I want to embed an image within a tikzpicture environment. 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}
but both pictures are placed at upper-left corner of image, at the same position. I tried including them inside nodes as well, to no avail.
What am I doing wrong?
The prefered way to embed external pictures in a tikzpicture environment is to insert an \includegraphics{...} inside a \node. See the code below for an example.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[inner sep=0pt] (russell) at (0,0)
{\includegraphics[width=.25\textwidth]{bertrand_russell.jpg}};
\node[inner sep=0pt] (whitehead) at (5,-6)
{\includegraphics[width=.25\textwidth]{alfred_north_whitehead.jpg}};
\draw[<->,thick] (russell.south east) -- (whitehead.north west)
node[midway,fill=white] {Principia Mathematica};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Links to the original pictures:
inner sep=10pt (for example) and recompile. inner sep=0pt tells TikZ to make the node's bounding box as tight as possible around the image.
\node (myfirstpic) at (0,0) {\includegraphics{pic1.png}};