I know that there are several options to scale a whole tikz picture (e.g., \resizebox
). However, I want to scale only some parts within a single tikz picture.
In my case I want to create some slides for a conference where one slide should be composed of different single (complex) tikz pictures that already exist. Furthermore, I want to have them partly overlapped. I already found \begin{scope}[scale=.2] ... \end{scope}
. However, that does not work.
Here is MWE that should visualise what I mean:
\documentclass[border=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,positioning,shapes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[auto,
node distance=.5cm,
rect/.style={rectangle, draw, thick, inner sep=5pt, minimum width=20mm, minimum height=10mm, align=center, fill=white},
ellips/.style={circle, draw, thick, inner sep=0pt, minimum size=22mm, align=center, fill=white}]
\node[rect] (A) at (-1, 0) {Stuff A};
\node[rect] (B) [right= of A] {Stuff B};
\node[rect] (C) [right= of B] {Stuff C};
\node[ellips] (D) at (0,0) {As a whole};
\node[ellips] (E) [below= of D] {we should \\ be scalable};
\draw [draw, thick] (D.270) [] to node {} (E.90);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
In my real case the combination of D
and E
is a rather complex tikz picture that I'd like to make smaller and to print 'above'/'between' A
and B
.
Best Answer
I'm not entirely sure this will fit your needs, but you can try nesting with scaling both on the
tikzpicture
as a whole and on the nodes within (cf. How to scale a tikzpicture including texts?):Producing (after fiddling with positioning):