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Why doesn't a 17cm x 25cm picture fit on a 17cm x 25cm page?
Why doesn't this tikz picture fit on the first page of the document?
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[showframe, centering, text={17cm, 25cm}]{geometry}
\begin{document}
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4
votes
0answers
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Align TikZ grid with geometry crop marks
I am drawing a grid on top of the layout defined with geometry.
\documentclass[letter]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
showcrop,
paper = a4paper,
layout = a5paper,
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3
votes
1answer
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Manipulating isosceles triangle
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}
\usepgflibrary{decorations.shapes}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.shapes, shapes, fit, arrows, ...
6
votes
1answer
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A perpendicular line to a plane in 3D
I have two line segments identified by two end points each. Two line segments are in the same plane and intersecting at a point. I would like to draw a line (normal of the plane) passing through the ...
4
votes
1answer
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Pgfplots gives spurious lines in external mode with geometry
This is not a major problem but all the same I would like to confirm that I am not doing anything wrong. Geometry package with showframe=true option is used to see if all the figures are within the ...
2
votes
1answer
451 views
Setting coordinate system for TiKZ picture
I'd like to use TiKZ to generate stand-alone PDF diagrams programatically. I have an application that generates simple geometry of lines and arcs etc and I'd like to create (using e.g. Ruby) TikZ ...
14
votes
2answers
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Printing/typesetting two A4 pages from a single-page A3 document in TikZ
I'm currently working on a huge graph using a A3 format, with the landscape option. I don't usually work on A3 pages, but this is not a mistake. I purposefully chose this format because it's made of ...
7
votes
0answers
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Visualizing correct page lengths with 'layouts' and 'tikz' packages?
I am currently working on a project with xelatex/fontspec and tikz, and so, this example is basically the same as the one from layouts package reads all length as zero with tikz/fontspec/xelatex?.
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11
votes
3answers
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Fitting page size to a tikz figure
Sometimes I'm using tikz as a plotting tool, without embedding the figure in a document. In this case, I normally, want to include the resulting PDF in a different TeX file (yes I know I could include ...
