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diff --git a/graphics/ipe/pkg-descr b/graphics/ipe/pkg-descr index 428ce151e310..7e2689739b47 100644 --- a/graphics/ipe/pkg-descr +++ b/graphics/ipe/pkg-descr @@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ This is a port of Ipe, Otfried Cheong's Interactive Picture Editor. Ipe has a very nice integration of LaTeX text and PostScript drawings. There are a couple of gotchas that potential installers should be aware of -1) Unfortunately Ipe only works in 8 bit colour. As far as I know this is -a Motif limitation. Starting in higher colour depth will yield a core -dump. +1) Ipe needs a pseudocolor visual to work optimally. XFree86 +currently only provides this at 8 bit colour depth. If you run Ipe at +a higher colour depth, it reverts to "monochrome mode", which is not +nearly as nice. This falling back to monochrome mode is my +modification, so direct any complaints to me first. 2) The previewing features sensitive to which versions of teTeX and ghostscript are installed. They work with the versions listed in the Makefile, but |