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

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.

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.

AUTHOR

       Otfried Cheong

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