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

[Gmail]

Hi, zhengdao. It's a nice tutorial! However it also unveils some shortcomings of ipe :

1, small number of supported files and import features.
2, maybe we could create some categories and make them as the drawing objects expansion sets, that can be downloaded separately .
3, keyboard combinations are also shortcomings, when in presentation mode, maybe we can show some easy access buttons, like insert/delete/swap views , insert/delete/arrange pages. This also makes tablets, or pads users more convenient .
4, support modern fonts systems, like easy access to some OTF or TTF fonts,  maybe upgrade to luatex be an option.
5, pre customized fields. For example, in the first page, the user cannot add or delete symbols , simply CTRL+E to edit the existing elements. In the main part, the title page might not be call from the menu or pop up window, simply leave it to the toolbar is Ok!

L

> You can do the following:
> 
> 1. Start Ipe with the presentation sheet.
> 
> 2. Put what you want to be shown on every page on the canvas. This can
> include any thing that you can draw, as well as images that you can
> insert (PNG, JPEG, etc) with the "Insert image" Ipelet.
> 
> 3. Group all these objects into one group, using Menu -> Edit ->
> Group. (You need to select them first).
> 
> 4. While the group is still selected (or select it if not), create a
> new symbol using Menu -> Ipelets -> Create Symbol. Either new or top
> sheet style sheet would be fine. (I don't think they make a difference
> -- may be a bug). When prompted, name the symbol Background (this is
> a magic symbol name - see manual
> http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual_27.html
> (Under section "Symbols").
> 
> 5. Each page will have the grouped object named Background, except:
> 
> 6. On pages that you do not want the background, create or rename a
> layer to BACKGROUND.
> 
> You may want to save a presentation with only the first page as a
> template for future use so that next time, you can just copy the
> template to a new Ipe file before creating the presentation.
> 
> Zhengdao
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: by liu <liubenyuan at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:44:21 +0800
>> CC: ipe-discuss at lists.science.uu.nl
>> Subject: Re: [Ipe-discuss] Make a banner in presentation.isy
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> It's a good start reading the Mlcm-talk.pdf slides. It's a good design
>> AFAK. I noticed the path command in the symbol **Background**, it is so
>> complicated, is it written by the author by hand or created using some
>> third party applications ?
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Alexander Wolff <
>> alexander.wolff at uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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 :-(
>>> 
>>> sascha
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Ipe-discuss mailing list
>>> Ipe-discuss at lists.science.uu.nl
>>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/ipe-discuss
> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ipe-discuss mailing list
>> Ipe-discuss at lists.science.uu.nl
>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/ipe-discuss