[Tikzdevice-bugs] clash when package transparent

[Boris Veytsman]

MS> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:48:23 +0200
MS> From: Matthieu Stigler <matthieu.stigler at gmail.com>


MS> Basically, when the user does not specify explicitely which color should 
MS> be used in ggplots bars (the color for outer lines of bars, not for 
MS> inner fill), ggplot will not put any. tikz seems to be doing the same. 
MS> However, things change when the package transparency is loaded: outer 
MS> lines are now visible!

Well, tikz uses its own transparency code (see examples in
http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/feature/transparency/), and it
seems to conflict with the one in transparent package.

The documentation of transparent package says `Because of the poor
interface for page resources, there can be problems with
packages that also use \pdfpageresources.'.   Pgf is one of such
packages:  systemlayer/pgfsys-pdftex.def says:
\expandafter\global\expandafter\pdfpageresources\expandafter{\temp} 

I'd suggest using tikz transparency code for tikz pictures...

-- 
Good luck

-Boris

You never learn anything by doing it right.