IPE(1)

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 .