Hi, Today, I am so happy that I can use xelatex together with tikz's externalizing feature. I archived this by getting great helps from the lists. So far so good.
Then I soon realized that there is still a little problem. I cannot
use '\beginpgfgraphicnamed' command to control the externalized
picture names as that illustrated in the section 86 of the pgf manual.
I will get error if i run xelatex with '-jobname' parameter. I.e.,
xelatex -shell-escape -jobname 'foo-tree' foo
will report:
! Package tikz Error: Sorry, the system call 'xelatex -halt-on-error -interacti
on=batchmode -jobname "foo-tree-figure0" "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{foo-tree}\in
put{foo-tree}"' did NOT result in a usable output file 'foo-tree-figure0' (expe
cted one of .pdf:.jpg:.jpeg:.png:). Please verify that you have enabled system
calls. For pdflatex, this is 'pdflatex -shell-escape'. Sometimes it is also nam
ed 'write 18' or something like that. Or maybe the command simply failed? Error
messages can be found in 'foo-tree-figure0.log'. If you continue now, I'll try
to typeset the picture.
So, I can only use 'xelatex -shell-escape foo' that will give me
pictures with automatic names foo-figure0.pdf, foo-figure1.pdf ...
I attached my minimal sample source file. Please have a look at it
when you have several minutes.
Best Regards,
--
Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence
-- Schopenhauer
narke
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foo.tex
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