[Tikzdevice-bugs] Background color for tikzDevice

[Yihui Xie]

OK, thanks a lot! I came up with a similar idea yesterday; finally I
used a black rectangle as the background of the plot.

Regards,
Yihui
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Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
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On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Cameron Bracken
<cameron.bracken at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yihui-
>
> We certainly intended it to but It does not right now. The bg and fg
> arguments are are available but don't do anything.  We will have to
> think a little about how to implement these correctly since they are
> not very well defined.  For your particular example you can change the
> line near the top from
>
> \draw[color=white,opacity=0] (0,0) rectangle (505.89,505.89);
>
> to
>
> \filldraw[black] (0,0) rectangle (505.89,505.89);
>
> Sorry that is a pain.  It should not be too hard to implement and we
> can probably get it into the next release.
>
> -Cameron
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Charlie and Cameron,
>>
>> Just a short question: does the tikz device support background color?
>> For instance:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage[nogin]{Sweave}
>> \usepackage{tikz}
>> \begin{document}
>> \SweaveOpts{cache=TRUE}
>> <<bg-fig,fig=TRUE,width=5,height=5>>=
>> xx = runif(100)
>> yy = runif(100)
>> par(bg = "black", mar = rep(0, 4), pch = 20)
>> plot(xx, yy, col='yellow')
>> @
>> \end{document}
>>
>> There is no black background in the PDF output of the above code...
>>
>> Thanks for the terrific tikzDevice and pgfSweave!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name
>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>> 3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
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