Including a Tikz picture into another [duplicate]

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I want to insert a TikZ picture into a TikZ graphic, is it possible?

Basically there is a box for every chapter header and I want to add a logo inside this box.

The TikZ code is a little weird but does it produce the desired result?

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,fleqn]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}  % If i disable this and every thing else labled with [A]
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% [A]
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}   
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{mydarkgray}{RGB}{0,100,100}
\newcommand{\mytemplatecolor}{mydarkgray}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\newcommand*\chapterlabel{}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]  % type (section,chapter,etc...) to vary,  shape (eg display-type)
%{\normalfont\bfseries\Huge} % and enable this ander very the other line   labled with [B] 
{\Huge\bfseries\sffamily\color{\mytemplatecolor}\fontspec[]{MetaBoldLF-Roman}} % [A]
{\gdef\chapterlabel{\thechapter\ }}     % the label 
{0pt} % separation between label and chapter-title
{\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[yshift=-8cm,xshift=0cm] at (current page.north west)
{\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
    \draw[fill=\mytemplatecolor,\mytemplatecolor] (0,0) rectangle(35.5mm,15mm);% Neu um es grau zu machen
    \node[anchor=north east,yshift=-7.2cm,xshift=34mm,minimum height=30mm,inner sep=0mm] at (current page.north west)
    {\parbox[top][30mm][t]{15mm}{\raggedleft $\phantom{\textrm{l}}$\color{white}\chapterlabel}};  %the black l is just to get better base-line alingement
    \node[anchor=north west,yshift=-7.2cm,xshift=37mm,text width=\textwidth,minimum height=30mm,inner sep=0mm] at (current page.north west)
    {\parbox[top][30mm][t]{\textwidth}{\color{\mytemplatecolor}#1}};
    \end{tikzpicture}
};
\end{tikzpicture}
\gdef\chapterlabel{}
} % code before the title body
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{-98pt}{38pt}{30pt} % [A]
%\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{50pt}{30pt} %[B]  than i do not need any offse here?
\begin{document}
\chapter{A Chapter} 
Tickz created this rectangle for my chapter headers.....


now i want to include this Logo:\\

{\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.80pt, x=0.80pt, yscale=-1.000000, xscale=1.000000, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\path[draw=black,fill=black,line join=miter,line cap=round,miter
limit=4.00,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line width=0.000pt]
(178.4915,651.0411) .. controls (178.0358,651.0411) and (177.5801,651.0411) ..
(177.1244,651.0411) .. controls (177.1244,652.6787) and (177.1244,654.3163) ..
(177.1244,655.9539) .. controls (177.5801,655.9539) and (178.0358,655.9539) ..
(178.4915,655.9539) .. controls (178.4915,654.3163) and (178.4915,652.6787) ..
(178.4915,651.0411) -- cycle;
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,draw=black,fill=black,line join=miter,line
cap=round,miter limit=4.00,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line
width=0.000pt,rounded corners=0.0000cm] (-182.0794,658.5070) rectangle
(-177.1244,660.6401);
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,draw=black,fill=black,line join=miter,line
cap=round,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line width=0.000pt,rounded
corners=0.0000cm] (-280.8165,679.2454) rectangle (-193.6939,684.6964);
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,fill=black,nonzero rule,rounded
corners=0.0000cm] (-280.8165,694.2955) rectangle (-177.1245,696.3244);
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,draw=black,fill=black,line join=miter,line
cap=round,miter limit=4.00,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line
width=0.000pt,rounded corners=0.0000cm] (-280.8165,716.4833) rectangle
(-177.1245,721.9073);
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,draw=black,fill=black,line join=miter,line
cap=round,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line width=0.000pt,rounded
corners=0.0000cm] (-185.6345,669.1724) rectangle (-177.1244,673.9126);
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\\

into the box for the chapter headers with the same height and the width     scaled accordingly, so the image is not distorted.


\end{document}  

It would be very nice if you could teach me how to do this! It would be preferable if the logo would always appear at the left border of the box (left page border) for the chapter header, and I could individually scale its size.

Answer 1

Since all the elements have the same y location, I put them into a scope. Note that the resizing and color=white had to be done while defining the savebox. Once a box it set, you can't change it (much).

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,fleqn]{book}
%\usepackage{fontspec}  % If i disable this and every thing else labled with [A]
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% [A]
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}% not with my editor
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{mydarkgray}{RGB}{0,100,100}
\newcommand{\mytemplatecolor}{mydarkgray}

\usepackage{tikz}

\newsavebox{\logo}
\savebox{\logo}{\resizebox{!}{15mm}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.80pt, x=0.80pt, yscale=-1.000000, xscale=1.000000, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\path[draw=white,fill=white,line join=miter,line cap=round,miter
limit=4.00,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line width=0.000pt]
(178.4915,651.0411) .. controls (178.0358,651.0411) and (177.5801,651.0411) ..
(177.1244,651.0411) .. controls (177.1244,652.6787) and (177.1244,654.3163) ..
(177.1244,655.9539) .. controls (177.5801,655.9539) and (178.0358,655.9539) ..
(178.4915,655.9539) .. controls (178.4915,654.3163) and (178.4915,652.6787) ..
(178.4915,651.0411) -- cycle;
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,draw=white,fill=white,line join=miter,line
cap=round,miter limit=4.00,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line
width=0.000pt,rounded corners=0.0000cm] (-182.0794,658.5070) rectangle
(-177.1244,660.6401);
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,draw=white,fill=white,line join=miter,line
cap=round,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line width=0.000pt,rounded
corners=0.0000cm] (-280.8165,679.2454) rectangle (-193.6939,684.6964);
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,fill=white,nonzero rule,rounded
corners=0.0000cm] (-280.8165,694.2955) rectangle (-177.1245,696.3244);
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,draw=white,fill=white,line join=miter,line
cap=round,miter limit=4.00,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line
width=0.000pt,rounded corners=0.0000cm] (-280.8165,716.4833) rectangle
(-177.1245,721.9073);
\path[xscale=-1.000,yscale=1.000,draw=white,fill=white,line join=miter,line
cap=round,nonzero rule,dash phase=3.000pt,line width=0.000pt,rounded
corners=0.0000cm] (-185.6345,669.1724) rectangle (-177.1244,673.9126);
\end{tikzpicture}}}

\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\newcommand*\chapterlabel{}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]  % type (section,chapter,etc...) to vary,  shape (eg display-type)
%{\normalfont\bfseries\Huge} % and enable this ander very the other line   labled with [B] 
{\Huge\bfseries\sffamily\color{\mytemplatecolor}}%\fontspec[]{MetaBoldLF-Roman}} % [A]
{\gdef\chapterlabel{\thechapter\ }}     % the label 
{0pt} % separation between label and chapter-title
{\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
  \path (current page.north west) ++(0pt,-7.2cm) coordinate(title);
  \begin{scope}[shift=(title)]
    \draw[fill=\mytemplatecolor,\mytemplatecolor] (0,0) rectangle (35.5mm,-15mm);% Neu um es grau zu machen
    \node[anchor=north west,inner sep=0pt] {\usebox{\logo}};
    \node[anchor=north east,xshift=34mm,minimum height=30mm,inner sep=0mm]
    {\parbox[top][30mm][t]{15mm}{\raggedleft $\phantom{\textrm{l}}$\color{white}\chapterlabel}};  %the black l is just to get better base-line alingement
    \node[anchor=north west,xshift=37mm,text width=\textwidth,minimum height=30mm,inner sep=0mm]
    {\parbox[top][30mm][t]{\textwidth}{\color{\mytemplatecolor}#1}};
  \end{scope}
 \end{tikzpicture}
\gdef\chapterlabel{}
} % code before the title body
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{-98pt}{38pt}{30pt} % [A]
%\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{50pt}{30pt} %[B]  than i do not need any offse here?
\begin{document}
\chapter{A Chapter} 

\end{document}