Hello Mykel,

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 8:02:14 PM UTC+1, Mykel Kochenderfer 
wrote:
>
> You need to make sure you are running texlive 2014. If you are indeed 
> running texlive 2014, then I'm happy to look into this more deeply with 
> you. Please file an issue <https://github.com/sisl/PGFPlots.jl/issues> 
> with the code you're trying to use to plot. If you want to try digging into 
> it a little on your own, you can follow these steps:
> 1. run "using TikzPictures"
> 2. run "tikzDeleteIntermediate(false)"
> 3. rerun the commands you used to plot
> 4. go into the console and run "lualatex tikzpicture" on the 
> tikzpicture.tex that is generated in the current directory
> 5. the errors you get in step 4 should give a hint as to what is wrong
>
> Thanks, this was very helpful. 

In my case I had to 
 - install texlive 2014 (from mactex, old version was 2009)
 - update / upgrade brew
 - install pdf2svg (using `brew homebrew/x11/pdf2svg`)

which all in all took several hours on my old laptop (2010), and a system 
crash.  

Cheers, 

---david 

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 5:21:46 AM UTC-8, David van Leeuwen wrote:
>>
>> Hello, 
>>
>> On Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 11:05:08 PM UTC+2, Mykel Kochenderfer 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are three new Julia packages for interfacing with PGF/TikZ 
>>> <http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf> for making publication-quality graphics.
>>>
>>>    1. TikzPictures.jl <https://github.com/sisl/TikzPictures.jl>. Basic 
>>>    interface to PGF/TikZ. Images can be saved as PDF, SVG, and TEX. If 
>>> using 
>>>    IJulia, it will output SVG images.
>>>    2. PGFPlots.jl <https://github.com/sisl/PGFPlots.jl>. Plotting tool 
>>>    that uses the pgfplots <http://ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots> package (built 
>>>    on top of TikZ).
>>>    3. TikzGraphs.jl <https://github.com/sisl/TikzGraphs.jl>. Graph 
>>>    layout package using algorithms built into PGF/TikZ 3.0+.
>>>
>>> Documentation is provided with each package. Installation of the 
>>> dependencies (e.g., pdf2svg and pgfplots) is still a bit manual, but 
>>> instructions are in the documentation.
>>>
>>
>> This looks great, thanks.   
>>
>> However, I run into problems with PGFPlots:
>>
>> Error saving as SVG 
>> ERROR: The pdf generation failed.
>>  Be sure your latex libraries are fully up to date!
>>  You tried: `lualatex --enable-write18 --output-directory=. tikzpicture`
>>
>>
>> The latex on my system (I think a tex live latex on mac) is pdflatex. Does 
>> anyone know how I can configure this in PGFPlots?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> ---david
>>
>

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