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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

You're reading from   LaTeX Graphics with TikZ A practitioner's guide to drawing 2D and 3D images, diagrams, charts, and plots

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618233
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with TikZ 2. Chapter 2: Creating the First TikZ Images FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Drawing and Positioning Nodes 4. Chapter 4: Drawing Edges and Arrows 5. Chapter 5: Using Styles and Pics 6. Chapter 6: Drawing Trees and Graphs 7. Chapter 7: Filling, Clipping, and Shading 8. Chapter 8: Decorating Paths 9. Chapter 9: Using Layers, Overlays, and Transparency 10. Chapter 10: Calculating with Coordinates and Paths 11. Chapter 11: Transforming Coordinates and Canvas 12. Chapter 12: Drawing Smooth Curves 13. Chapter 13: Plotting in 2D and 3D 14. Chapter 14: Drawing Diagrams 15. Chapter 15: Having Fun with TikZ 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Positioning pictures on the background of a page

A regular TikZ picture appears right where we put it in the document text. We can use a center environment for centering it and a figure environment to have a caption and a reference label and to let it float to a suitable place in the document for better page breaks.

We can even put a TikZ picture anywhere on a page without affecting the document text, placing it in the background. As we already know, we can use the overlay option so that it doesn’t block any space. The remember picture option from the previous section is even more important here: once you set this, TikZ stores picture positioning information in the .aux file. In the next compiler run, that information is read from the .aux file and used for final positioning. That’s the reason why we need to compile a second time to have the final positioning.

We can consider the page like a node with a rectangular shape, having precisely the page dimensions. TikZ...

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