Native TikZ backend?

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I recently had to produce some graphics using TikZ for a paper. Doing
> this made me realise what a simple way of expressing graphics TikZ
> really is. I just spend an hour or two hacking a TikZ backend for the
> graphics system together. I'm attaching the code.
>
> To see it in action, run
>
>  demo print_tikz
>
> from Octave and
>
>  pdflatex mytest.tex
>
> from your shell. This will produce a 'mytest.pdf' for you to look at.
>
> The code is very incomplete, and I'm not sure if I'll ever have the  
> time
> to finish it, but I thought I'd share anyway.
>
> Søren
> <print_tikz.m>

TikZ is able to produce some excellent figures and works nicely with  
latex+dvips+ps2pdf as well as pdflatex. Do you plan to extend your  
backend to include all graphics objects?

Ben