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bacques
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tikZ | Incomprehensible Error

Post by bacques »

Hi all,

I have a really weird problem with tikz.
If I run pdflatex on the following code with my default account everything just looks fine, but if I run pdflatex as an other user things are really messed up.

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\documentclass{minimal}
  \usepackage{tikz}
  \usepackage{color}
  \usetikzlibrary{shapes.symbols}
  \usetikzlibrary{shapes.misc}
  \definecolor{titleColor}{rgb}{0.964705882,0.505882353,0.074509804}
  \definecolor{textColor}{rgb}{0.992156863,0.874509804,0.768627451}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}%
       \node[fill=titleColor,%
 		   shape=signal,%
 		   signal pointer angle=130,%
 		   minimum width=\textwidth,%
		   signal from=west,
		   signal to=nowhere]%
	  at (0mm,0mm)%
 	  {Test1 title};
	  \node[fill=textColor,%
 		  shape=chamfered rectangle,%
 		  chamfered rectangle xsep=6mm,%
 		  chamfered rectangle angle = 25,%
 		  minimum width=\textwidth,%
		  text width = 0.5\textwidth,
		  chamfered rectangle corners=north west]%
	  at (0mm,-20mm)%
 	  {Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore
	   et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco 
	   laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.};%
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{document}
The signal shape points to 'east' instead of 'nowhere' and the chamfered corner of the rectangle is the 'south east' corner instead of the 'north west' corner.

In the log file is following error:

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Missing character: There is no t in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no o in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no n in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no o in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no w in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no h in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no e in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no r in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no e in font nullfont!
Has anyone a guess?
It drives me crazy.
Last edited by localghost on Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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