[Ipe-discuss] presentation not launching

[Otfried Cheong]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, at 19:14, David Topham wrote:
> Interesting! I use that option all the time with no problems on Debian 9
> 
> It is ipe 7.2.7

That doesn't really contradict what I said - 7.2.7 is from 2016...

I also remember using this, so it must have been broken after that...

Have you tried my Debian packages of state-of-the-art Ipe?   You'll be surprised how much Ipe has improved.

Cheers,
  Otfried


> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:11 AM Otfried Cheong via Ipe-discuss 
> <ipe-discuss at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:
> > 
> >  On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, at 15:29, Salvatore Modica via Ipe-discuss wrote:
> >  > on xubuntu 19.10
> >  > the result of "ipe -sheet presentation &" is 
> >  > 
> >  > /usr/share/ipe/7.2.13/lua/model.lua:485: fopen error: No such file or directory
> > 
> >  Looking at the code, I think this has not worked like this for a long time (even though it's shown like this in the manual).
> > 
> >  Instead, you currently need to provide the path to the stylesheet file. Check with 
> > 
> >  ipe -show-configuration
> > 
> >  what your style directories are.
> > 
> >  Then you can use the full path like this:
> > 
> >  ipe -sheet /usr/share/ipe/7.2.13./styles/presentation.isy <http://7.2.0.13/styles/presentation.isy>
> > 
> >  I will fix it so that "-sheet presentation" will work by searching the standard style directories.
> > 
> >  Cheers,
> >  Otfried
> > 
> > 
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