[Ipe-discuss] ipetoipe markedview causing unwanted visual artefacts

[Wang, Zhengdao [E CPE]]

Can the width of minipages be made adaptive so that when the content
changes, its width is automatically adjusted? This way, the width does
not need to be adjusted manually when it is too narrow.

Perhaps a flag can be added, so that if flagged, then the width is not
automatically changed - in case the cropping behavior is actually
desirable?

This will also maintain backward compatability to file versions before
say 7.1.10 where the cropping was not applied.

Just a thought - as the cropping can come as a surprise. 

Zhengdao

On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 22:09 +0200, Otfried Cheong via Ipe-discuss
wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, at 16:57, Raphael Clifford via Ipe-discuss
> wrote:
> > I am using 
> > 
> > ipetoipe -pdf -markedview prob-recap.pdf out.pdf
> > 
> > to extract the keyframes from my ipe slides. This is to make a
> > version 
> > with many fewer transitions.  However when I do this it seems to
> > cause 
> > visual artefacts that look either like a bug or a mistake in what I
> > am 
> > doing.
> 
> If you open your file in Ipe and look at page 6, you will see that
> the expression for the expectation is in a minipage whose width is
> set very small.   A minipage object must be wide enough for the text
> contents to show correctly.
> 
> So what happens is that in the -markedviews export the formula is
> clipped to the width of the box.   I'm surprised that this clipping
> does not also happen in the full PDF - I would have to dig into the
> produced PDF to figure out why that is (it might also depend on the
> PDF viewer).
> 
> In any case, if you make those minipages wider, it should work as
> expected.
> 
> Cheers,
> Otfried
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