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I have an article with many TikZ pictures. In order to make the code more clear and to save compilation time, I want to remove the TikZ code from the main document. I read that this is possible with the tikzlibrary "external". (for example see this question).

But I am not sure, where to write which commands?

What do I write in the file/the files which consists only of the code for the tikz pictures?

What and where do I write in the main document in order to import the pictures?

tikz-pgf graphics tikz-external

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I have an article with many TikZ pictures. In order to make the code more clear and to save compilation time, I want to remove the TikZ code from the main document. I read that this is possible with the tikzlibrary "external". (for example see this question).

But I am not sure, where to write which commands?

What do I write in the file/the files which consists only of the code for the tikz pictures?

What and where do I write in the main document in order to import the pictures?

tikz-pgf graphics tikz-external

share|improve this question

edited 2 days ago

sheß

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asked 2 days ago

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I have an article with many TikZ pictures. In order to make the code more clear and to save compilation time, I want to remove the TikZ code from the main document. I read that this is possible with the tikzlibrary "external". (for example see this question).

But I am not sure, where to write which commands?

What do I write in the file/the files which consists only of the code for the tikz pictures?

What and where do I write in the main document in order to import the pictures?

tikz-pgf graphics tikz-external

share|improve this question

edited 2 days ago

sheß

2,05011436

asked 2 days ago

klirkklirk

1685

share|improve this question

edited 2 days ago

sheß

2,05011436

asked 2 days ago

klirkklirk

1685

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edited 2 days ago

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asked 2 days ago

klirkklirk

1685

edited 2 days ago

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edited 2 days ago

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asked 2 days ago

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There are two questions hidden in your post, they have two answers that are basically orthogonal:

Speeding up compilation by using tikzexternalize:

You don't actually have to write them into separate files to save compilation time. You can leave your code almost unchanged, that's the beauty of it. This is the simplest possible setup with externalization

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture
enddocument

This will only run if your LaTeX is set up to run with shell escape (see here for example)

Having tidy code, by writing TikZ code into separte files:

Of course you can also store the begintikzpicture...endtikzpicture code in an external .tex or .tikz file and use input to include it. But that is a matter of taste and does not effect compilation performance.

You could write

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
inputtikzfigure1.tikz
enddocument

and
into tikzfigure1.tikz:

begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture

I tend to define my own command to include tikz files, instead of using input in order to take care of one more thing:

newcommandinputtikz[1]%
 tikzsetnextfilename#1%
 input#1.tikz%

This will make sure that the externalization is based on the file name (instead of the order) so that it doesn't get confused if you change the orders of TikZ pictures in your document.

share|improve this answer

edited 2 days ago

answered 2 days ago

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  Thanks, this was really helpful. Something I want to add though: In order to make this work I needed to change two things: Remove spaces from the name of my .tex file, i.e. "file a.tex" to "filea.tex" and to change the command for pdf latex to "pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode --shell-escape %.tex"
  
  – klirk
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  Ok, makes sense. I never have spaces in file names anyways, but I see how this could lead to problems there. I edited a remark about --shell-escape into my answer
  
  – sheß
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

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7

There are two questions hidden in your post, they have two answers that are basically orthogonal:

Speeding up compilation by using tikzexternalize:

You don't actually have to write them into separate files to save compilation time. You can leave your code almost unchanged, that's the beauty of it. This is the simplest possible setup with externalization

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture
enddocument

This will only run if your LaTeX is set up to run with shell escape (see here for example)

Having tidy code, by writing TikZ code into separte files:

Of course you can also store the begintikzpicture...endtikzpicture code in an external .tex or .tikz file and use input to include it. But that is a matter of taste and does not effect compilation performance.

You could write

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
inputtikzfigure1.tikz
enddocument

and
into tikzfigure1.tikz:

begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture

I tend to define my own command to include tikz files, instead of using input in order to take care of one more thing:

newcommandinputtikz[1]%
 tikzsetnextfilename#1%
 input#1.tikz%

This will make sure that the externalization is based on the file name (instead of the order) so that it doesn't get confused if you change the orders of TikZ pictures in your document.

share|improve this answer

edited 2 days ago

answered 2 days ago

sheßsheß

2,05011436

• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Thanks, this was really helpful. Something I want to add though: In order to make this work I needed to change two things: Remove spaces from the name of my .tex file, i.e. "file a.tex" to "filea.tex" and to change the command for pdf latex to "pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode --shell-escape %.tex"
  
  – klirk
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Ok, makes sense. I never have spaces in file names anyways, but I see how this could lead to problems there. I edited a remark about --shell-escape into my answer
  
  – sheß
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

7

There are two questions hidden in your post, they have two answers that are basically orthogonal:

Speeding up compilation by using tikzexternalize:

You don't actually have to write them into separate files to save compilation time. You can leave your code almost unchanged, that's the beauty of it. This is the simplest possible setup with externalization

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture
enddocument

This will only run if your LaTeX is set up to run with shell escape (see here for example)

Having tidy code, by writing TikZ code into separte files:

Of course you can also store the begintikzpicture...endtikzpicture code in an external .tex or .tikz file and use input to include it. But that is a matter of taste and does not effect compilation performance.

You could write

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
inputtikzfigure1.tikz
enddocument

and
into tikzfigure1.tikz:

begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture

I tend to define my own command to include tikz files, instead of using input in order to take care of one more thing:

newcommandinputtikz[1]%
 tikzsetnextfilename#1%
 input#1.tikz%

This will make sure that the externalization is based on the file name (instead of the order) so that it doesn't get confused if you change the orders of TikZ pictures in your document.

share|improve this answer

edited 2 days ago

answered 2 days ago

sheßsheß

2,05011436

• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Thanks, this was really helpful. Something I want to add though: In order to make this work I needed to change two things: Remove spaces from the name of my .tex file, i.e. "file a.tex" to "filea.tex" and to change the command for pdf latex to "pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode --shell-escape %.tex"
  
  – klirk
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Ok, makes sense. I never have spaces in file names anyways, but I see how this could lead to problems there. I edited a remark about --shell-escape into my answer
  
  – sheß
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

There are two questions hidden in your post, they have two answers that are basically orthogonal:

Speeding up compilation by using tikzexternalize:

You don't actually have to write them into separate files to save compilation time. You can leave your code almost unchanged, that's the beauty of it. This is the simplest possible setup with externalization

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture
enddocument

This will only run if your LaTeX is set up to run with shell escape (see here for example)

Having tidy code, by writing TikZ code into separte files:

Of course you can also store the begintikzpicture...endtikzpicture code in an external .tex or .tikz file and use input to include it. But that is a matter of taste and does not effect compilation performance.

You could write

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
inputtikzfigure1.tikz
enddocument

and
into tikzfigure1.tikz:

begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture

I tend to define my own command to include tikz files, instead of using input in order to take care of one more thing:

newcommandinputtikz[1]%
 tikzsetnextfilename#1%
 input#1.tikz%

This will make sure that the externalization is based on the file name (instead of the order) so that it doesn't get confused if you change the orders of TikZ pictures in your document.

share|improve this answer

edited 2 days ago

answered 2 days ago

sheßsheß

2,05011436

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture
enddocument

documentclassarticle
usepackagetikz
usetikzlibraryexternal
tikzexternalize[prefix=figures/]
begindocument
inputtikzfigure1.tikz
enddocument

begintikzpicture 
 node real complex figure;
endtikzpicture

newcommandinputtikz[1]%
 tikzsetnextfilename#1%
 input#1.tikz%

share|improve this answer

edited 2 days ago

answered 2 days ago

sheßsheß

2,05011436

answered 2 days ago

sheßsheß

2,05011436

answered 2 days ago

sheßsheß

2,05011436