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?
Best Answer
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 offilename-pdf.fmt
and all will be fine:filename.tex
Compile the format file with
This creates
filename.fmt
. Afterwards, run the compilation of your document with