[Ipe-discuss] a comment, and a problem with pdf to xml conversion (pdftoipe)
Kostas Oikonomou
k.oikonomou at att.net
Wed Apr 9 04:26:14 CEST 2003
Hello,
I've been using Ipe 5 for a while, and I was very happy to discover version 6!
I think v6 is a great improvement, with only one exception: the amount of
clicking necessary has increased! I very much liked the brevity (keyboard) of
v5. I read somewhere on the mailing list about "multi-key sequences" and
necessary modifications to the source. Will this make it into a future version?
I have v6 pre 9 running on a Sparc Solaris 8 system.
Now to a problem. I have a small PS file, showing a histogram of some data. I
convert it PDF using Acrobat distiller. I verify that the .ps and .pdf files
look the same. I try opening the PDF file with Ipe and I get "Error loading
document h.pdf". Then I run pdftoipe by hand on "h.pdf", to make "h.xml". Ipe
has no problem opening "h.xml". However, the labels on the x-axis, which are 0,
0.1, 0.2, etc, appear all as a single text object.
This is how the labels are in the orignal .ps file:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
newpath
0.00 0.00 0.00 setrgbcolor /Times-Roman findfont 0017 scalefont setfont
(0) stringwidth pop 2 div neg 98 add 31 moveto
(0) show
0.00 0.00 0.00 setrgbcolor /Times-Roman findfont 0017 scalefont setfont
(0.1) stringwidth pop 2 div neg 139 add 31 moveto
(0.1) show
0.00 0.00 0.00 setrgbcolor /Times-Roman findfont 0017 scalefont setfont
(0.2) stringwidth pop 2 div neg 181 add 31 moveto
(0.2) show
0.00 0.00 0.00 setrgbcolor /Times-Roman findfont 0017 scalefont setfont
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
etc.
Kostas Oikonomou
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