Tikz HowTo - dev-cuttlefish/cuttlefish GitHub Wiki
To compile cuttlefish output in tikz:
For ubuntu users, the installation using the synaptics package manager is known to give certain errors. To install it manually:
- Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=142562 and download pgf-2.00 (eg to your desktop)
- If there is any, remove older versions of pgf:
sudo rm /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf:
- Install the new version pgf 2.00:
sudo tar xvz -C /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ -f pgf-2.00.tar.gz
- Update tex information:
sudo texhash
- Delete pgf-2.00.tar.gz (no longer used) e.g.
rm ~/Desktop/pgf-2.00.tar.gz
To check your xkeyval version you need to look up
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.styAnd in one of the first non-comment lines you will find something like this:
\ProvidesPackage{xkeyval}
[2006/11/18 v2.5f package option processing (HA)]
something greater that 2.5 in the version should work.
You can download tkz-graph from: http://altermundus.fr/pages/downloads/tkz-graph.sty
Unzip the compressed folder to
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex
and run
sudo texhash
Additionally you can find more details how to install pgf and tkz-graph in:
(pgf manual) http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
(tkz-graph doc, in french) http://altermundus.com/downloads/packages/TKZdoc-graph.pdf
Once everything is installed, a general way to get an Encapsulated Post Script from the code is the following:
latex file.tex
dvips file.dvi
ps2epsi file.ps file.eps
If the eps creation does not work, you can generate a pdf with:
pdflatex file.tex
NOTE: latex articles with \usepackage[dvips]{color} have problems finding the bounding box of pdf files
Extra: How to manually install a latex package? Copy the folder to
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latexand run
sudo texhash