[Ipe-announce] Ipe preview 15 available
Otfried Cheong
ocheong at win.tue.nl
Fri Jun 4 18:23:47 CEST 2004
For an important presentation recently I made my first serious Ipe
presentation, and found preview 14 quite inconvenient for doing
so. Before actually making my presentation, I've therefore added some
features to Ipe that make presentation-making much more convenient.
The main new features are
* One-button creation of text objects that span the page horizontally
(F10)
* Support for incrementally built-up pages by having access to
"views" (the multiple steps of a page presentation) in the main Ipe
UI. The special view/page presentation dialog is still there, but
not often needed.
See below for many other changes.
As an example, you can have a look at my presentation at
http://ipe.compgeom.org/area-slides.pdf
My apologies to those of you who just finished making their
presentations for SoCG...
Enjoy,
Otfried
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Ipe 6.0 preview 15 (2004-06-04)
* Fixed handling of transformation matrix in Pdftoipe. Pdftoipe
is now actually considered supported.
* Added option -math to pdftoipe. With this option, all text objects
are turned into math formulas.
* Color changes in text objects (e.g. made using \textcolor) and
quotient bars are now shown on screen.
* Views (that is, page views) are now fully integrated in Ipe's main
user interface. They are easier to create and maintain.
* Views keep a record of the active layer, so that switching back to
a view to edit it makes objects go in the right layer (usually).
* Pressing the right mouse button in the layer list opens a context
menu.
* Changed handling of style-sheet stretching of text objects. The
width/depth/height of text objects now correctly reflects this
stretching, and when creating a minipage object, the user drags out
the actual desired width.
Unfortunately, this changes the semantics of Ipe documents! To
make it possible to do this change automatically, the style sheet
tag has been renamed from <textmatrix> to <textstretch> (with
slightly changed syntax, see the manual). Currently, a simple
automatic conversion is done: if the style sheet contains ANY
textmatrix tag, the conversion factor is applied to the width of
ALL text objects in the document.
* Simple background shadings are now possible using <shading> in a
style sheet.
* Two new types of text objects defined. They are just variants of
label and minipage. A new function 'Insert text object' creates
textbox objects with fixed left and right margins (set in the style
sheet).
* Move-to-back function now inserts in front of anything in
background layer.
* Renamed the method NotifyStyle to CheckStyle.
* Added a simple clipping ipelet (clips only marks and line segments
to a convex polygon - just about enough to be useful for clipping
Voronoi diagrams).
* Fixed bug #42 (linewidth could be null in IpeBBoxPainter).
* Ipe remembers file format used for saving.
* Latex style files are now searched for both in the current
directory and in the directory containing the Ipe document.
* Command line option -geom WxH+X+Y (note the slight difference to
X11, where the option is '-geometry'). Smarter zoom on opening
documents.
* Simplified handling of locked layers. A locked layer cannot be
made the active layer now.
* Each page stores the grid size used to create it.
* Only one (global) media size per Ipe document.
* Refactored Ipe program into separate model/canvas library.
The Ipe canvas can be reused by programs wishing to display Ipe
data.
* Ipe file format conversion functionality (-topng, -topdf etc) has
been moved into a separate program "ipetoipe".
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