Page Layout ⇒ Problems with the package "tcolorbox"

[Cephal]

Hello everybody!

I have a Windows 7 Pc and I use Texniccenter with Miktex 2.9.
I would like to use the package tcolorbox. I am a beginner in Latex and I have launched the example available on CTAN which is named: tcolorbox-example.tex but I don't have a good result as you can see in te attached picture. The code is:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,mathrsfs}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\begin{document}
\begin{tcolorbox}
This is another \textbf{tcolorbox}. \tcblower Here, you see the lower part of the box.
\end{tcolorbox}
\end{document}

Picture of the problem

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Thanks for your answers, Cephal.

[Cephal]

I have the same problem with this simple code:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,lipsum}
\usepackage[listings,theorems,skins,breakable]{tcolorbox}

\begin{document}

\begin{tcolorbox}
This is a \textbf{tcolorbox}.
\end{tcolorbox}

\end{document}

[Cephal]

I don't understand because I have this problem only when I make the compilation latex==>DVI. When I make the compilation latex==>PS or PDF, there is no problem. Do you know why?

[cgnieder]

Hi Cephal,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

I have this problem only when I make the compilation latex==>DVI.

I don't know the internals of TikZ (which is used by tcolorbox) well enough to give you the details but you shouldn't rely on DVI output to look like you expect when using TikZ. The DVI file is correct which you will see if you convert the DVI file to PS (with dvips) and look at the PS file. Said PS file converted to PDF (with ps2pdf) also gives the correct PDF file. However, nowadays producing a PDF directly either using pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX is the recommend and usual way to produce a document, anyway.

Regards