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<h2>12.1 Command line options</h2>
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<h4><a name="id1">Ipe command line options</a></h4>
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<p>Ipe supports the following command line options:
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<dl><dt><b><code>-sheet</code> <em>style sheet name</em></b><dd>
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Adds the designated style sheet to any newly created documents.
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<dt><b><code>-show-configuration</code></b><dd>
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With this option, Ipe will display the current configuration options
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on stdout, and terminate.
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In addition, you can specify the name of an Ipe file to open on the
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command line. Ipe also understands all options supported by the
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<a href="http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.5/qapplication.html#QApplication">Qt
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<h4><a name="id2">Ipeview: a minimal Ipe viewer</a></h4>
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<p>Ipeview allows you to quickly view an Ipe file without starting the
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<h4><a name="id3">Ipetoipe: converting Ipe file formats</a></h4>
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<p>The auxiliary program <em>ipetoipe</em> converts between the different
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ipetoipe ( -xml | -pdf | -eps ) { <options> } infile [ outfile ]
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The first argument determines the format of the output file. If no
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output filename is provided, Ipe will try to guess it by appending one
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of the extensions "ipe", "pdf", or "eps" to the input file's
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<p>For example, the command line syntax
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ipetoipe -pdf figure1.eps
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converts <i>figure1.eps</i> to <i>figure1.pdf</i>.
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<p>Ipetoipe understands the following options:
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<dl><dt><b><code>-export</code></b><dd> No Ipe markup is included in the resulting
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output file. Ipe will not be able to open a file created that way,
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so make sure you keep your original!
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<dt><b><code>-lastview</code></b><dd> (PDF only) <br />Only the last view of each Ipe
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page will be created in PDF format. This is often convenient to
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make handouts for slides.
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<dt><b><code>-pages</code> from-to</b><dd> (PDF only) <br />Restrict exporting to PDF to this page range. This implies the
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<code>-export</code> option.
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<dt><b><code>-view</code> page-view</b><dd> Only export this single view from the document. This implies
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the <code>-export</code> option.
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<dt><b><code>-runlatex</code></b><dd>
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Run Latex even for XML output. This has the effect of including
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the dimensions of each text object in the XML file.
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<dt><b><code>-nocolor</code></b><dd>
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Do not use any color commands in Postscript output. This is
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useful if you are preparing a manuscript for publication where
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the publisher checks that the figures are grayscale only. Note
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that this option doesn't actually verify that the figure con-
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tains no color (a figure using color processed with this option
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will cause a Postscript error when displayed).
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<dt><b><code>-nozip</code></b><dd>
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Do not compress streams in PDF or Postscript output.
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<dt><b><code>-styleupdate</code></b><dd> Update all style sheets in the document
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from external style sheet files in the current directory. The
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external file's name must match the name of the style sheet and have
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<h4><a name="id4">Iperender: converting to a bitmap or SVG art</a></h4>
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<p>The program <em>iperender</em> converts a page of the document to a
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bitmap in PNG format or to scalable vector graphics in SVG format.
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(Of course the result contains no Ipe markup, so make sure you keep
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your original.) For instance, the following command line
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iperender -png -page 3 -resolution 150 presentation.pdf pres3.png
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converts page 3 of the Ipe document <code>presentation.pdf</code> to a
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bitmap, with resolution <i>150</i> pixels per inch.
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<h4><a name="id5">Ipeextract: extract XML stream from Ipe PDF or EPS file</a></h4>
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<p>Ipeextract extracts the XML stream from a PDF or EPS file and saves it
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in a file. It will work even if Ipe cannot actually parse the file,
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so you can use this tool to debug problems where Ipe fails to open
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ipeextract infile [ outfile ]
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If not provided, the outfile is guessed by appending "xml" to the
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<h4><a name="id6">Ipe6upgrade: convert Ipe 6 files to Ipe 7 file format</a></h4>
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<p>Ipe6upgrade takes as input a file created by any version of Ipe 6, and
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saves in the format of Ipe 7.0.0.
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ipe6upgrade infile [ outfile ]
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If not provided, the outfile is guessed by adding the extension
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"ipe" to the infile's basename.
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<h4><a name="id7">Svgtoipe: Importing SVG figures</a></h4>
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<p>The auxiliary program <em>svgtoipe</em> converts an SVG figure to Ipe
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format. It cannot handle all SVG features (many SVG features are not
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supported by Ipe anyway), but it works for gradients.
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<p><em>svgtoipe</em> is not part of the Ipe source distribution. You can
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download it separately.
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<h4><a name="id8">Pdftoipe: Importing Postscript and PDF</a></h4>
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<p>You can convert arbitrary Postscript or PDF files into Ipe documents,
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making them editable. The auxiliary program <em>pdftoipe</em> converts
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(pages from) a PDF file into an Ipe XML-file. (If your source is
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Postscript, you have to first convert it to PDF using Acrobat
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Distiller or <i>ps2pdf</i>.) Once converted to XML, the file can be
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opened from Ipe as usual.
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<p>The conversion process should handle any graphics in the PDF file
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fine, but doesn't do very well on text--Ipe's text model is just too
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<p><em>pdftoipe</em> is not part of the Ipe source distribution. You can
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download and build it separately.
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<h4><a name="id9">Ipe5toxml: convert Ipe 5 files to Ipe 6 file format</a></h4>
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<p>If you still have figures that were created with Ipe 5, you can use
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<em>ipe5toxml</em> to convert them to Ipe 6 format. You can then use
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<em>ipe6upgrade</em> to convert them to Ipe 7 format.
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<p><em>ipe5toxml</em> is not part of the Ipe distribution, but available as
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<h4><a name="id10">Figtoipe: Importing FIG figures</a></h4>
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<p>The auxiliary program <em>figtoipe</em> converts a figure in FIG format
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into an Ipe XML-file. This is useful if you used to make figures with
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Xfig before discovering Ipe, of if your co-authors made figures for
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your article with Xfig (converting them will have the added benefit of
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forcing your co-authors to learn to use Ipe). Finally, there are
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quite a number of programs that can export to FIG format, and
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<em>figtoipe</em> effectively turns that into the possibility of
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<p>However, <em>figtoipe</em> is not quite complete. The drawing models of
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FIG and Ipe are also somewhat different, which makes it impossible to
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properly render some FIG files in Ipe. Ipe does not support depth
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ordering independent of grouping, pattern fill, and Postscript fonts.
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You may therefore have to edit the file after conversion.
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<p><em>figtoipe</em> is not part of the Ipe distribution. You can download
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and build it separately. <em>figtoipe</em> is now maintained by
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Alexander Bürger.
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