Automated way to check for PGF version
April 21, 2010
This is one way to check for the version of PGF that is installed in an automated way. First create a tex file with the following contents: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \batchmode \makeatletter \typeout{PGFVersion=\pgfversion} \@@end Say you named it test-pgf-version.tex. Then: pdflatex test-pgf-version.tex cat test-pgf-verson.log | grep PGFVersion | sed ‘s/PGFVersion=//’ should display the version number. I [...]
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