Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ exporting a figure into .ps/.pdf

[etranger]

Hi,

I've been having quite a frustrating problem, I wish to output a graph I have drawn with tikz, and I want the output to be just the size of the graph, instead I keep getting an A4/letter sized output. I thought the \beginpgfgraphicnamed and \endpgfgraphicnamed, were precisely there to delineate exactly what was to be included in the output, preventing the output of an entire page.

Thanks in advance for any help with this problem.

Here is the code I'm executing:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,tikz}
\usepackage{graphics}
\long\def\beginpgfgraphicnamed#1#2\endpgfgraphicnamed{\includegraphics{#1}}
\begin{document}
\pgfrealjobname{7-rotations}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\beginpgfgraphicnamed{7-rotations}
\begin{tikzpicture}
	\node [style={draw,circle}](1) at (-0.5,1) {};
	\node [style={draw,circle}] (2) at (0.5,1) {};
	\node [style={draw,circle}] (3) at (1,0.5) {};
	\node [style={draw,circle}] (4) at (1,-0.5) {};
	\node [style={draw,circle}] (5) at (0.5,-1) {};
	\node [style={draw,circle}] (6) at (-0.5,-1) {};
	\node [style={draw,circle}] (7) at (-1,-0.5) {};
	\node [style={draw,circle}] (8) at (-1,0.5) {};
	\node (9) at (-0.5, 1.5) {};
	\node (10) at (0.5, 1.5) {};
	
	\path[->] (9) edge [above, bend left] (10);
	
	\path[-] (1) edge (2)
								edge (8)
						(2)	edge (3)
						(3) edge (4)
						(4) edge (5)
						(5) edge (6)
						(6) edge (7)
						(7) edge (8);	
					
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{rotations $\times$ 7}
\endpgfgraphicnamed
\end{figure}
\end{document}

[kaiserkarl13]

You probably are getting the right size figure, but it's putting on a letter-sized page (therefore your output is letter paper). If the graphic is literally delineated by the ink (no padding whitespace around it), then you can use ps2epsi to convert the .ps file to a .eps file and then (if you need the PDF) epstopdf to get the PDF. You'll have to specify \pagestyle{empty} to make sure LaTeX doesn't put a page number on the bottom, otherwise you'll get an image that contains your graph plus the page number (way at the bottom of the page).

I do this frequently when I have an EPS file and I want to add overlaid text or symbols on it; just include the EPS/PDF file with \includegraphics and use the picture environment to put the text in place. Then issue latex {}.tex && dvips {}.dvi && ps2epsi {}.ps {}.eps && epstopdf {}.eps and you've got a new EPS/PDF image called {}.eps and {}.pdf with your overlaid text in place.

If there IS padding whitespace, you'll have to mess around with setting an alternate paper size (which is harder to do). You'll still need \pagestyle{empty}, though.