Cfrgtkky

I want to create a tikz picture that makes usage of beamer commands such as only<2>, thereby creating multiple pages and adding lines etc. only in the second page.
I then later on want to include these pages in a presentation.

Currently, I'm doing that by using documentclass{beamer}, and putting the tikzpicture inside a frame. However, this forces me to finish the presentation in this document: I need to specify frame title, and also footer, and presentation styles.

I would much rather just create the plain pictures here, include them in the other presentation using begin{frame}{Foo} includegraphics{...}end{frame}. However, when I do that inside beamer, there is unnecessary white space around the tikzpictures. When I don't do it inside beamer, I cannot use the only. What should I do?

%documentclass[tikz]{standalone}

documentclass{beamer}

usepackage{tikz}

usepackage{pgfplots}

begin{document}



begin{frame}



begin{tikzpicture}

begin{axis} 

addplot[blue, thick] {x};

only<2>{addplot[blue, thick, dashed] {2*x};}

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}

end{frame}



end{document}

UPDATE: standalone and beamer and only do work, just not with crop but with preview.

documentclass[beamer,tikz,preview]{standalone}

usepackage{pgfplots}

%usetikzlibrary{overlay-beamer-styles} % for advanced overlay options

pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}

begin{document}

begin{standaloneframe}

begin{tikzpicture}

begin{axis} 

addplot[blue, thick] {x};

only<2>{

addplot[blue, thick, dashed] {2*x};

}

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}

end{standaloneframe}

end{document}

This becomes much simpler and better IMHO when using overlay-beamer-styles.

documentclass[beamer,tikz,preview]{standalone}

usepackage{pgfplots}

usetikzlibrary{overlay-beamer-styles} % for advanced overlay options

pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}

begin{document}

begin{standaloneframe}

begin{tikzpicture}

begin{axis} 

addplot[blue, thick] {x};

addplot[blue, thick, dashed,visible on=<2>] {2*x};

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}

end{standaloneframe}

end{document}

OLD ANSWER (perhaps also useful for some applications, so I keep it for now): Maybe something like this? The role of beamers only is taken by ifnum.

documentclass[tikz]{standalone}

usepackage{pgfplots}

pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}

begin{document}

foreach X in {1,2}

{begin{tikzpicture}

begin{axis} 

addplot[blue, thick] {x};

ifnumX=2

addplot[blue, thick, dashed] {2*x};

fi

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}}

end{document}

Of course, you can make much more elaborate examples. Just like in beamer presentations with only, a multipage pdf is generated. Here, however, the figures are cropped at their bounding boxes.

Of course, in a real example you may want to make sure that the coordinates do not jump, e.g. with

documentclass[tikz]{standalone}

usepackage{pgfplots}

pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}

begin{document}

foreach X in {1,2}

{begin{tikzpicture}

begin{axis} 

addplot[blue, thick] {x};

ifnumX=2

addplot[blue, thick, dashed] {2*x};

else

addplot[blue, thick, dashed,opacity=0] {2*x};

fi

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}}

end{document}