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How do I embed an external image within tikzpicture?
I tried the following:
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
\pgftext{\includegraphics[width=150pt]{pic1.png}} at (0pt,0pt);
\pgftext{\includegraphics[width=150pt]{pic2.png}} at (100pt,0);
\end{tikzpicture}
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Text decoration is trimmed off with standalone package
I am decorating an arc with text as shown in this MWE using the standalone class:
\documentclass[10pt,class=article]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text}
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'Figure' in tikz makes image move 'forward'
I have a weird problem, whereby if I make my existing tikz picture a 'figure', it suddenly moves forward, as in, past the paragraph that comes after it in the code.
That is, if the code that makes ...
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Insert text inside a image in eps format
UPDATE:I tried the solution with overpic and it works fine. But the problem is, sometimes, my experimental setup changes and I have to reproduce the eps file using different parameters from Matlab. ...
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Color and efficient vector graphics
I want to use complex monocolor vector graphics but I would like to be able to specify the color inside my latex source. Solutions :
Use a pdf, but I can't specify the color afterwards. Perhaps a ...
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Drawing a grid on each image inside the array of images
Please see what I have written,when I need individual grid on each of picture inside my figure-array. In contrast to previews question Drawing a grid on array of images. Question now is why I can't ...
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Drawing a grid on array of images
I have nice story to tell with pictures. There Maltese type cross which is processing and twisting at the same time. So to make it more visual in paper i need grid something like this Drawing on an ...
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Can fuzzy borders be added to external pictures programmatically?
In my opinion, external pictures are often more pleasing to the eye on a white background when they have fuzzy rather than "sharp" borders. For instance, compare this
to that
Adding fuzzy ...
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Drawing a 3D cone
I want to create some thing like this ,
but instead of a box, I use another object (a dog silhouette). Here is what I have so far
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{scope}[scale=0.25, xshift=70, ...
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Draw a grid for obtaining coordinates to pass to includegraphics' viewport option
I want to include only parts of an image.
For this, I use the viewport option of graphicx's includegraphics.
To find the coordinates, I go by trial and error, adapting the viewport argument until I ...
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Blurry Show Background
I am trying to create a frame for each of my figures. Something's like this - a plain white rounded rectangle with a blurry shadow.
Could this be done in latex? Could you show me how?
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How to eliminate spacing in tikzpicture?
It seems that, when using Tikz, nodes and/or the tikzpicture environment add space around a drawing. An example is shown in the following MWE, where a simple square is drawn three times. First it is ...
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Disable “clip” and “use as bounding box” in TikZ
Problem
I use a tool which generates TikZ-Code (R with tikzDevice, to be precise). But the generated picture has a wide white border which I want to remove. When I manually (or with a script) remove ...
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Making a family of graphs in TikZ by a few definitions
I am trying to make in TikZ a family of graphs, as in included pictures. I can make them one by one, using nodes (circle/square/triangle, black/white) and joining them. However it seems to me, that ...
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Create a Frequency Allocation Diagram
I need to reproduce a frequency allocation diagram in TeX. I prefer TikZ but open to PSTricks. I can create a simple bar allocation char using \node but unsure how to create layered blocks like the ...
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How to elegantly create a pyramid hierarchy in tikz
I want to create a pyramid hierarchy in tikz with smooth sides (unlike this step-pyramid) and place text in each level. Shown below is how I am currently doing this, is there a better way?
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How to make an image for backgrounds with exact A4 dimensions?
In order to make a background image that fits the page perfectly, I have tried two things. The first is to use a document class where the dimensions of the page can be set to that of A4, which ...
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Tikz code: Cartesian space vs hough space [closed]
I would like to write down using tikz the following graphs.
It would be great and extremely helpful if someone could post me the code.
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Drawing a silhouette cone with tikz
I am trying to draw something like this
but with a more fancy object, instead of a square, say a bunny or a human (whose silhouette's contour points I exported from an image). I know I need to ...
3
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1answer
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Bad label placing in kiviat diagram
Shouldn't resizebox should resize the label along with the whole picture? How can I avoid the label put above the arrow? (Other than rotating the image, which I don't want to do.)
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TIKZ drawing Gaussian Blur
I am a complete newbie to latex and have been working on thesis. At the moment, I am trying to draw this
and have no idea how to start. I did some google and found out that tikz is very popular for ...
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2answers
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How to shift graphics/adjust placement of figure with \includegraphics
I composed a diagram that takes up the entire sheet of paper in landscape mode, called diagram.tex (compiled it to generate pdf). I'm trying to include that into an article, but only half of it is ...
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What is the “#” for in TikZ?
I am a newbie and I asked in How to create rectangles like in this example? about how to make some rectangles. I am trying to read the code and understand it as I need rectangles rather than squares. ...
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Selecting specific nodes and changing style (for those nodes)
Is it possible to select specific nodes and color them green?
I was thinking of using another for loop, but it doesn't seem like I can define more than 1 style.
\documentclass{article}
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Fixing ordering of nodes and color (TikZ)
This is my first time using TikZ. I can't figure out how to change the ordering of the nodes from bottom up starting from the bottom left corner?
Also, when I try to use package xcolor midnightblue ...
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Drawing on multiple images inside the same tikzpicture, how to get the right transformation of coordinates?
Following Drawing on an image with TikZ, I've had many succesful instances of drawing on a picture with TikZ.
However, now I have a tikzpicture environment with several graphics, and I want to draw ...
5
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Typesetting straight baselines in a circular arrangement
I was wondering how one might go about setting the circular arrangement seen here in Figure "(2)"--i.e.,in a series of straight lines radiating from a central point.
The most useful thing I've ...
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TikZ: using a bitmaps's dimensions as global bounding box
I'm using a tikzpicture environment to draw on a bitmap image in order to add annotations. I'm setting the width of my bitmap to \textwidth. I want to add annotations in the left or right margins of ...
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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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Insert jpg image in the margin of beamer slide
I am using the Goettingen theme (beamer). I want to insert a jpg file in the margin (bottom right) of the current frame. I also want the image to be semi-transparent. Please help.
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Encircle an arrow in TikZ [duplicate]
I'm preparing some lecture notes and have some trouble creating an encircled arrow like the one in the picture.
What I'd like to do is to create an elliptic shape around an arrow defined in TikZ ...
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Tikz add arrows to multiple segments of a `\draw` command
I'm drawing an org chart and I'd like to have arrows pointing to each of the nodes I do so. I'm also lazily using a single draw command to draw a line from each of the nodes as the last part of my ...
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Tikz externalize: use external PDF or render by tikz, do not create external PDF
I have texlive 2012 and tikz. Is it possible to get the following behavior?
With external library to tikz, use external image, if it is available. However, if it is not available, render the ...
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Producing TikZ-made .pdfs and using /includegraphics on them?
I'm helping TeX a professor's handwritten notes for publishing/pre-print purposes, and for producing certain graphics, I use PGF/TikZ. However, it seems he is having trouble compiling the code ...
2
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Background image from tikzpicture does not fit the whole page
For a poster, I would like to have an image fill the whole page. This image is supposed to be drawn within a tikz environment as my other content. However, graphicx seems to fail at rescaling when the ...
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Can I place a caption inside of an image?
I've recently seen this the following image in this question:
As I was looking for a way to create nice captions (without the "Figure:") for a beamer presentation, I wondered if it was possible to ...
2
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how to get the size of a \pgfdeclareimage
Basically I want to use a TikZ node to frame a pgfimage, so later on, I will add more and connect them as I see fit.
I have this:
\pgfdeclareimage[width=10em]{image1}{images/image1}
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how to make a cog/gear in LaTeX?
I was wondering what would be a good way to make this in LaTeX. Basically, what I want to do with this is use it as a chapter heading. So basically it will be something like this:
cog chapter # ...
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How to draw a graph along with probabilty tables using TikZ package
I need help to draw a Directed Acyclic Graph of Bayesian Network along with probability of each node using TikZ package. Here is an example:
Table grid can be a full or partial as in above example.
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What is the easiest way to plot a function and its tangent lines at the turning points?
I want to plot graphs like this and embed them as Tikz or Pstricks code in my handouts. I know that there are software such as Ipe, LaTeXDraw etc. But none of them can satisfy me. Because Ipe doesn't ...
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Why does loading tikz before calling “driver=dvips” make a difference
This question doesn't entirely make sense because I know I don't need to call driver=dvips. But I would like to know whether anyone can explain what's happening.
A little background
I'm trying to ...
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How to top (horizontally) align rows of tikz nodes in an org chart graphic
Apologies for the long MWE and what seems like a slightly duplicated question. I've looked at the question/awnser how to top align rectangles and align tikz node with text about using baseline to top ...
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How to create a fancy badge (award graphics) in LaTeX? [closed]
Is it possible to create fancy badges in LaTeX? Are there any packages for this?
Below are some examples:
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A Tunisian flag on Tikz using a macro “m-grams”
I tried to represent the flag of my country.
I typed this code. But I believe that the position of stars, circles, ... is not so respected. In addition I have a left margin "white band" I want to ...
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Drawing a partitioned set with TikZ
I'd like to create a graphic of a set partitioned into subsets of various sizes/shapes/colors. (I'm trying to show a set partitioned by an equivalence relation into disjoint subsets, i.e., the ...
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How to draw graphs in tikz/latex? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using LaTeX to draw time series graphs and histograms
I have never drawn any graphs in latex/tikz. What is the best and the simplest way to draw graphs in latex. I want ...
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How to rearrange a tikzpicture in a page that uses the class suftesi
I drew an ER schema for a database and put it in my mini-thesis written using suftesi. This class has the peculiarity of adding a mini-column beside the main column of contents, used for notes. This ...
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Tikz: Avoiding line segments in snake path
I am using tikz to draw Feynman diagrams, and I learned how to draw a curved snake path.
The problem is that in general line segments are present (I'd like to avoid them).
I found a couple of post ...
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How to draw visual representation of relations with TikZ
My included graphics are too blurry so I decided to find out, how to draw the following four graphics in TikZ. I never really worked with TikZ, so can someone explain how to draw such graphics?
