Yes, dvi file can not display tikz picture correctly .
Why do you use divpng? Auctex can preview tikz , it does not use dvipng.
Thanks
2009/8/14 Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com>
> Graham Smith <myotis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Something I, as a comparative beginner can answer :-)
> >
> > > how to draw picture in org-mode ? Does it support tikz/pgf ?
> >
> > Yes, I found it worked fine for me. I had a silly problem with page
> > margins (searchng the forum for tikz/pgf will find my recent posts),
> > that was my fault but other than that the flow charts and mindmaps I
> > have done work well.
> >
>
> Let me add a qualifier: if you try to preview the image, then it does
> not seem to work, but that seems to be a characteristic of tikz/pgf,
> rather than org-mode.
>
> Here's the experiment, should somebody care to try it:
>
> o Start with a simple picture - the one waterloo posted earlier in
> the month will do:
>
> ,----
> | #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{tikz}
> |
> | * Draw
> |
> | \begin{tikzpicture}
> | \draw (0,0) -- (10,0);
> | \end{tikzpicture}
> `----
>
> o Export it to LaTeX with C-c C-e l.
>
> o Process the latex file with pdflatex and view with xpdf - everything
> is fine.
>
> o Process the latex file with latex, producing a dvi file. View the dvi
> file with xdvi: the picture is missing (and I get a Ghostscript error.)
>
> o Process the dvi file to PS with dvips and view the resulting PS file:
> the picture is there.
>
> Since (I'm guessing) preview processes the dvi file with dvipng and
> since the dvi file seems to have some kind of problem, preview does not
> work.
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
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