Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Assigning absolute position to a tikZ figure

[pooz]

Hi,

I have a TikZ-Picture "externalized" in a file (i.e. "figures/mypic.tikz").

I would like to position this picture in my LaTeX-Document (Beamerclass) to an absolute position/coordinate.
I got several of those files and would like to arrange them on the frame, like I would do with a mouse in Powerpoint ("booohh" ), but just with assiging coordinates, of course!
The Problem is, that each externalized tikz-file has its own "\begin{tikzpicture}" and "\end{tikzpicture}".

How can I do this?

Here is, what I have done:

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			\node at (0,0){\input{"mypic1.tikz"}}; 
			\node at (0,0){\input{"mypic2.tikz"}};  

I use "\node" with the same coordinates to "overlay" this pictures, but they won´t appear at the same position. I guess, the upper left corner is not definded at the same position, even they have the same coordinate. What is wrong here and how can I do this correcty?

Thank you very much for your help!
greetz
pooz

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi pooz,

you could use the textpos package, it's providing commands for absolut positioning on the page.
Another way would be to refer to the current page node like it's been done in the blog post fancy chapter headings.

Stefan

[pooz]

Thank you Stefan!

This worked for me.
For all other readers, in short:

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...
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] 
  \node [xshift=0cm,yshift=0cm] at (current page.south west)
  {
    \input{"analysis_input.tikz"}
  };		 
\end{tikzpicture}
...

But I got one more question:
When using this code above in combination with a standard graphic (via \includegraphics) in a "figure-environment", then I have the problem, that the standard graphic will be positioned on the frame, as if no other picture exists.

For example:
I have 2 pictures (pic1.tikz and pic2.png). I want to have first pic1.tikz and below it pic2.png. But pic2.png will be positioned at the top of the frame, so there is no space any more for pic1.tikz (which I have included via the code above.)

What can I do?

Thank you for your help!
Greetings from Hamburg

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi pooz,

there are many ways, for instance putting the image in a box with some alignment, perhaps with \makebox, or using \vspace, you could even use tikzpicture with the current page node and some shift and use \includegraphics inside the tikzpicture environment.

Stefan