[Ipe-discuss] Running Ipe on Mac OS X 10.5

Kelly Moran kellymoran23 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 16:00:25 CET 2008 

Really, my fix was just a horrendous hack. I basically spent a couple  
of hours searching my computer for any .dylib files beginning with the  
name libipe* I found most of these files in /usr/lib, but I have  
installed several versions of Ipe, some precompiled, some compiled  
straight from the source, and still others moderately tweaked, so  
needless to say, they were really all over the place. In essence, I  
just deleted everything Ipe-related I could find on my computer and  
then did a completely fresh install from source.

On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Zach Teitler wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> Sorry I couldn't help much with the last problem. But it might be  
> nice if you can post the solution to the list?
>
> As far as the crop boxes: I have always found that IPE makes the  
> cropbox too small on the bottom edge if there is text there; the  
> bottom edges of letters end up getting cut off. Your example is cut  
> off at the top, so perhaps it is a different problem. To be honest,  
> my solution is just to make a rectangle with white fill and  
> transparent or white edges, and behind everything else.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Zach
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Kelly Moran wrote:
>
>> Okay, I finally fixed this problem (which I found primarily in /usr/ 
>> lib), but I have now encountered another.
>>
>> Ipe seems to be making the CropBox too small, so part of my  
>> equation is cut off. Consider this example:
>>
>> <test.pdf>
>>
>> This seems to be happening with just text, not drawings. I cannot  
>> find out how to use the ArtBox instead. I would like the image to  
>> be cropped because I will be using them primarily in documents.
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>>
>> Kelly
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Tim Hutt wrote:
>>
>>> It means that the executable (ipe.app or ipe.exe) is running ok  
>>> but it
>>> is trying to use the libraries (the .dll files on windows, probably
>>> .so on OS X) from the previous version. There is a set of  
>>> directories
>>> that the system searches for these library files and it must be
>>> finding the old ones first.
>>>
>>> It's probably a good idea to remove the old version if you can (I've
>>> never used OS X so I have no idea how), or you can use  
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>> to override the search order so it finds the new libraries first.
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an environmental variable and you set it like  
>>> this
>>> (in the command line):
>>>
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/path/to/ipe/libs" ./ipe.app
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if you can set up a shortcut to do that easily on OS X
>>> though. Oh and if you did 'make' but not 'make install' then that  
>>> may
>>> be the problem.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Kelly Moran  
>>> <kellymoran23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Sorry, I'm fairly new to this whole mailing list thing and I  
>>>> don't think my
>>>> messages were going to the entire group.
>>>> Thanks for the help thus far, I really appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>> 1. I am running Qt version 4.3.3
>>>> 2. After doing this I get this message:
>>>>
>>>> Ipe has been compiled with header files for Ipelib 60032
>>>> but is (probably dynamically) linked against libipe 60030.
>>>> Check with 'ldd ipe' which libipe is being loaded, and either  
>>>> replace it by
>>>> the correct version or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not quite sure where LD_LIBRARY_PATH is located, so I don't  
>>>> know how to
>>>> go about fixing this. I should also point out that I am updating  
>>>> Ipe, I was
>>>> previously using pre30 but I was experiencing some problems which  
>>>> I felt
>>>> would make it worthwhile to upgrade.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,,
>>>>
>>>> Kelly
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Zach Teitler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Kelly,
>>>>
>>>> Ugh, that error message is so unclear.
>>>>
>>>> I googled a little and found this discussion thread:
>>>> <http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2007-08/thread00614-0.html>
>>>>
>>>> So a few things to try:
>>>>
>>>> 1. what version of Qt do you have?
>>>>
>>>> 2. Instead of "open ipe.app", try "ipe.app/Contents/MacOS/ipe" -  
>>>> does that
>>>> work?
>>>>
>>>> 3. In the thread, they say Qt might create a misformatted  
>>>> info.plist, so you
>>>> might want to fiddle around with that. On the other hand, the  
>>>> error number
>>>> you were getting is different than the error number in the thread.
>>>>
>>>> It is very strange that there is no "build" folder.
>>>>
>>>> Did you read this post? -
>>>> <http://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/ipe-discuss/2007-February/000620.html 
>>>> > There
>>>> are some options in Qt that I had to change in order to use Qt  
>>>> version
>>>> 4.2.2. I think I have not tried any newer version of Qt, so I  
>>>> don't know if
>>>> the same options still need to be changed there.
>>>>
>>>> Zach
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Kelly Moran wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When running the command you suggested, I get this error:
>>>>
>>>> LSOpenFromURLSpec() failed with error -10810 for the file
>>>> /Applications/Ipe/bin/ipe.app.
>>>>
>>>> I believe it has something to do with the libraries, but I'm not  
>>>> quite sure
>>>> how to fix it. I took a look
>>>> at http://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/ipe-discuss/2007-July/ 
>>>> 000657.html but I
>>>> can't understand the last part about which is what I think I  
>>>> need. There is
>>>> no "build" directory in the IPEPREFIX folder (which I put into my
>>>> applications folder). I was just going to try to use that ln -s  
>>>> command, but
>>>> I really don't understand how to if there is no "build" directory.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Kelly
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Zach Teitler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 27, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Kelly Moran wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I seem to have compiled Ipe 6.0 pre 31 successfully, but when I  
>>>> navigate to
>>>> the directory (bin) where Ipe was compiled and click on the .app  
>>>> file,
>>>> nothing happens. I'm not sure why this is happening. Any ideas  
>>>> how I can fix
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Kelly
>>>>
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>>>> I must confess I'm still using Ipe 6.0 pre 30, with some patches.  
>>>> It is
>>>> working fine on OS X 10.5.5, for what that is worth.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps try navigating to the bin directory on your command line  
>>>> and typing
>>>> "open ipe.app" to see what error message(s) there may be.
>>>>
>>>> Zach
>>>>
>>>>
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