[Ipe-discuss] Ipe-PDF inclusion with dvipdfm fails

Otfried Cheong ocheong at win.tue.nl
Wed Jul 9 14:22:07 CEST 2003


Christian Eitner writes:

 > I just tested Ipe (6 preview 9) on my LaTeX installation, which is
 > running good ol' pure LaTeX with dvipdfm (0.13.2b)
 > afterwards. Dvipdfm chokes on the Ipe-image:
 > 
 > Conversion via ->zcat -f ./ipeFirstTest.pdf | gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a0
 > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2
 > -dUseFlateCompression=true -sOutputFile=/tmp/filenJY6Ae - -c quit<-
 > failed ) pdf: image inclusion failed for (ipeFirstTest.pdf).  Image
 > special ignored.
 > 
 > The image only contains a rectangle, no text. I can preview it with
 > both xpdf and gv. Any ideas?

There are some problems with including Ipe PDF files (see earlier
messages on this list), but I'm not sure whether that is your
problem.  Apparently dvipdfm tries to convert Postscript to PDF
itself, so you could just try to save the figure in EPS format.

I will look into the PDF embedding problem in the next release.

Otfried





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