Crop page completely

Question

I display some nearly full page tikz(square BB's) and would like to crop the page to the image in the pdf because there is a lot of wasted space that reduces ability to show the image in higher detail.

I've only seen how to crop importing images/pdf's but nothing "inline" or it seems to do it to the entire document(I only want to do the page that the image is on).

I have a figure using p and would simply like to crop/fit the page dimensions to it(= a small margin of a few mm or so) and I do not want to have to hard code the crop dimensions or positions.

Answer 1

There are two ways i found of achieving something "related" to this question. To export the image from the document to a full scale pdf (which could then be included in the pdf, yes, those will be 3 steps, but, thats a result) First is the use of preview:

% A calendar of circles
% Author: Till Tantau (The PGF manual),
%   and Stefan Kottwitz (Modifications such as shaded circles and color)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calendar,shadings}
\renewcommand*{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\colorlet{winter}{blue}
\colorlet{spring}{green!60!black}
\colorlet{summer}{orange}
\colorlet{fall}{red}

\usepackage[active, tightpage]{preview}
\setlength\PreviewBorder{10pt}%

% A counter, since TikZ is not clever enough (yet) to handle
% arbitrary angle systems.
\newcount\mycount
\begin{document}
    \begin{preview}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[transform shape,
    every day/.style={anchor=mid,font=\tiny}]
    \node[circle,shading=radial,outer color=blue!30,inner color=white,
    minimum width=15cm] {\textcolor{blue!80!black}{\Huge\the\year}};
    \foreach \month/\monthcolor in
    {1/winter,2/winter,3/spring,4/spring,5/spring,6/summer,
        7/summer,8/summer,9/fall,10/fall,11/fall,12/winter} {
        % Computer angle:
        \mycount=\month
        \advance\mycount by -1
        \multiply\mycount by 30
        \advance\mycount by -90
        \shadedraw[shading=radial,outer color=\monthcolor!30,middle color=white,
        inner color=white,draw=none] (\the\mycount:5.4cm) circle(1.4cm);
        % The actual calendar
        \calendar at (\the\mycount:5.4cm) [
        dates=\the\year-\month-01 to \the\year-\month-last]
        if (day of month=1) {\large\color{\monthcolor!50!black}\tikzmonthcode}
        if (Sunday) [red]
        if (all) {
            % Again, compute angle
            \mycount=1
            \advance\mycount by -\pgfcalendarcurrentday
            \multiply\mycount by 11
            \advance\mycount by 90
            \pgftransformshift{\pgfpointpolar{\mycount}{1.2cm}}};}
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{preview}
\end{document}

Used this blogpost: https://texblog.org/2012/09/12/cropping-the-output-file-to-its-content-in-latex/ And this texample: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/calendar-circles/

The package used is the preview package.

The second is to externalize the tikz pictures. Found here Script to automate externalizing TikZ graphics <- selected answer

Both work great i think. There are possibly easy ways to create macros for the first run: create the external PDFs, and a second run, adding the PDFs to the resulting PDF instead of generating the tikzpictures on the fly.

Answer 2

incgraph package could be an option. It defines commands and environments to include external or internal graphics on full paper size. It means that graphics are presented on an independent page which defined size or just resized to the graphic's dimensions. An example:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{incgraph}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-6]

\begin{inctext}[paper=graphics,label={inctext1},bookmark={A huge ABC}]
\Huge Some important text.
\end{inctext}

\begin{inctext}[paper=graphics,landscape,label={inctext2},bookmark={Graph}]
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=10]
\path[fill=yellow,draw=yellow!75!red] (0,0) circle (1cm);
\fill[red] (45:5mm) circle (1mm);
\fill[red] (135:5mm) circle (1mm);
\draw[line width=1mm,red] (215:5mm) arc (215:325:5mm);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{inctext}

\lipsum[7-10]

\end{document}