[Ipe-discuss] prefs.auto_export_xml_to_pdf no longer present

[Dietmar Winkler]

Sorry I was a bit slow there. I only now understand what you are
saying. So yes you are right I can actually do what I want by simply
using ipetoipe in an automated fashion. Thanks again for the hint.

On 27 July 2016 at 09:27, Dietmar Winkler <dietmar.winkler at hit.no> wrote:
> Yes that or in my case I would not put the PDFs under version control
> but run ipetoipe as part of my LaTeX project Makefile. That way I have
> only one file as source but LaTeX is always happy :-)
>
> On 27 July 2016 at 09:24, Otfried Cheong <otfried at ipe.airpost.net> wrote:
>> Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
>>
>> You could set up a git rule, though, that automatically runs ipetoipe
>> -pdf whenever the .ipe file is changed, right?
>>
>> Otfried
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, at 09:17, Dietmar Winkler wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I see. Well for me it makes sense to still have my files as in xml
>>> format since I'm putting all my files under (git) version control.
>>> Having them as xml as source means I can look at proper diffs. This is
>>> not possible for the PDFs as git will simply regard them as binary
>>> blobs and not show any diffs.
>>>
>>> So for me it would still make sens to have the auto-export feature.
>>> That way I have some easy to trace record of my changes.
>>>
>>> But then again that's just me and I don't know how much effort it is
>>> to reimplement that feature again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27 July 2016 at 09:04, Otfried Cheong <otfried at ipe.airpost.net> wrote:
>>> > Auto-exporting was removed in 7.1.10, together with saving in EPS
>>> > format, because nobody seemed to be using it.
>>> >
>>> > The reason people had been using that in the past is to make sure they
>>> > had a readable copy of a document when Ipe somehow failed to reopen the
>>> > PDF file.    However, since ipeextract can now convert a PDF document
>>> > back to an XML document even if Ipe itself cannot parse the file, this
>>> > isn't that important anymore (in fact I know of no case where a document
>>> > got lost for this reason in the last several years).   The OSX Pdf
>>> > Viewer likes to murder PDF files, but it seems to always keep old
>>> > versions available, and by reverting to the earliest version you can
>>> > open in Ipe again.
>>> >
>>> > But if there is real demand for it, I can easily revive this feature
>>> > (auto-exporting to PDF whenever the XML document is being saved).
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> >  Otfried
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, at 08:26, Dietmar Winkler wrote:
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I've now tried to set up Ipe to autosave to PDF. In the old days that
>>> >> was done via menue. By searching the mailing list for "auto export
>>> >> pdf" the only mention I could find [1] is that this is now done via
>>> >> the "prefs.auto_export_xml_to_pdf" setting in prefs.lua
>>> >>
>>> >> But looking at the prefs.lua that comes with 7.2.5 there does not seem
>>> >> to be that setting. Has it been renamed or is this feature now
>>> >> implemented in a totally different way?
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> /Dietmar/
>>> >>
>>> >>  [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.ipe.general/1192
>>> >>
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Dietmar Winkler, Assistant professor
University College of Southeast Norway
Faculty of Technology
Campus: Porsgrunn

http://me.dwe.no

Kjølnes ring 56, 3918 Porsgrunn, Norway