Export tikz as image file

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I have created a tikz picture as a standalone.

Can I export the tex file as an image instead of as a pdf?

A couple possible solutions are discussed in http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/11880/55879. — Arun Debray, Oct 26 '15 at 13:59
standalone provides convert option. For this you will need imagemagick installed. — , Oct 26 '15 at 14:04
Or you can directly convert it using imagemagick → convert -density 300 yourfile.pdf yourfile.png (or .jpg whatever) — , Oct 26 '15 at 15:37
QTikZ is a nice editor cum preview pane and offers export to PNG — vaettchen, Oct 26 '15 at 17:29

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '15 at 15:30

I achieved the best results with pdftoppm, the anti-aliasing is much better than imagemagicks convert.

Just do:

$ pdftoppm -png -r <dpi> document.pdf > document.png

I usually use 300 or 600 dpi.

pdftoppm comes with poppler (package poppler-utils on Ubuntu).

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '15 at 14:37

If you are using Texmaker, right-click on the pdf, then choose convert page to png image choice. Note: if you intend to include this image in your tex file, then you can include the pdf directly. As a matter of fact, the quality of the pdf is better than converting the pdf to an image.

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