Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ tikZ | Example produces blank DVI File

[ajs]

Hello,

I am a complete LaTeX n00b, so please bear with my unintentional misuse of terminology and general ignorance. I hope this is the correct area of the forum to be posting this question in. Even though it does not have to do with a specific graphic, figure or table; it concerns TikZ and I figure that people monitoring this section of the forum will know a thing or two about TikZ.

Now that we have the pre-apology out of the way. Here is my issue: I'm trying to "compile" one of the TikZ examples at http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples namely the unit circle ( http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/unit-circle/ ). However, when I download the .tex file containing the source for the unit-circle then run

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ajs@ajs:~/Downloads$ latex unit-circle.tex

I get a .dvi file that is blank. Notably, the .dvi file is "short" as in it looks like it has length:width ratio of 1:5. I'm running Debian Wheezy and have the texlive-full debian package installed. The obtained log file is attached.

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root@ajs:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep texlive-full
texlive-full					install
root@ajs:~# 

I do not know any other useful information that I could provide to assist you. Please let me know if there is something I can provide you with that will help.

Please let me know if anyone has experienced this same issue or if you have any suggestions that I can try.

-ajs

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi ajs,

welcome to the board!

Perhaps try that example without those lines:

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\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\PreviewEnvironment{tikzpicture}
\setlength\PreviewBorder{5pt}

They are just for cutting the output to the TikZ picture area with a small margin.

Stefan