Conflict between TikZ with decorations.text library, caption and booktabs packages and progressbar theme

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No room for a new \dimen

I obtain an error when using simultaneously the above 4 elements. When removing one of them (which I do not wish), the output is fine.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}                 % 1
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text} % 1
\usepackage{caption}              % 2
\usepackage{booktabs}             % 3
\usetheme{progressbar}            % 4

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}

\end{frame}
\end{document}

The progressbar theme comes from Sylvain Bouveret's webpage.

The error message output by pdfLaTeX is the following (LaTeX does not return any error):

*geometry* detected driver: pdftex
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii
[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
! No room for a new \dimen .
\ch@ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3}
                                              \fi 
l.1253 \newdimen\MPscratchDim
                          % will be assigned global
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It works if XeLaTeX or TeX->PS->PDF route is used with warnings about fadings of TikZ. So one of them is eating up the dimen registers in the PDF driver. — percusse, Feb 01 '13 at 12:10
Welcome to TeX.sx! This seems to be a case already dealt with in No room for a new \dimen. If this solves your issue, please tell us, so that this question can be closed; otherwise, tell why the suggested workaround does not apply. — egreg, Feb 01 '13 at 12:20
Just after \documentclass{beamer}, add \usepackage{etex}. — Paul Gaborit, Feb 01 '13 at 12:36
Loading the etex package solves the issue, indeed. Thank you all. I am surprised that this minimal example saturates Pdftex. — Jef, Feb 01 '13 at 12:51

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 01 '13 at 12:43

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To use the extended pool for \dimen, you need to use the etex package:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{etex}
\usepackage{tikz}                 % 1
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text} % 1
\usepackage{caption}              % 2
\usepackage{booktabs}             % 3
\usetheme{progressbar}            % 4

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}

\end{frame}
\end{document}

answered Feb 01 '13 at 12:43

Paul Gaborit

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Your answer solved a slightly different problem. Thanks anyway. – Dohn Joe May 07 '14 at 20:02

Conflict between TikZ with decorations.text library, caption and booktabs packages and progressbar theme

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