[Ipe-discuss] "Handout mode" for presentation PDFS?

[Jacob Barandes]

Thanks! I'm not super familiar with Lua programming. Is there any way I
could persuade you to turn this command-line procedure into an Ipelet?
Presumably it would have the label "Export to a flattened PDF", with
description like "Exports the IPE drawing or presentation to a PDF file
that includes only marked pages and views, defaulting to the last view on
each page if no views are marked." Then it could simply open a file dialog
box to save a PDF using the markedview option.

Jacob

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:01 AM Otfried Cheong via Ipe-discuss <
ipe-discuss at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, at 23:07, Jacob Barandes wrote:
> > This is excellent. It works great. Thanks to you both.
> >
> > Just a small correction, Otfried – in your command-line statement, I
> > think you meant to use a .ipe extension on the first file:
> >
> > ipetoipe -pdf -markedview presentation.ipe handouts.pdf
>
> Well, that would depend how you store your presentation in the first
> place.  I always use PDF format, so for me "presentation.pdf" would have
> been correct.
>
> Cheers,
>   Otfried
>
> ps. Has anyone used that ipeweed script recently?  You would need a setup
> where the libipelua library is actually installed in such a way that the
> lua interpreter can find it under the name "ipe" - this certainly does not
> happen automatically.
>
> I would rather run this as an Ipe script, using "ipescript ipeweed infile
> outfile".  To do that, the script needs to be saved as "ipeweed.lua" in
> (e.g.) ~/.ipe/scripts, and the first five lines need to be replaced by
> ```
> local inname = argv[1]
> local outname = argv[2]
> ```
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