Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Picture only appears as one Pixel

[gonlatex]

I have a new installation of tikz (apt-get install pgf) on Debian. I have been using Latex for a couple of weeks and wanted to explore tikZ graphics. I have started out with some examples from tutorials. Whenever I run tikZ the pictures either do not appear or appear as a dot. On some cases where there are labels with the picture, the labels will all be bunched up around one spot on the page.

The following code produces the words "We are working on" with a dot roughly one inch to the right of the text.

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\documentclass{article} % say
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
We are working on
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0);
\draw (0,-1.5) -- (0,1.5);
\end{tikzpicture}.
\end{document}

Any help is appreciated. I have been searching the web for solutions to this for several days and have found nothing.

[localghost]

Convert the DVI output further to PS (and perhaps to PDF) and view the resulting output. Alternatively compile directly with PDFLaTeX.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

I would use pdfLaTeX instead of LaTeX in DVI mode, as Thorsten mentioned as option. Click on "Open in writeLaTeX" above your code, to see that it's working.

Stefan

[gonlatex]

Thank you both of you.

This gave me a DVI file that I viewed with Evince or XDVI giving the one pixel picture.

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$ latex tikzEx1.tex

Evidently the information is in the DVI file but Evince and XDVI do not know how to display it.

Both

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$ latex tikzEx1.tex
$ dvipdf tikzEx1.dvi

and

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$ pdflatex tikzEx1.tex

gave PDF files that had good pictures.