standalone + latex create full pages

Migrated from SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/p/pgfplots/bugs/128/ Author: tuusis Timestamp: 2016-08-25 20:39:10.897000

I am generating .eps figures using pgfplots + latex. After updating to the newest version I noticed that using for example

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
%
Test
%
\end{document}

creates a full page (probably in the default page size?), not only the content. Commenting out PGFPlots removes the empty page leaving only the content the way it should be.

The problem is that this problem propagates to the externalized graphs:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize[shell escape=-enable-write18]
\tikzset{external/system call={latex \tikzexternalcheckshellescape -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname "\image" "\texsource" && dvips -o "\image".eps "\image".dvi}}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

compiling the above with latex -shell-escape ... leads to an EPS figure with the size being a full page.

pdflatex, etc. produce the correct PDF results as expected in both cases. I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 32 bit, PGFPlots 1.14 is dated 2016-08-12 21:38:10.

Thank you for the continuing effort for this great package!

Regards, Topi

pgf-tikz / pgfplots

standalone + latex create full pages #128