decorator

decorator

With the decorator ipelet, you can decorate things by surrounding them with a box-like object, e.g., boxes with round corners. The ipelet is flexible in the sense that you can define your own decorator objects. The example file decorator.ipe illustrates the usage.

Usage

Run Ipelets -> Decorator -> decorate to decorate the currently selected objects. For that to work, there must be decorator objects (symbols with prefix "deco/") defined in your stylesheet (see the example above).

Creating Decorator Objects

To create your own decorator object, execute the following steps.

1. Create a rectangle, lets call it R.
2. Create path objects, that decorate R (usually some kind of box around R). You can use multiple objects for the decoration.
3. Make sure that R is the front most object (select R and press Ctrl + F).
4. Group R together with the decoration (select R and the decoration and press Ctrl + G).
5. Run Ipelets -> Decorator -> create deco-object.

Note that Ipelets->Decorator->create deco-object only slightly extends Ipelets->Symbols->create symbol (it checks whether the selected object can be used as decorator object and it automatically adds the prefix deco/).

Notes

Since Ipe 7.2.5, Ipe itself has a similar feature. So you probably also want to check that out.