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I know I am greedy...

I have tried for quite a while to get TikZ's externalization facilities to work nicely with mylatex, without any luck.

My document currently looks like

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize{filename}
\begin{document}
Some text.
\end{document}

I first compile it with 

pdfetex -shell-escape --output-format pdf --jobname=filename-pdf --ini \&latex mylatex.ltx filename.tex

which builds a filename-pdf.fmt format file, which I then use

latex -shell-escape --output-format pdf &filename-pdf filename.tex

If I remove the two lines referring to externalization, this scheme works. With them, no output is generated. (If instead of \tikzexternalize{filename} I say \tikzexternalize the second run uses filename-pdf as jobname for the pdflatex runs used to compile externalized images, which does not work...)

Any ideas?

diabonas
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Mariano Suárez-Álvarez
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1 Answers1

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The problem here are the different jobnames of the format file and the main document. To resolve this, simply name your format file filename.fmt instead of filename-pdf.fmt and all will be fine:

filename.tex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize{filename}
\begin{document}
Some text.
\end{document}

Compile the format file with

pdfetex -shell-escape --output-format pdf --jobname=filename --ini \&latex mylatex.ltx filename.tex

This creates filename.fmt. Afterwards, run the compilation of your document with

latex -shell-escape --output-format pdf &filename filename.tex
diabonas
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