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NAME

       ipe - drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS formats

SYNOPSIS

       ipe [ Qt options ] [ -sheet stylesheet ] filename

DESCRIPTION

       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.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       Ipe respects the following environment variables:

       IPELATEXDIR
              the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex.

       IPELATEXPATH
              the directory containing pdflatex and xelatex.  If not set, they are searched for on the path.

       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.

AUTHOR

       Otfried Cheong

REPORTING BUGS

       Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at http://ipe.otfried.org/bugzilla.html

SEE ALSO

       Ipe is documented fully in The Ipe Manual, which is available online at
       http://ipe.otfried.org/manual/manual.html .

                                                September 1, 2011                                         IPE(1)