Is there a definite place where TikZ manual can be found online?
I am only finding version 2.00, while I keep loosing the link to 2.10.
Does the official site host the manual somewhere, or is it only available in the zip? Any help appreciated.
asked Mar 27, 2012 at 20:26
6 Answers
The latest officialy released manual would be at the PGF site of the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN) or directly at https://pgf-tikz.github.io/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
If you need the absolute most recent version or previous versions of the manual (even unstable builds of PGF/TikZ), then you can look at the list of releases in the GitHub source repository (the PDFs are under the ▶ Assets collapsible item).
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For the most current manual, this is the best answer. The version there is more recent than all the other answers (by 3 weeks as I post this comment), and it's a direct link to a PDF (not buried in an archive.) Mar 26, 2014 at 14:54
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Changing the accepted answer to this. Since the stable version is outdated (at this time) ctan.org/pkg/pgf this is better. Apr 27, 2015 at 13:25
The place to look for the PGF offical released manual would be the CTAN directory: ctan.org/pkg/pgf.
answered Mar 27, 2012 at 20:36
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2As of today, the CTAN link is pointing to the 2.10 of the manual, while version 3.0.0 of the manual is available on sourceforge. Jan 14, 2014 at 1:59
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CTAN does not hold the latest version, sourceforge does, the manual is zipped as far as I can tell, inside the doc directory: sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/files/pgf/version%203.0.0– PatrickTFeb 4, 2014 at 21:52
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1@PatrickT: Yes, the link in this answer is for the "official released" manual. Mar 26, 2014 at 16:30
You could also use the web site that Stefan Kottwitz and Paulo Cereda recently put together. Just enter
http://texdoc.net/pkg/<packagename>
into your browser's address field and you'll automatically be taken to the right place. So in your case, go to http://texdoc.net/pkg/tikz or http://texdoc.net/pkg/pgf, they both lead to the manual, version 2.10.
Joseph Wright wrote about this service on our blog: TeX documentation online: texdoc.net
answered Mar 27, 2012 at 20:46
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texdoc pgfon the command line will open your locally installed PGF manual, too.– krlmlrMar 27, 2012 at 20:55 -
@drozzy Well, it's just a week or two since texdoc.net was launched. Mar 27, 2012 at 21:45
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@user946850 FWIT = For What It's Worth. Was that so hard? Also, I'm getting "No viewer associated with this file type" error in windows... :-( Mar 28, 2012 at 1:58
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If you want a CVS version of pgf tikz, I put on my site altermundus the complete archive with the documentation and the changelog (it's the version of 24/01:2012) I will put the last one in a few days.
answered Mar 27, 2012 at 22:25
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That is pretty cool! However, I use Miketex - which gets this stuff for me automagically; also I don't want to have different versions running on different machines. Mar 28, 2012 at 1:57
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You can look only at the new pgfmanual to see what will be the future ! Mar 28, 2012 at 5:09
The source for this package is on Github (Aug 16, 2019). The manual is created as part of the continuous integration process and uploaded to: https://pgf-tikz.github.io/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
As of 2019, the documentation (manual) version 3.1.1 can be found in pdf form at: CTAN-math-washington-edu: TikZ & PGF. It's north of 1200 pages, so I suppose this is the complete manual.
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2Generic url: ctan.org/pkg/pgf (mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/pgfmanual.pdf) Feb 23, 2019 at 1:56
texdoc pgfortexdoc tikzon the command line (assuming you have access to a terminal shell).