[Ipe-discuss] Where's pdftoipe?

[Thon, Michael]

Guys,

pdftoipe is on the sourceforge page of ipe under Files -> Tools. You can download it and compile it yourself.

MacPorts has so called "portfiles" that are essentially compile and install scripts for various open source software. There is a portfile for ipe and one for ipe-tools (the packages under the tools directory on the ipe sourceforge site). There is no magic going on. If you have a look at the ipe-tools portfile, it essentially reads download the packages from sourceforge, configure, compile, install. It should be trivial to write an equivalent homebrew script if anyone wants to do so. Also, it should be no problem to just compile and install oneself.

MacPorts will install its own set of open-source libraries that it relies on, so you will have these in addition to the OSX ones, which wastes perhaps a GB or two of hard disk space and some memory, but saves many dependency hassles if you use it to manage many open-source packages. If you are familiar with the Linux or BSD package systems, then you will feel quite at home with MacPorts.

Hope this helps,
Michael

On Oct 30, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Christian Staudt wrote:

> Homebrew doesn't have a package called "ipe-tools". Installing MacPorts is not an option for me, it is known to conflict with Homebrew (as well as being inferior).
> 
> Any other places where I might find pdftoipe?
> 
> Chris
> 
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> Am 30.10.2012 um 14:10 schrieb Murat Yildizoglu <myildi at gmail.com>:
> 
>> I use macports for installing ipe (by the way, only for instlalling ipe), and therecis a ipe-tools port that normally installs these convertion utilities. Maybe Homebrew also has this. 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Murat Yildizoglu
>> http://yildizoglu.info
>> 
>> Le mardi 30 octobre 2012 à 12:10, Christian Staudt a écrit :
>> 
>>> Hello ipe users,
>>> 
>>> I am new to ipe. One feature I need is the ability to import and edit PDF figures created by other applications. 
>>> In this context, a separate program named "pdftoipe" or "pdf2ipe" is often mentioned. However, I cannot find any downloads for this. The ipe website states that it is "available from SourceForge", but there's no link to it.
>>> 
>>> I work on OSX 10.8 and installed ipe via the package manager homebrew. Unfortunately, homebrew does not package pdftoipe.
>>> 
>>> Are there maybe other options for importing and editing PDF figures with ipe I have overlooked?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Chris
>>> 
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