[Ipe-discuss] Viewing postscript results from ipe drawing

Zhengdao Wang zhengdao at iastate.edu
Tue Jul 28 19:04:23 CEST 2015


I am not sure exactly what you want. But if you take a
look at the .ipe or .xml file that is saved by Ipe, you
will see some primitive drawing commands.

Zhengdao

-----Original Message-----
> From: David Topham <dtopham at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:56:39 -0700
> To: ipe-discuss at lists.science.uu.nl
> Subject: [Ipe-discuss] Viewing postscript results from ipe drawing
>
> Hmmmm...no replies...perhaps not an interesting topic?
>
> I did some more research and experiments and have one possible
> solution in case anyone else is interested some day...
>
> Generate eps file using ipe
> use pstoedit to convert eps to mp
> use mpost to generate ps
>
> This solves my original problem of how to view
> results of ipe drawing as simple postscript with
> no added binary information and no shortcut
> definitions!
>
> -Dave
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:33 AM, David Topham <dtopham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello, I am a newbie to IPE and like what I see so far!  I thought my
> > first few questions could be found by searching these archives, but don't
> > see how to do that? Is there a way besides browsing random "threads"?
> > I did try google searches and have read the manual...
> >
> > Question:
> > I saved my first drawing as EPS and then opened that in a editor. I see
> > lots of "def"s in there which make it pretty hard to see the raw postscript
> > produced. Is there any way to convert the eps that ipe produces into
> > something more like you might write manually using postscript directly?
> >
> > i.e. No unreadable binary and no defs for typical ops.
> > e.g. Here is a postscript file to draw a line:
> >
> > newpath
> > 144 72 moveto
> > 144 432 lineto
> > stroke
> > showpage
> >
> > but this is not what I see if I let IPE produce a line drawing...
> >

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