Ipe manual

This manual is for Ipe 7.3.1.

It is also available as a book in epub format and pdf format.

For writing Ipe scripts and ipelets, see the Ipe library documentation.

Contents:

• Welcome to the wonderful world of Ipe!
• About Ipe files
  • Figures for Latex documents
  • Presentations
  • SVG files
  • Bitmaps
• General Concepts
  • Order of objects
  • The current selection
  • Moving and scaling objects
  • Stroke and fill colors
  • Pen, dash style, arrows, and tiling patterns
  • Transparency
  • Symbolic and absolute attributes
  • Zoom and pan
  • Groups
  • Layers
  • Mouse shortcuts
• Object types
  • Path objects
  • Text objects
  • Image objects
  • Group objects
  • Reference objects and symbols
• Snapping
  • Grid snapping
  • Context snapping
  • Custom grid snapping
  • Angular snapping
  • Interaction of the snapping modes
  • Examples
• Stylesheets
  • Make your own stylesheet!
  • Stylesheet theory
  • Symbols
  • Decorations
  • More about stylesheets
• Documents with text that is not in English
  • Pdflatex for latin and cyrillic scripts
  • Using Xetex
  • Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
  • Right-to-left writing: Farsi, Hebrew, and Arabic
• Presentations
  • Presentation stylesheets
  • Views
  • Bookmarks
  • Excluding a page from the presentation
  • Gradient patterns
  • Prettier bullet points
  • Filming from the canvas
• Advanced topics
  • Multiple figures in one Ipe document
  • Sharing Latex definitions with your Latex document
  • Writing ipelets
  • Troubleshooting the LaTeX-conversion
  • Customizing Ipe
  • Environment variables
  • Ipe on a USB-stick
  • Running Ipe under Wine on Linux
• The Ipe file format
  • The <ipe> element
  • The <page> element
  • Ipe object elements
  • The <ipestyle> element
• Using Ipe figures in Latex
  • Bounding boxes
  • Classic LaTeX and EPS
  • All figures in one Ipe document
• The command line programs
  • Ipe
  • Ipetoipe: converting Ipe file formats
  • Iperender: exporting to a bitmap, EPS, or SVG
  • Ipescript: running Ipe scripts
  • Ipeextract: extract XML stream from Ipe file
  • Ipe6upgrade: convert Ipe 6 files to Ipe 7 file format
  • Importing other formats
• Frequently asked questions
  • Where can I get support for Ipe?
  • MacOS says “the developer cannot be verified”
  • I want more/other choices for colors!
  • Attributes do not update
  • How do I use Ipe figures in beamer?
  • When Ipe refuses to open a PDF file you created with Ipe
  • Online Latex-compilation does not work
• History and acknowledgments
• Copyright