[XeTeX] tikz problem still there

[Stefan Solbrig]

Hi,

I think is is more an issue of the preview package.
Quote from the documentation of preview: „This works with DVI  files  
postprocessed by either Dvips and Ghostscript or dvipng, but it also  
works  when you are using PDFTEX for generating PDF files (usually  
also postprocessed  by Ghostscript).“

In addition, when I compile the following snippet with xelatex, I get  
a perfectly fine shading.

%%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \shade [left color=blue, right color=yellow] (0,0) rectangle  
(8,8);
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

If you want a “tight” pdf file, you can use pdfcrop.

best regards,
stefan


> Howdy,
>
> This file containing a tkz shading compiles fine with pdflatex but  
> fails with xelatex:
>
> %%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{tikz}
> \usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}	% Optionally comment out
> \begin{document}
>  \begin{preview}			% Optionally comment out
>    \begin{tikzpicture}
>        \shade [left color=blue, right color=yellow] (0,0) rectangle  
> (8,8);
>    \end{tikzpicture}
>  \end{preview}				% Optionally comment out
> \end{document}
>
> I assume it either has to do with tikz's xetex support, xetex or  
> xdvipdfmx. This is with the xetex version in TeX Live 2014 pretest  
> but also was true, at least, with TeX Live 2013 too.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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