:
0/b
1/d
2/f
3/h
I want to use this file to draw nodes (however it would be nice if this question can be ...
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Wrong TikZ filepaths when included used input
I'm using TikZ for my thesis but have run into a small problem. In order to maintain some overview of the main tex file I have split all images into separate TikZ files (This also allows me to edit ...
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Scaling a TikZ figure from an external file
I would like to insert figures which were created with TikZ to my LaTeX document.
I suppose that if I create the TikZ figure inside the document, that wouldn't be a problem - I'd just play with the ...
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Data from file as list in \foreach in Tikz
I have data stored in files I named x.dat and y.dat. In the file are two columns and each row stands for one point. These points I plot in the beginning. But then I want some arrows from the x-points ...
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pgfplots from file: search path, looking for \graphicspath equivalent
I have recently discovered the wonderful pgfplots package and I've started coding my Python code to output tabular data of whatever is plotted (at least for simple plots).
In my LaTeX source code, I ...
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Using external tables in TikZ
How do I use tabela.xls as a data source to a LaTeX table or even a table made with TikZ with the following command?
Note: I wanted to use tabela.xls as a data source for multiple files. Tex and that ...
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Find a extremal value in external data file with pgfplot
Basically I'm plotting many curves stacked one after the other in pseudo 3D to show transient behaviors. I need every x axis to be at the same place so I use a ymin and ymax optional entry for the ...
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Drawing different tikz shapes parameterized by data from a file
I have a file with three columns of data, x, y, r.
# x y r
1 1 0.1
2 2 0.5
3 3 1.2
and so on. I'd like to loop over the rows, and draw a circle at x,y with radius r for each row.
I first thought ...
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Tikz externalize + macro's ? Or how would you do it?
I'm currently building courses for some of my college teachers. The aim is to make their Word/MS paint generated study material into high grade Latex/Tikz material.
I'm aiming for high consistency in ...
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Externalize eps figure with TikZ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Export eps figures from TikZ
How make externalize EPS figure with TikZ?
