[Ipe-discuss] pdftoipe then ipe open gives parse error

[Otfried Cheong]

A "parsing error" can mean anything - any problem found by the XML
parser.   Look in the file f1040_2015.merge-1unicode-3.ipe at character
position 262, you may be able to figure out what is wrong.

You should try the most recent version of pdftoipe, which is 2014/03/03.
 If this doesn't solve the problem, you can file a bug report at
https://github.com/otfried/ipe-tools/issues.  You would have to include
the pdf file f1040_2015.pdf so that we can try to reproduce the problem.

In any case, pdftoipe is somewhat of a hack, and not really supported.

In Ipe 7.2.5 you may be able to achieve what you want to do by using
\includegraphics.

Cheers,
 Otfried


On Wed, Aug 3, 2016, at 00:07, Larry Evans wrote:
> On 08/02/2016 04:31 PM, Larry Evans wrote:
> > Using the f1040.pdf for 2015, I tried:
> >
> > pdftoipe -merge 1 -unicode 3 f1040_2015.pdf f1040_2015.merge-1unicode-3.ipe
> >
> > However, when that output file was opened with ipe, an
> > error message window popped up with:
> >
> > --{--errormsg contents--
> > Document
> > '/home/evansl/Desktop/f1040_2015.mere-1unicode-3.ipe' could
> > not be opened
> >
> > Parsing error at postion 262
> > --}--errormsg contents--
> >
> > What should I do to avoid this error message window.
> >
> [snip]
>  From url:
> 
> http://ipe.otfried.org/
> 
> downloaded:
> 
> ipe-7.2.5-src.tar.gz
> 
> After unzip;untar;grep -e 'Parsing error' got hits in:
> 
> ./ipelua/ipeluastyle.cpp
> 
> but code at both hits indicated the program was complaining
> because of a missing style sheet:
> 
>      StyleSheet *sheet = parser.parseStyleSheet();
>      if (!sheet) {
>        lua_pushnil(L);
>        lua_pushfstring(L, "Parsing error at %d", parser.parsePosition());
>        return 2;
>      }
> 
> Shouldn't the pdftoipe program have supplied that style sheet
> if ipe expects it?
> 
> -regards,
> Larry
> 
> 
> 
> 
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