[Ipe-discuss] Some patches and a new binary
Freek
freek_ipe at vanwal.nl
Thu Jan 15 22:16:30 CET 2009
The latest version of Ipe (6.0pre32) contains a rather annoying bug (#279)
concerning incorrect rounding of floating-point numbers that causes saved
drawings to look bad: vertices of different objects that appear to be in the
same place are slightly offset in saved drawings. A patch for this problem is
included in the bug report. I have compiled a new (Windows) binary that
includes this and other patches solving some smaller problems, namely:
- Unnecessarily changing the current view after undo, redo, and some other
actions (bug #238).
- Resizing of the text-edit and page dialogs (bug #278).
- Re-enabling the possibility to change the editor font (now also includes the
font used for the preamble), without re-introducing bugs #191 and #251.
The Windows binary can be found here (note that it's a bit larger than the
standard one due to newer versions of auxiliary libraries):
http://www.vanwal.nl/ipe-6.0pre32-fvw1-win.zip
Gentoo users may want to use an adapted ebuild:
http://www.vanwal.nl/ebuilds/ipe-6.0_pre32-r1.ebuild
Users of other operating systems can patch the source themselves and
recompile. All patches are available at http://www.vanwal.nl/ebuilds/files/ .
I hope this stuff is useful for others.
P.S. If you have a file that only looks corrupted in a PDF viewer but appears
correct in Ipe, re-saving the drawing with this version of Ipe will solve the
problem. I have not updated the Ipe version number (except for the archive
name), in order not to disturb the regular numbering scheme. The current
version should be fully compatible with the standard pre32 version.
--
Freek
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