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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Okay. Changing the style really <i>is</i> the way to go.<i></i><i></i></p>
<p>Thanks.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/02/2022 19:47, Soeren Nickel via
Ipe-discuss wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:37b80e22-e158-55fd-b3c5-00c42e94c92c@ac.tuwien.ac.at">Hi
Lluís,
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<br>
While I am not sure if an ipelet could be written, which
dynamically enlarges the drawing area whenever something isplaced
outside of the canvas or the user scrolls beyond the canvas, I
think this would be an unnecessarily complicated solution for this
problem. I attached a .isy stylefile, which defines the canvas to
be excessively enormous (500000 x 500000) far exceeding what ipe
can display at once in the viewer by default (something which you
can change in the prefs.lua), making it for most common
applications "infinite". And to be honest I find it quite
disorienting, so I also attached a more reasonable 5000 x 5000.
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Simply hit Ctrl + Shift + s, add the .isy file and hit Ok. You can
obviously also manually change the numbers in the style file and
create any size and aspect ratio canvas you want.
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Best,
<br>
Soeren
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On 04.02.22 15:44, Lluís Alemany Puig via Ipe-discuss wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear all,
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Recently, I've been using IPE to make diagrams to help me carry
out my research in my thesis. These diagrams tend to be large
and more often than not I can't put two of them next to each
other. And so, I eventually "run out" of space in the canvas
while most of it being empty. I just can't use the remaining
space because diagrams would overlap. I know I can use the gray
area, but I can't see clearly whatever is on it.
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So I was thinking to enlarge the canvas using the <layout>
field in a personal stylesheet. Similar to presentation.isy.
However, I can foresee the same problem happening again (and
then having to enlarge the canvas, and repeat).
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Does IPE have an option to make the canvas "infinite"?
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Thank you all,
<br>
<br>
Lluís.
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