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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Problems with TikZ and absolute positioning
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:05:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568A8A35.10105@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2dc0371cd4104922b9c8572cfd15179a@amu.edu.pl>

On 1/4/2016 3:51 PM, Michał Goliński wrote:
> The following code:
>
> \usemodule[tikz]


add this to cont-new.mkiv:

     \let \pdfsavepos          \savepos
     \let \pdflastxpos         \lastxpos
     \let \pdflastypos         \lastypos

i'll add it for a while to the core till tikz is in sync with the latest 
luatex


> \starttext
> \starttikzpicture[remember picture,overlay]
> \node [xshift=1cm,yshift=1cm] at (current page.south west)
> [text width=7cm,fill=red!20,rounded corners,above right]
> {
> This is an absolutely positioned text in the
> lower left corner. No shipout-hackery is used.
> };
> \stoptikzpicture
> \stoptext
>
>
> gives a blank page with a red box in the lower left corner. At least
> this is how it works in current TeXLive. When compiling, a temporary
> .pgf file is created with the following contents:
>
> \pgfsyspdfmark {pgfid1}{4661756}{46204089}
>
>
>
> When compiling with the current beta this doesn't work.
>
> If the .pgf file is already present, one gets:
>
> tex error       > tex error on line 1 in file mwe.pgf: ! Undefined
> control sequence
>
> l.1 \pgfsyspdfmark
>                   {pgfid1}{4661756}{46204089}
>
> 1 >>  \pgfsyspdfmark {pgfid1}{4661756}{46204089}
>
>
> When one removes the .pgf file, the compilation succeeds (with empty
> .pgf file), but in the PDF there is no red box, and the text is not in
> the lower left corner (although text is wrapped as if it were in a box).
>
> When compiling one gets the warning:
>
> Package pgf: Warning! Your graphic driver pgfsys-dvips.def does not
> support marking the current position. This warning is given only once.
> Non-PDF special ignored!
> Non-PDF special ignored!
> ...
>
> Is this a bug or maybe absolute positioning is done differently?
>
> Best regards
> Michal Golinski
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-04 14:51 Michał Goliński
2016-01-04 15:05 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-01-05  9:16   ` Michał Goliński
2016-01-05  9:32   ` Michał Goliński

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