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ipe [ Qt options ] [ -sheet stylesheet ] filename

Ipe is a program that supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations.

This manual page only documents the command line options and environment variables. Full documentation for using Ipe can be found in HTML and PDF format; see below.

-sheet stylesheet

add the Ipe style sheet in the indicated file to all newly created Ipe documents. This option can be used more than once.

Ipe respects the following environment variables:

IPELATEXDIR

the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex.

IPEFONTMAP

the complete path of the font map, describing where Ipe can find the 14 standard PDF fonts.

IPEANCIENTPDFTEX

set this variable to use Pdftex versions older than 1.40.

IPELETPATH a list of directories, separated by semicolons,

containing ipelets. You can write a single underscore for the system-wide ipelet directory. If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide ipelet directory, plus ~/.ipe/ipelets on Unix, plus ~/Library/Ipe/Ipelets on OS X.

EDITOR

external editor to use for editing text objects.

IPESTYLES a list of directories, separated by semicolons, where

Ipe looks for stylesheets. You can write a single underscore for the system-wide stylesheet directory. If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide stylesheet directory, plus ~/.ipe/styles on Unix, plus ~/Library/Ipe/Styles on OS X.

IPEDEBUG

set this to 1 for debugging output.

IPEDOCDIR

the directory containing the Ipe documentation.

IPEICONDIR directory containing icons for the Ipe user

interface.

IPELUAPATH

path for searching for Ipe Lua code.

Otfried Cheong

Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/bugzilla.html

Ipe is documented fully in The Ipe Manual, which is available online at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual.html .