How to use \tikzmark with pLaTeX?

Question

Usually I use the standard latex from MiKTeX when i use TikZ, which works good. But now I need to use platex from w32tex instead to include Japanese characters, which gives me the error:

Package pgf Warning: Your graphic driver pgfsys-dvips.def does not support marking the current position.

with a reference to the first line I use \tikzmark.

Answer 1

I'm afraid that you are (probably) out of luck. Marking position requires pdfTeX primitives (or derivatives thereof), and pTeX doesn't have them.

Answer 2

Actually modern pTeX (e-pTeX) implements \pdfsavepos and you can use marking in TikZ/pgf. TikZ/pgf raises the error because it does not know that this feature exist in pTeX. You can solve this problem by using the pxpgfmark package.

Here is the method using dvipdfmx as a DVI driver:

1. Add dvipdfmx to the global option (option of \documentclass).
2. Add \usepackage{pxpgfmark} after TikZ or pgf.
3. Compile with platex, which is alias to eplatex.
4. Convert the DVI file with dvipdfmx.