[Ipe-discuss] A feature suggestion for IPE

[Otfried Cheong]

> I have a small feature suggestion for IPE. To me the XML format is the
> "native" format for IPE. I may accidentally mess with the .eps file or
> the .pdf file using some other program, but the XML is (in my mind) IPEs
> native file. I need to keep both eps and pdf versions of the diagrams I
> draw (don't ask, don't ask) and I think that an option setting in IPE
> that allows us to save changes to the XML file and automatically save
> the .eps and .pdf versions simultaneously would be fabulous.
> 
> So you would go to help->preferences  and there would be three
> checkboxes, one saying "Use XML as native" and the other two saying
> "Automatically export to .eps", "Automatically export to .pdf"

I like the suggestion of "automatically export", it is cleaner than what 
Ipe currently does (namely to offer to save as the other format if that 
file already exists).

But what would "Use XML as native" actually do?

Note, by the way, that the name of the program is "Ipe", not "IPE".

Otfried