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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Different colors in LaTeX and ConTeXt
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:29:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1b9dbb52-06c7-043c-9855-f13179f49a9f@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5784DA25.4000206@gmail.com>

On 7/12/2016 1:53 PM, Henri Menke wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I wanted to draw some nice pictures using TikZ and pgfplots, but then I
> noticed that the colors of the ticks in my pgfplots graph were unusually
> bright and it looked very weird.   So I set up a test
>
>> \usemodule[tikz]
>> \starttext
>> \starttikzpicture
>>   \draw[help lines,very thick] (0,0) -- (1,0);
>> \stoptikzpicture
>>
>> \externalfigure[test-crop]
>> \stoptext
>
> where I produced test-crop.pdf from the following plain TeX sample,
> which I also typeset with LuaTeX 0.95 (to make sure it's not a LuaTeX
> regression).
>
>> \input luatex85.sty
>> \input tikz
>> \tikzpicture
>>   \draw[help lines,very thick] (0,0) -- (1,0);
>> \endtikzpicture
>> \bye
>
> Attached you find the output of the ConTeXt example and you can see that
> the color of the upper line (the one produced with TikZ inside ConTeXt)
> has a much brighter color than the one produced with plain TeX.
>
> I'm using ConTeXt MkIV distributed with TL 2016.
>
> How can I adjust the colors in ConTeXt to match the ones produced by
> plain TeX?  I need the adjustment in that direction, because I also have
> old images produced with plain TeX/LaTeX that I'd like to seamlessly
> integrate in my ConTeXt documents.

you need to figure out the default definitions in tikz then (i suppose 
'help lines' is related to some color)


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-12 11:53 Henri Menke
2016-07-12 12:29 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-07-12 13:44   ` Henri Menke
2016-07-12 14:44     ` Hans Hagen
2016-07-12 15:07       ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-07-12 16:03         ` Hans Hagen
2016-07-12 18:23           ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-07-12 19:39             ` Henri Menke
2016-07-12 20:01               ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-07-12 20:03               ` Hans Hagen
2016-07-12 21:17                 ` Henri Menke
2016-07-13  7:44                   ` Hans Hagen

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