Others ⇒ IPE error with itemize and pdfLaTeX

[sparx]

Hi!

I recently found IPE and wanted to try it out as OpenOffice.org presentation didn't run to smoothly on my machine. I wanted to make an itemized list and ran in to some problems of it not compiling properly.
I hope someone can give me some pointers!

It seems that IPE can do other latex code, e.g. equations, but for some reason not itemized list.
If i run the file directly with pdfLaTeX it gives the same errors.
Unfortunately I don't understand the error.
However there seems to be some error with the font OMS/cmss/m/n.
If that is the case where can i find these fonts on my system?

the tex file auto generated by IPE:

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\pdfcompresslevel0
\nonstopmode
\ifnum\the\pdftexversion<140\errmessage{Pdftex is too old. Set IPEANCIENTPDFTEX environment variable!}\fi
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\PageTitle}[1]{#1}
\newdimen\ipefs
\newcommand{\ipesymbol}[4]{\ipefs 1ex\pdfliteral{(#1) (\the\ipefs) (#2) (#3) (#4) sym}}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{red}{rgb}{1,0,0}
\definecolor{green}{rgb}{0,1,0}
\definecolor{blue}{rgb}{0,0,1}
\definecolor{yellow}{rgb}{1,1,0}
\definecolor{orange}{rgb}{1,0.647,0}
\definecolor{gold}{rgb}{1,0.843,0}
\definecolor{purple}{rgb}{0.627,0.125,0.941}
\definecolor{gray}{gray}{0.745}
\definecolor{brown}{rgb}{0.647,0.165,0.165}
\definecolor{navy}{rgb}{0,0,0.502}
\definecolor{pink}{rgb}{1,0.753,0.796}
\definecolor{seagreen}{rgb}{0.18,0.545,0.341}
\definecolor{turquoise}{rgb}{0.251,0.878,0.816}
\definecolor{violet}{rgb}{0.933,0.51,0.933}
\definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0,0,0.545}
\definecolor{darkcyan}{rgb}{0,0.545,0.545}
\definecolor{darkgray}{gray}{0.663}
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.392,0}
\definecolor{darkmagenta}{rgb}{0.545,0,0.545}
\definecolor{darkorange}{rgb}{1,0.549,0}
\definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0.545,0,0}
\definecolor{lightblue}{rgb}{0.678,0.847,0.902}
\definecolor{lightcyan}{rgb}{0.878,1,1}
\definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.827}
\definecolor{lightgreen}{rgb}{0.565,0.933,0.565}
\definecolor{lightyellow}{rgb}{1,1,0.878}
\definecolor{title}{rgb}{0.4,0,0.4}
\definecolor{black}{gray}{0}
\definecolor{white}{gray}{1}
\def\ipesetcolor{\pdfcolorstack0 push{0 0 0 0 k 0 0 0 0 K}}
\def\iperesetcolor{\pdfcolorstack0 pop}
 
 
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Run LaTeX here

the log file:

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) (format=pdflatex 2011.1.31)  1 APR 2011 19:03
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**text.tex
(./text.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)
\ipefs=\dimen103
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
Package: color 2005/11/14 v1.0j Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)
(/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg
File: color.cfg 2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
)
Package color Info: Driver file: pdftex.def on input line 130.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def
File: pdftex.def 2010/03/12 v0.04p Graphics/color for pdfTeX
\Gread@gobject=\count87
))
 
 
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any help appreciated.
Thanks!

[localghost]

It could help to know what you are after. Your code compiles smoothly after commenting the list related lines. But the result is exactly an empty page. So a visual example of the desired result could be very helpful.

In general lists like the itemize environment need a box where paragraphs are allowed, that is to say a \parbox or a minipage. And inside a picture environment objects can only be placed by the \put command.

You can create a presentation much easier directly with LaTeX by using the beamer or powerdot class. Perhaps these are useful alternatives to your previous efforts.


Thorsten

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Thanks for the quick reply!
Surrounding the itemize with a parabox or minipage did solve the problem!

What I'm after right now is just a feel for what ipe can do. That's when I came across this "problem" of environments. What I aimed for was the typical presentation layout with a list of topics/chapters with either a single or double column style for the page.

There seems to be at lest two different textbox options in ipe, one "label" and one "text box". In the "text box", the minipage environment is not needed, while in the label one, it is.

included for reference, functioning tex code:

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\pdfcompresslevel0
\nonstopmode
\ifnum\the\pdftexversion<140\errmessage{Pdftex is too old. Set IPEANCIENTPDFTEX environment variable!}\fi
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\PageTitle}[1]{#1}
\newdimen\ipefs
\newcommand{\ipesymbol}[4]{\ipefs 1ex\pdfliteral{(#1) (\the\ipefs) (#2) (#3) (#4) sym}}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{red}{rgb}{1,0,0}
\definecolor{green}{rgb}{0,1,0}
\definecolor{blue}{rgb}{0,0,1}
\definecolor{yellow}{rgb}{1,1,0}
\definecolor{orange}{rgb}{1,0.647,0}
\definecolor{gold}{rgb}{1,0.843,0}
\definecolor{purple}{rgb}{0.627,0.125,0.941}
\definecolor{gray}{gray}{0.745}
\definecolor{brown}{rgb}{0.647,0.165,0.165}
\definecolor{navy}{rgb}{0,0,0.502}
\definecolor{pink}{rgb}{1,0.753,0.796}
\definecolor{seagreen}{rgb}{0.18,0.545,0.341}
\definecolor{turquoise}{rgb}{0.251,0.878,0.816}
\definecolor{violet}{rgb}{0.933,0.51,0.933}
\definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0,0,0.545}
\definecolor{darkcyan}{rgb}{0,0.545,0.545}
\definecolor{darkgray}{gray}{0.663}
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.392,0}
\definecolor{darkmagenta}{rgb}{0.545,0,0.545}
\definecolor{darkorange}{rgb}{1,0.549,0}
\definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0.545,0,0}
\definecolor{lightblue}{rgb}{0.678,0.847,0.902}
\definecolor{lightcyan}{rgb}{0.878,1,1}
\definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.827}
\definecolor{lightgreen}{rgb}{0.565,0.933,0.565}
\definecolor{lightyellow}{rgb}{1,1,0.878}
\definecolor{title}{rgb}{0.4,0,0.4}
\definecolor{black}{gray}{0}
\definecolor{white}{gray}{1}
\def\ipesetcolor{\pdfcolorstack0 push{0 0 0 0 k 0 0 0 0 K}}
\def\iperesetcolor{\pdfcolorstack0 pop}
 
 
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Run LaTeX here

I have some limited experience with beamer and it might be an idea to return to it. Thanks for the tip!

And thanks for the help!