Questions tagged [bounding-box]
{bounding-box} is for questions about the bounding box of elements in a document, usually {graphics}, {tikz-pgf} or {pstricks} pictures, or glyphs in {fonts}. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what bounding-box is the question about.
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Why do lines drawn in TikZ add space equal to their width into the picture and how can this be prevented?
Related: Horizontal space before TikZ picture
Consider the following MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tikzpicture}
\...
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I am getting an Error " cannot determine size of graphic ( no boundingBox) Overleaf [duplicate]
I am getting an Error " cannot determine size of graphic ( no boundingBox)
\documentclass{proposalnsf}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{graphicx}
%\usepackage[dvipdfmx]{graphicx}
%\usepackage[...
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TikZ grid out of sync with page boundaries
The following code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[paperheight=297mm,paperwidth=210mm,margin=0mm,showframe]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember ...
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Make TikZ overlay part of a formula bounding box
I have a formula, annotated using a TikZ picture overlay:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{tikzmark,calc,fit,shapes.geometric}
\begin{...
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How to get bounding boxes for jpg/png in latex
Currently i include png/jpg files with graphicx package
compiling with lualatex, no problem, in particular no error message because of bounding box not found.
This question is about historic ways to ...
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Minimizing Extra Spaces in Exam Headers and possible improvements
I am an educator in mathematics and prefer using LaTeX for typesetting documents. However, the dean of our faculty provided us with a Word version for creating exam headers. I tried to convert it to ...
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TikZ standalone fails to generate PDF with tight layout when using loops
Something quite strange happens when I try to add loops in my code (they are actually not really loops, but edges from one node to itself, controlled by in and out arguments.
The following is the code ...
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Compatibility of custom definition with decorations and removing control points space from bounding box
I'm merging solutions from two different questions, and encountering issues with their compatibility:
The first is from Tikz: Arrowheads in the center, allowing decorations on arrows to have an ...
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How to insert two syntax trees with brackets in a line with tikz-qtree?
I have been reading Heim & Kratzer 1998, and I find that the pattern of compositional analysis interesting. The tree drawing is difficult, for it need to insert two trees in a line and each tree ...
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Why are math italic 𝑊 and 𝑌 so much to the right in TeX Gyre Termes Math?
Continuing http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/662018, feeding
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{texgyretermes-math.otf}
\begin{document}
\[
\begin{array}{|@...
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Misalignment of bounding boxes with `psfrag`
My problem
The left side of the replacement text written by psfrag is horizontally shifted with respect to that of the tag I inserted in my PostScript file, although I use "l" (left) for ...
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Place node under bounding box of subfigures
I want to draw a figure that consists of two subfigures.
How can I place the labels (e.g. (a) and (b)) using bounding boxes?
Here is my code so far, but I am not getting anywhere.
\documentclass[tikz]{...
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Is there a way to prevent \mathchoice from resetting the bounds of its contents (with respect to superscript/subscript placement)?
I have a series of norm macros that I want to expand to \left\| ...\right\| in display math but remain as \| ... \| in inline math. Each norm has a subscript unique to the macro:
\newcommand {\...
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Why is the 7 (Computer Modern italic) jumping out of the baseline in this code?
I have an issue I cannot explain to myself. Here is the code:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\newcommand{\tikzmark}[4][]{\begin{tikzpicture}\node[inner sep=1pt,outer sep=...
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Node anchor too far away from node text
I'm using a loop to write several labels for line intersections, but perhaps for reasons of scale or something the labels are a bit too far away from the intersections. I can't fix each manually since ...
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Approximate bounding box for chemfig figure
If I wanted LaTeX to automatically make an approximate bounding box for, say, the following figure, could I use some built-in feature of the chemfig package? Or would I need to code this up in plain ...
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Clipped scope's bounding box
In the following example, I \clip out a 3x3 rectangle of an image. I'd expect the resulting scope to have a bounding box of 3x3, so the two text nodes should line up with the extent of the clipped ...
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Overleaf No Bounding Box Error
I am using Overleaf V2 and just received the following error message:
This topic has been dealt with here: No BoundingBox error message
But I am new to this and don't understand how to check the eps ...
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'Dimension too large' when `useasboundingbox` with `fill between`
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{fillbetween}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\begin{filecontents*}{data.txt}
X Y CI95
1 1.50 0.39
2 1....
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How do bounding boxes work?
I want to include a histogram into the first and second node with a bounding box and only text for the rest node.
Here's my work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{...
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How to measure the width of a character including overshoot
I'm trying to measure the width of arbitrary letters. For example, I'm using this to get the width of a letter A:
\settowidth{\letterwidth}{A}
This seems to work fine for all my letters, except for ...
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Bounding a picture inside a shape on a node
I have a tikzpicture tiled inside of a tikzpicture with the shape of a starburst as a central, repeating node. I want to fill the starburst with a picture. Normally, for a question here, I'd take ...
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Using chronosys package in standalone class
I want to include a timeline in a beamer presentation. To that end I wrote this code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chronosys}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{first-period}{HTML}{b3e2cd}
\...
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Can I change the bounding box of the digit 1?
This is a follow-up to Is this horizontal alignment correct?. In short, I would to print the text 100 µm visually centered on a scale bar. The problem with this is the digit 1 has the same wide ...
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How can I get the bounding box of a specific group of objects in TikZ?
Considering TikZ code:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw <a square>;
\draw <an elephant>;
\draw <a toaster>;
\end{tikzpicture}
I'd like to access the ...
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Moving tikz node scales coordinates in scope
I was looking for a way to overlay an image with an grid. I found this answer, which allows me to get an evenly sized grid over an arbitrary sized image (see first figure attached). Very nice!
However,...
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How do I put a rectangular box around a figure?
i need to put a bounding box around a cropped image of which I don't know the dimension in cm how can I do it ?
This is the code I'm using and the image.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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How to position legend at corner of tikxpicture bounding box?
I've created a block diagram and want to add a legend to it which should be positioned in the very top left corner.
I've setup a custom environment for the legend according to the answer to this ...
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Tikz cuts off top of text in tikzpicture
I am drawing an arrow with text above it
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[<-, thick, postaction={decorate, decoration={...
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Make box in alignment mode
I have written this equation in alignment mode. But now I want to box this whole expression. What command should I use? Any Idea?
\begin{align*}
I=&\frac{1}{|\mathrm{det \, \textbf{A}}|} \sum_{m_{...
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How do I use two colours in a bounding box?
I had what I thought was a simple task, which is to create two different coloured background rectangles. The purpose is to distinguish one set of concepts from another.
I haven't found an answer that ...
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tikzpicture padding
I don't get where the mysterious white space around this mwe-tikzpicture comes from:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
...
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Inserting figures into Anki (LaTeX cards) causes no BoundingBox error
I'm using latex to format my Anki cards and ran into an error:
"! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in"
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{supplementary.PNG}\\\relax {{c1::Supplementary ...
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Why is the bounding box not updated when using arrows.meta arrowheads in inline tikz?
I am using inline tikz calls to create annotations in my documents.
I am using the (below defined) \Curve macro to annotate graph plots (e.g. created with pgfplots) and \Curvee macro for more ...
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Make bounding box of 3D figure tighter
I am trying to plot 3 figures using pgfplots next to one-another. To do so, I have created 3 minipages with a with of 0.3\textwidth, so that there is a bit of room between them.
In each minipage I ...
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How to properly use savebox with tikz externalize?
I am unable to properly capture dimensions with savebox while tikzexternalize is on.
Here is the MWE:
\documentclass {article}
\RequirePackage {tikz}
\RequirePackage {expl3}
\usetikzlibrary {...
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TikZ: Create bounding box in tikz picture of control system diagram
I have completed writing a control system in TikZ. I now want to create two coloured "boxes" with dashed lines which should entail my controller and plant components of the entire control loop. Please ...
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Irregular bounding box for text in LaTeX
Bounding box example
Can you tell me the package to use to make the irregular shape for bounding the text, as in the example just above ?
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How do I find the bounding box that surrounds various Tex elements
Given a tex file like this :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
I'm unable to figure out a way to log the bounding box co-ordinates (x, y, width,...
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How to position `local bounding box` (scope containing a series of paths) below a node's `south` anchor?
It's easy to position a node below a local bounding box (behavior is standard) but not the other way. I assume it's because the scope doesn't "know" about nodes outside of it. I tried to use ...
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How can I draw a rectangle around venn Diagrams?
I have tried some of the solutions to similar questions, but none of them included minipages, which seems to be the problem (I`m fairly new to LaTeX)
So, here's the coding:
% Definition of circles
\...
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Pgfplots Interrupt Bounding Box by applying a style to a node
I would like to be able to use
\addplot ... node {<node text>};
and have the node not affect the bounding box. That is, the bounding box should be what it would be with just:
\addplot ... ;
...
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Change bounding box of math glyphs in LuaTeX
I'm trying to use the Garamond-Math font in LuaTeX (despite the documentation saying I should use it with XeTeX only :-). It's working more or less OK with LuaTeX, except for some unfortunate glyph ...
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Force includegraphics to obey bounding box of eps
I have an test.eps that consists of
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 343 491
%%EOF
and a tex document
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newbox\figbox
\begin{document}
\setbox\figbox\hbox{\...
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Creating a Tikz-Picture with respect to paper width
Till now I just create a desired picture for example with QTikz or Tikz-EDT and pass the code afterwards to my document. To fit the picture to the width of the paper I use \resizebox.
However, if the ...
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Tikz Figure with Adjusted Bounding Box Does Not have Correct Spacing
The \DrawBoundingBox macro draws bounding box around a figure with a 1pt border.
In the first figure, produced with \MyNode\MyNode, no tweaks are done to tikz's bounding box. Due to the control points ...
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Bounding boxes for each column of a 2-column algorithm & align them flush with page margins
I have two sub-algorithms for side-by-side placement using the algpseudocode layout from the algorithmicx package. Since each sub-algorithm needs to be individually referred in text, I chose the ...
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Why does rotating a circle alter its bounding box?
Why does rotating a tikzpicture with a circle alter the height and width of the bounding box, and is there a way to not have this effect?
The MWE below yields:
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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mdframed with raised extra content runs into the header of an scrbook document
I'm using a variant of Example 5 – complex example with TikZ from the mdframed manual in a scrbook document. The goal is to include easily distinguishable boxes that contain exercises, definitions, ...
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Align tikzpictures at internal bounding box with text below it
I want to align the bottom of the red bounding boxes, but can't seem to find the right combination of baseline and anchor options to get this to work.
The failing test case of the MWE below is the ...
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