[Tikzdevice-bugs] clash when package transparent

[Matthieu Stigler]

Le 08/09/2011 01:30, Charlie Sharpsteen a écrit :
> On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 10:22:06 AM UTC-7, Boris Veytsman wrote:
>
>     MS> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:48:23 +0200
>     MS> From: Matthieu Stigler <matthieu... 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/
>     <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
>
> I second that, TikZ has it's own built-in color handling code and 
> trying to go around it can be very troublesome. After looking over the 
> documentation of the transparent package, I don't see any 
> functionality that is not provided by TikZs color system.
>
> -Charlie
Thanks for your answers!

Well the issue is when on e is using a R ->  tikz picture in a latex 
class that is using transparent by default! The package transparent is 
loaded for other purpose than the tikz code, but yet interacts with 
it.... I guess there is no way to prevent this other than removing the 
transparent package?

Thanks!!

Mat