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I am having troubles with TexStudio making pie charts with the pgf-pie package. I literally copied a fragment of this template: https://es.overleaf.com/latex/examples/drawing-pie-charts-with-pgf-pie/bjghbcfkrdvn

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf-pie}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pie{10/A, 20/B, 30/C, 40/D}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

enter image description here

The log only shows the following message: Overfull \hbox (1033.10823pt too wide) in paragraph

As you can see the result is not the expected one, first because it does not show any pie chard, and secondo of all it should be something like this (done through Overleaf): **enter image description here**

Does anybody knows how to fix this error?

Thank you for reading and for your Help.

David.

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  • Just to add: I have already updated all MiKTeX packages, and reinstalled TeXstudio 2.12.14. I also try to compile the example in another computer, and It worked, but in mine, it does not. I also tried this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/378649/…, but the weird text is still there. – David Cano Jan 10 '19 at 2:32
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    it seems that pgf-pie is broken or not compatible anymore with recent tikz. – Zarko Jan 10 '19 at 3:10
  • (not only reinstalled TeXstudio but also MiKTeX, gsview and ghostscript). – David Cano Jan 10 '19 at 3:42
  • Zarko, the think is that the other computer where I tried the code, has the very same version of all (MiKTeK, GSview, Ghostscript and TeXStudio -including its profile-) and it gives still the same pdf file with the weird text. – David Cano Jan 10 '19 at 4:04
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    @AubreyBlumsohn Well, I'm not sure redefining \color, locally or not, is good practice ... Do a find&replace in pgf-pie.sty, replacing \color with e.g. \pie@color, and it works fine. I'll add a comment on the GitHub issue as well. – Torbjørn T. Jan 10 '19 at 17:22
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The problem seems to come from the \def\color inside the definition of \setcolor, though I can't give any details of what happens.

Anyways, replacing \color with something else, like \pgfpie@color in pgf-pie.sty appears to fix the problem. There are three occurrences, on lines 68, 133, and 235.

I made a pull request on GitHub implementing that, but I don't know if the author is still active, so cannot say whether a fix will make its way to CTAN.

If you don't want to edit the package file, you can do this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf-pie}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\makeatletter
\def\setcolor#1\pgfeov{\def\pgfpie@color{#1}}
\pgfkeyslet{/color/.@cmd}{\setcolor}
\xpatchcmd{\pgfpie@findColor}{\color}{\pgfpie@color}{}{}
\xpatchcmd{\pie}{\color}{\pgfpie@color}{}{}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pie{10/A, 20/B, 30/C, 40/D}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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I am using TexStudio and had the exact same problem, too. It didn't find the package pgf-pie. My idea, after finding your post, was to install the package manually. It worked for me and now I can use the package!

On the website below there is a description how to do it. I followed the exact steps (I have Linux) and it worked like a charm!

Manual installation of the package pgf-pie

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