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tikzscale --- Absolute resizing of TikZ pictures and PGF plots without
              scaling text
E-mail: pat_h@web.de Released under the LaTeX Project
Public License v1.3c or later See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
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The tikzscale package extends the includegraphics command to support
tikzpictures. It allows scaling of TikZ images and PGFPlots to a provided
width or height without changing the text size.

Usage: \usepackage{tikzscale}

As an example write
\includegraphics{myTikZFile.tikz}
instead of
\includegraphics{myJPEGFile.jpeg},
with myTikZFile.tikz being the file name of a text file containing
everything from \begin{tikzpicture} to \end{tikzpicture}. To actually
do some scaling of the included TikZ file, give either an absolute width
or an absolute height in the optional argument, e.g.
\tikzscale@includetikz[width=0.5\linewidth]{myTikZFile.tikz}.
If the file contains a plot created with the PGFPlots package, set both
width and height via the optional argument, e.g.
\tikzscale@includetikz[width=\linewidth,height=0.4\linewidth]{myPGFPlot.tikz}.