[Tikzdevice-bugs] tikzDevice bug confirmed

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

Hi Frank,
I have been able to reproduce the DVI issue on a virtual machine running
Kubuntu- all the text seems smashed to one point and the actual graph is
shifted off of the page. This issue also shows up in MaxDvix but strangely
the yap previewer on windows is rendering just fine. Hopefully there's a
switch we can throw somewhere that will sort this out.

As for defining a macro to reduce the size of the text file- the problem is
that the actual drawing of the circles is handled by the circle graphics
primitive. At that level it's hard to tell that "this circle is one of 200
plotting points that are all exactly the same, use this shortcut" or "this
circle is unique- we need to print out a fully styled command".

One option that I have been pondering is overhauling the styling system it's
self. The styles are all the commands that appear between the [ ] in TikZ
commands. Currently these make up ~80% of the command and there may be a way
of caching and reusing them.

Anyway, thanks for the bug report- we'll let you know if we figure out a
solution!

-Charlie
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