Exporting TikZ figures to .EPS

Question

i'm trying to export a TikZ picture to .eps using the following on Win7 (MikTeX), compiling with pdflatex:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzset{external/system call={pdflatex \tikzexternalcheckshellescape -halt-on-error 
-interaction=batchmode -jobname "\image" "\texsource" &&
pdftops -eps "\image".pdf}}
\tikzexternalize[shell escape=-enable-write18]

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) circle (1cm);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}}

For some reason, this does not yield any .eps file (the figure will only be exported as .pdf) - can somebody help me with this?

You can compile your code without that settings using latex and then convert the dvi to eps. — Sigur, May 11 '13 at 16:21
Does it work manually? Here your example correctly calls pdftops -eps image.pdf. Do you get any error message? — Alexander, May 11 '13 at 16:27
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Note that TeX does not receive exit codes - if pdftops fails for some reason, it will assume that all is well and you do not get feedback. The external lib only checks if a "suitable" result file exists (I am unaware of options to receive the exit code, by the way) — Christian Feuersänger, May 11 '13 at 18:24
For single diagrams you could also use the standalone class instead. — Martin Scharrer, Jun 23 '13 at 12:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 26 '20 at 14:27

Before \begin{document}, add \pgfrealjobname{file_name}

Before \begin{tikzpicture}, add \beginpgfgraphicnamed{file_name} and after \end{tikzpicture}, add \endpgfgraphicnamed

In the folder containing the file: hold the Shift key and right click > Open command window here

In the newly opened PowerShell window, type:

latex --jobname=file_name-f1 nfile_name.tex
dvips file_name-f1.dvi
ps2eps file_name-f1.ps

Exporting TikZ figures to .EPS

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