Kdtyjb

For my thesis I have a lot of TikZ plots exported from Matlab using the matlab2tikz library.

I want to use the tikzscale package together with externalization of the plots to save compiling time. Using externalization is recommended in the tikzscale documentation but does not work as expected.

Plots included via includegraphics to make use of the tikzscale are recompiled with every pdflatex run, even if the figure is not changed, this is not the expected behaviour and causes the compiling time to become even longer.

Plots included via input, so not making use of the tikzscale, features are not recompiled, this is what I expect.

Am I doing something wrong during the export with matlab2tikz or with including the .tikz files with includegraphics or is this a bug of the tikzscale package?

I need the additional scaling features of tikzscale, so I cannot simply avoid the tikzscale package.

Setup: WIN7+TexLive2014 / Ubuntu 14.04+TexLive2013, behaviour is the same on both systems

MWE:

documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{amsmath}

usepackage{amsfonts}

usepackage{amssymb}



usepackage{pgfplots}

usepackage{tikzscale} 

usepgfplotslibrary{external} 

tikzexternalize[prefix=tikzTest/] 

newlengthfigureheight 

newlengthfigurewidth



begin{document}

begin{figure}

tikzsetnextfilename{test}

includegraphics[width=0.75textwidth]{tikzTest/test.tikz}

end{figure}



begin{figure}

setlengthfigureheight{0.75textwidth} 

setlengthfigurewidth{0.75textwidth}

tikzsetnextfilename{test2}

input{tikzTest/test2.tikz}

end{figure}

end{document}

Matlab export

x = linspace(0,10,11);

y = x.^2;

figure(1);

plot(x,y);

cleanfigure;

%prepare figure to be included with tikzscale and includegraphics

matlab2tikz('<pathToTexFolder>tikzTestTest.tikz','noSize',true,'extraTikzpictureOptions','trim axis left, trim axis right');

%prepare figure to be included with input

matlab2tikz('<pathToTexFolder>tikzTestTest2.tikz','height','figureheight','width','figurewidth');

test.tikz

% This file was created by matlab2tikz.

% Minimal pgfplots version: 1.3

%

%The latest updates can be retrieved from

%  http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22022-matlab2tikz

%where you can also make suggestions and rate matlab2tikz.

%

begin{tikzpicture}[%

trim axis left, trim axis right

]



begin{axis}[%

separate axis lines,

every outer x axis line/.append style={black},

every x tick label/.append style={font=color{black}},

xmin=0,

xmax=10,

every outer y axis line/.append style={black},

every y tick label/.append style={font=color{black}},

ymin=0,

ymax=100

]

addplot [color=black,solid,forget plot]

  table[row sep=crcr]{%

0   0\

1   1\

2   4\

3   9\

4   16\

5   25\

6   36\

7   49\

8   64\

9   81\

10  100\

};

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}%

test2.tikz

% This file was created by matlab2tikz.

% Minimal pgfplots version: 1.3

%

%The latest updates can be retrieved from

%  http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22022-matlab2tikz

%where you can also make suggestions and rate matlab2tikz.

%

begin{tikzpicture}



begin{axis}[%

width=0.95092figurewidth,

height=figureheight,

at={(0figurewidth,0figureheight)},

scale only axis,

separate axis lines,

every outer x axis line/.append style={black},

every x tick label/.append style={font=color{black}},

xmin=0,

xmax=10,

every outer y axis line/.append style={black},

every y tick label/.append style={font=color{black}},

ymin=0,

ymax=100

]

addplot [color=black,solid,forget plot]

table[row sep=crcr]{%

0   0\

1   1\

2   4\

3   9\

4   16\

5   25\

6   36\

7   49\

8   64\

9   81\

10  100\

};

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}%

Edit: I just realized this question was asked 2 years ago...

Have you tried using LuaLaTeX with tikzexternalcheckshellescape? It worked for me before.

Try with the above preamble:

documentclass[11pt]{article}

usepackage{pgfplots}

usepgfplotslibrary{external}

tikzsetexternalprefix{figurescache/} %folder for temp figures

tikzset{external/system call={lualatex tikzexternalcheckshellescape -shell-escape -synctex=1 -halt-on-error -jobname "image" "texsource"}}

begin{document}

[Tikz stuff in here]

end{document}

And then to compile your document, type:

lualatex filename.tex

After this, a filename filename.makefile will be created and type

make -f filename.makefile

then another

lualatex filename.tex