[Tex/LaTex] Getting IPE LaTeX text labels working

ipe

IPE won't save my file as an .eps whenever I try to insert any text labels.

Here's what I have inserted as the preamble:

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}

Whenever I try to save, I get the following error:

Something is wrong with the PDF file generated by Pdflatex. Please consult the stderr output to identify the problem.

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

I'm working on a mac if that's relevant.

Best Answer

In TeXLive 2010, and probably other TeX distribution released at that time, the default PDF compression changed, so that Ipe was no longer able to read the PDF files generated by LaTeX.

Ipe version 7.0.11 fixed that problem. Upgrading to a newer version of Ipe should help.

If for some reason you do not want to (or cannot) upgrade, you can insert \pdfobjcompresslevel0 into the Ipe document preamble ("Edit" -> "Document Properties" and change "Latex preamble"). That will make LaTeX use old pdf compression scheme.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Latex Tables in ipe

I was copying and pasting the tex from a paper, which included \table{} which pdflatex complained about, saying it's not in an outer par environment. By just using tabular, ipe was happy to include it, after I cleaned up some other issues that the latex code also had.

\begin{tabular}{|l l|l|l|} 
\hline 
Query Type  &                 &  Query Time         & Space   \\ \hline
Orthogonal: &   Standard  & $O(\log^{d-1} n)$ & $O(n \log^{d-1} n)$     \\  
    &  SD fixed $m$                  & $O(m \cdot \log ^d n)$     &  $O(m \cdot n \log^{d-1} n)$     \\
    &  SD variable $m$               & $O(m \cdot \log ^d n)$     &  $O(n \log ^d n)$       \\ 
    &  SD size est.                  & $O(\log ^{d+1} n \log U)$  & $O(n \log^{d} n \log U)$         \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

[Tex/LaTex] Setting the IPE text editor default size, or use external editor

I was able to solve the problem of the editor size.

In my home directory in .ipe/ipelets/customize.lua I added the line

prefs.editor_size = { 1000, 600 }

Thanks, Marc Glisse for pointing out the solution.

I still was not able to launch the external editor correctly.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Latex Tables in ipe

[Tex/LaTex] Setting the IPE text editor default size, or use external editor

Related Question