[OS X TeX] Changing size of tikzfigure figures

["M. Tamer Özsu"]

Great. I do a lot of experimenting with tikz — the learning curve is high so experimenting helps. And stackexchange...

==Tamer
--
M. Tamer Özsu
Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
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> On Feb 26, 2018, at 8:39 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu <mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu>> wrote:
> 
> Tamer:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I was told by another respondent about resizebox, and I used it successfully by experimenting with sizes, but I didn’t quite know how to do it in terms of the actual page size.  I will try your method as I go along.
> 
> Zbigniew Nitecki
> Department of Mathematics
> Tufts University
> Medford, MA 02155
> 
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>> On Feb 26, 2018, at 18:31, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com <mailto:ozsut at mac.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I normally use \resizebox for this to make sure that the text as well as the figure is scaled:
>> 
>> \resizebox{<horizontal size>}{<vertical size>}{
>> \begin{tikzpicture}
>> …
>> \end{tikzpicture}
>> }
>> 
>> If you want to resize proportionately, you set either the vertical or horizontal and then use {!} for the other. E.g.:
>> 
>> \resizebox{!}{0.8\textheight}{
>> \begin{tikzpicture}
>> …
>> \end{tikzpicture}
>> }
>> 
>> I usually keep each tikzpicture in a separate file to include in various documents and beamer presentations. Then I do the following:
>> 
>> \resizebox{!}{0.8\textheight}{<filename>}
>> 
>> ==Tamer
>> --
>> M. Tamer Özsu
>> Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
>> University of Waterloo
>> https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu>
>> +1-519-888-4043
>> 
>>> On Feb 26, 2018, at 3:18 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu <mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am putting together a beamer presentation which incorporates pictures of braids using the braid package.  In this package, the figures are created  using the tikzpicture environment.  These can quickly get too tall for beamer;  when I am simply generating them in a paper, latex seems to take care of the size, but beamer does not—it simply falls off the bottom of the slide.  Is there a way (similar to for example setting units in pstricks) that I can control the height of a tikzpicture so that it fits inside a single beamer slide?
>>> 
>>> Zbigniew Nitecki
>>> Department of Mathematics
>>> Tufts University
>>> Medford, MA 02155
>>> 
>>> telephones:
>>> Office    (617)627-3843
>>> Dept.    (617)627-3234
>>> Dept. fax    (617)627-3966
>>> http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/ <http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/>
>>> 
>>> 
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