Blank input from Overleaf standalone

Question

The following MWE gives me three pages of output in Overleaf.

Project semilog6655:

\documentclass[multi=false,pstricks=true]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\include{TECcolors}
\usepackage{pst-plot}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(-5.4,-5)(5.4,5.4)
  \psgrid[
           gridcolor=TECaubergine,
           subgridcolor=TECaubergine,
           gridlabels=0
         ](-5,-5)(5,5)
  \psaxes[
          linecolor=TECsennepsgul,
          linewidth=2pt,
          Dy=1,
          ylogBase=10,
          Oy=0
         ]
    {->}(0,0)(-5.4,-5)(5.4,5.4)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

The two first pages are unintentionally blank while the third page shows the desired graphics.

Correspondingly, I get a blank box (or am I expressing , when I import the file into some other project:

\includegraphics[width=5cm]{semilog6655.pdf}

The same output, I get from the following command:

\includegraphics[width=5cm]{semilog6655}

I use % sign routinely to signal extension of a command across lines. Would that be considered bad style? — Morten Engelsmann, Dec 18 '17 at 22:33
You can separate key-value pairs across lines without %. Using many unnecessary % is not a good style. — Display Name, Dec 18 '17 at 23:08
@Engelsmann: it is not a bad style using the %. They are superflous in this case, but not in other cases! — , Dec 19 '17 at 07:52

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '17 at 11:13

Use

\input{TECcolors}

and not

\include{TECcolors}

See When should I use \input vs. \include? for the differences.

Using \include there actually gives an error

! Undefined control sequence.
\set@color ->\special {color push \current@color 
                                                 }\aftergroup \reset@color 
l.8 \include{TECcolors}

?

which Overleaf for some reason doesn't report.

Regarding the last part, if you include a multi-page PDF with \includegraphics, you get the first page by default I think. You can change which page to include, e.g.

\includegraphics[width=5cm,page=3]{semilog6655}

to get the third page. (If you don't specify the extension, LaTeX has a list of extensions it tries, I don't know the order, but PDF is certainly among them.)

Blank input from Overleaf standalone

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