Technical requirements

You need to have a LaTeX distribution installed on your computer, for example, TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive), MacTeX (https://tug.org/mactex), or MiKTeX (https://miktex.org). A full installation is recommended. It may take up to 8 GB of space on your hard disk, but you don’t need to worry about missing packages.

Alternatively, you can use Overleaf (https://overleaf.com). It’s an excellent online LaTeX editor and compiler; that’s why it requires a permanent internet connection to be able to use it.

All code examples of this chapter are available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/LaTeX-graphics-with-TikZ/tree/main/01-Getting-Started-with-TikZ.

At https://tikz.org, you can also find all code examples from this book. You can edit and compile to PDF directly on that website, so you can even use a smartphone or tablet to work with this book’s code.