[Ipe-discuss] Clip to convex polygon

[thingkcp at netscape.net]

>> First, a fairly simple matter, I hope. The Ipelet 'Clip to convex
>> polygon'.  Could someone explain to me what it does and how I use it?
>
>My apologies that your question wasn't answered more quickly. 
>Apparently nobody else feeled entitled to commment on this ipelet - 
>you've put your finger directly on a weak point of Ipe :-)
>
>This ipelet is unfinished, buggy, and undocumented.  You should probably 
>simply ignore it until it is documented in the Ipe manual.  It is only 
>in the distribution because it more-or-less works to prune Voronoi 
>diagrams, which is something I and a few other people do use already, 
>and since it works as in Ipe 5, some "oldtimers" manage to get some 
>milage out of it...
>

Thanks for the explanation: I am quite content to leave that Ipelet to those people who have a use for it.

I had been hoping that this Ipelet might do one of a couple of things:
   wrap text around an objext
   enable complex cropping of a bitmap
Either of these functions would be a really valuable feature, in my opinion.

Regards
Þing



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