[Ipe-discuss] Viewing postscript results from ipe drawing

[Nathaniel Cunningham]

Hi Dave,
You could probably eliminate one conversion by saving your Ipe drawing as
PDF, then using pdftops or similar to convert that to .eps.

Typically saving your Ipe-produced PDF or EPS with any other program will
eliminate the embedded Ipe commands.

-- Nathaniel

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:56 AM, David Topham <dtopham at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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