[Ipe-discuss] Script to export all views from all pages of the Ipe drawing

[Wojciech Zabolotny]

I have noticed, that my script exports huge PDF files. I can get much
smaller PDFs, when I use GUI and:
1. Set the desired View
2. Export it to EPS
3. Run "epstopdf" to convert EPS to PDF.

Unfortunately, exportView does not support "eps" format. It is
obvious, because the source code contains:

bool Document::exportView(const char *fname, TFormat format, uint flags,
                          int pno, int vno) const
{
  if (format != EPdf)
    return false;

GUI does something different:

function MODEL:action_export_eps()
[...]
    self.ui:renderPage(self.doc, self.pno, self.vno,
                       "eps", s, 1.0, false, false)

Unfortunately, the ui and its renderPage method seems to be not
available for ipelets...
Is it possible to efficiently export views from ipelet?

TIA & Regards,
Wojtek

2018-05-13 22:42 GMT+02:00 Wojciech Zabolotny <wzab01 at gmail.com>:
> The first version of my script does not properly export LaTeX objects.
> It is necessary to add doc:runLatex right after loading of the IPE drawing:
>
> doc = ipe.Document(fname)
> doc:runLatex()
>
> After that modification, LaTeX equations and texts are rendered correctly.
> --
> Regards,
> Wojtek



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