[Ipe-discuss] Newbie to the list and Mandriva 2006 package

[Otfried Cheong]

> Right now, the two most important features of ipe for me are bitmap 
> insert and pdftoipe. Is there a way of integrating pdftoipe into ipe 
> itself, so we can "import a pdf" into ipe?

One could write an ipelet that implements this functionality - it would 
call pdftoipe on the file, open the temporary xml file, and insert it 
into the current document.

Pdftoipe cannot become part of Ipe proper, as it binds in nearly the 
entire Xpdf program...

Otfried