[Ipe-discuss] Make a banner in presentation.isy

[Alexander Wolff]

dear liu,

> I am currently tweaking the presentation.isy for making PPT using
> ipe.

i guess "PPT" means "presentation" here...?

by the way, with acrobat pro XI you can do the reverse quite well:
convert a pdf (e.g., produced by ipe) into a power point file --
if someone insists on getting your slides in ppt format.

> There are also two problem related with making presentation slide
> using ipe:
>
> 1. I used do presentation using PPT, there is a master template (the
> first page of .ppt) and a main template (the mainbody of .ppt) . How
> could I tweak the presentation.isy to manually insert some **field**
> in the master and main template ? i.e., just like the function of
> \PageTitle. So in this way, we can customize and distribute many
> user-contributed presentation styles for the ipe community, that
> pertains a fancy (or monocolored) background and the content area. I
> think the example given in the wikipage of ipe, Mlcm-talk.pdf, is
> great, which is also the file that I want to mimic. However I could
> not open it using ipe-7.1.4 windows.

if you like
http://lamut.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/mediawiki/ipe7/images/9/98/Mlcm-talk.pdf
, you can open the file in ipe and do
Edit -> Stylesheets -> kit-uka-presentation -> Save

then you have a template that you can adjust to your needs.

(the pdf that you downloaded had no ipe markup, so i asked the author to
send me a new file containing the ipe markup.  please download the file
once more and make sure the old version is not in the cache.)

> 2. How could I set up the default graphic folders **related** to the
> main file ? i.e., I have lots of drawings created by ipe(.pdf) and
> matlab (.eps) in two separate folders, I think a
> \includegraphics{file} might be a direct method in achieving this.
> However this command only insert a image place holder, the image
> content could not be displayed.

you cannot include pdf or eps into ipe.  you have to convert your files
using pdftoipe (and maybe epstopdf).  it's tricky if there is text, so i
often ended up converting to png :-(

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