Re: Viewing postscript results from ipe drawing
David Topham <[email protected]>
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Thanks Nathaniel, I will try that process as well. On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Nathaniel Cunningham < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > You could probably eliminate one conversion by saving your Ipe drawing as > PDF, then using pdftops or similar to convert that to .eps. > > Typically saving your Ipe-produced PDF or EPS with any other program will > eliminate the embedded Ipe commands. > > -- Nathaniel > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:56 AM, David Topham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hmmmm...no replies...perhaps not an interesting topic? >> >> I did some more research and experiments and have one possible >> solution in case anyone else is interested some day... >> >> Generate eps file using ipe >> use pstoedit to convert eps to mp >> use mpost to generate ps >> >> This solves my original problem of how to view >> results of ipe drawing as simple postscript with >> no added binary information and no shortcut >> definitions! >> >> -Dave >> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:33 AM, David Topham <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I am a newbie to IPE and like what I see so far! I thought my >>> first few questions could be found by searching these archives, but don't >>> see how to do that? Is there a way besides browsing random "threads"? >>> I did try google searches and have read the manual... >>> >>> Question: >>> I saved my first drawing as EPS and then opened that in a editor. I see >>> lots of "def"s in there which make it pretty hard to see the raw postscript >>> produced. Is there any way to convert the eps that ipe produces into >>> something more like you might write manually using postscript directly? >>> >>> i.e. No unreadable binary and no defs for typical ops. >>> e.g. Here is a postscript file to draw a line: >>> >>> newpath >>> 144 72 moveto >>> 144 432 lineto >>> stroke >>> showpage >>> >>> but this is not what I see if I let IPE produce a line drawing... >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ipe-discuss mailing list >> Ipe-discuss-rGrgPyRx506NN8uzcEdRPYRWq/[email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/ipe-discuss >> >> > _______________________________________________ Ipe-discuss mailing list Ipe-discuss-rGrgPyRx506NN8uzcEdRPYRWq/[email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/ipe-discuss