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Okay, well I have a problem my .tex file has reached the memory limit. Now I tried to change the memory limit /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf however that does not work. It keeps saying pdflatex> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000]. From which I conclude the setting is not readed by the compiler.

A little background info...

I have installed texlive twice... yes twice (at least I think I have). I first installed it using the texlive packages in the UbuntuSoftwareCenter. And recently I tried to install it, because of the I want to make use of the tlmgr command, by the following description, How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?. However I think the installation failed, because I still can not use the tlmgr command.

Back to topic. Now with matlab and matlab2tikz I generated a .tikz plot which is 44.3mb o_O yes I know 44.3mb lol now I still want to have this .tikz plot compiled so all my plots look the same. Now I was thinking of precompiling all the plots single handed and then use the .pdf in my .tex file instead of the .tikz file. Now when I compile this however the .pdf will just be a4paper size and a plot in the middle. I want to know how latex can compile a .pdf with just a 1cm boundary to the plot, like you see in those .tikz examples on texample.net, http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/dandelin-spheres/.

Note: I already tried to only compile the 44.3mb .tikz image single handed and it failed :-(, this does not mean I don't want a answer to the question asked, because it is still usefull for me to know how to generate a .pdf in latex with a paper-size close image, but if anyone has a suggestion on how to compile the 44.3 mb .tikz plot feel free to comment.

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    You can use lualatex instead of pdflatex, which can dynamically increase the available memory. It can basically be used as a drop-in replacement for pdflatex, except for some things like microtype, so maybe it's best to use it only for the image. Why is it 44.3 MB, though? Surely you'd be able to downsample your data before generating the code, it's unlikely that all that information will be useful in your final PDF (plus the PDF will most likely be huge as well). – Jake Jun 06 '12 at 18:00
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    You should also be able to use the standalone package (or preview package) to crop the image with the desired border. – Peter Grill Jun 06 '12 at 18:14
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    @Jake the microtype beta on tlcontrib works fine with lualatex. – Peter Breitfeld Jun 06 '12 at 19:11
  • @PeterBreitfeld: Ah, that's good to know! That's one of the few things that kept me from switching to lualatex (the other was some issue I had with font encoding, but I might have to look into that again, perhaps it was only something I did wrong). – Jake Jun 06 '12 at 19:20
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    What kind of plot is this? Find it hard to believe that you need all those points, as Jake already have pointed out. – blubbafett Jun 06 '12 at 20:28
  • See How can I create a pdf document exactly as big as my tikz picture? – Martin Scharrer Jun 06 '12 at 23:31
  • @dr.drgz and Jake you are both correct I don't need all the points but it is kind of hard job to filter every (xi,yi) coordinate. Anyway it seems matlab2tikz is possible to filter points out. However this led to incomplete graph unfortunatly, not very sure why since all points are very near to each other, 1e-6. I just hacked it a little now and it works.

    Thanks for the info also about "How can I create a pdf document exactly as big as my tikz picture?"

     – WG- Jun 07 '12 at 10:38
  • Are you sure you are editing the right texmf.cnf? What's the output of kpsewhich texmf.cnf? – Martin Schröder Jun 08 '12 at 11:49
  • Please ask only one question in one message. – Martin Schröder Jun 08 '12 at 11:50
  • As it stands, this is not likely to be answered: it's not entirely clear which aspect needs an answer. As such, 'Not A Real Question'. – Joseph Wright Jun 10 '12 at 18:49

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