Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Auto-sizing pages or graphics

[smennicke]

Hi,

I'm tikzing my figures for my purposes. My current workflow is to tikz a figure in a separate file and include it into my document via '\input{<..>}'. I wish to tikz the figures and compile them into PDF. Afterwards, I want to use the '\includegraphics{<..>}' command on the PDF file.

Problem is that my tikzpicture have different sizes. Is there any fancy package I can use to automatically increase the size of the figure to the page size or a package that automatically adjusts the page size to that of my figure? I'd prefer the latter.

Thanks,
Stephan.

[localghost]

Use the standalone document class for every single picture. Here's an example from my archives.

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\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{automata,positioning,shapes.geometric}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tikzpicture}[%
    ->,
    shorten >=2pt,
    >=stealth,
    auto,
    node distance=1cm,
    noname/.style={%
      ellipse,
      minimum width=5em,
      minimum height=3em,
      draw
    }
  ]
    \node[noname] (1)                                             {1};
    \node[noname] (2) [below=of 1]                                {2};
    \node[noname] (4) [node distance=1cm and 3mm,below left=of 2] {4};
    \node[noname] (3) [left=of 4]                                 {3};
    \node[noname] (5) [below=of 4]                                {5};
    \node[noname] (6) [node distance=2cm,right=of 5]              {6};

    \path (1) edge                   node       {a} (2)
          (2) edge                   node[swap] {b} (3)
          (2) edge                   node       {c} (4)
          (2) edge                   node       {d} (6)
          (3) edge                   node       {e} (5)
          (4) edge                   node       {f} (5)
          (5) edge [bend right=20pt] node[swap] {g} (2);
  \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

I would prefer to scale the pictures themselves.

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\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=2]
% picture content
\end{tikzpicture}

In opposite to the other method this way the font size is kept.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[smennicke]

Thanks a lot! I was looking for that for like million queries