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.TH IPE 1 "June 28, 2004"
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ipe \- drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or PS formats
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[ \fIQt options\fP ] [ -debug ] [ -sheet \fIstylesheet\fP ]
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[ -geom \fIWxH+X+Y\fP ] \fIfilename\fP
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Ipe is a program that supports making small figures for inclusion into
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LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations.
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This manual page only documents the command line options and
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environment variables. Full documentation for using Ipe can be found
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in HTML and PDF format; see below.
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\fB\-sheet\fR \fIstylesheet\fP
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add the Ipe style sheet in the indicated file to all newly created Ipe
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\fB\-geom\fR \fIWxH+X+Y\fP
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display the first Ipe window with the given position and size.
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display debug output on stderr.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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Ipe respects the following environment variables:
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the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex.
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the name of the Pdflatex executable. If Pdflatex is on your path, the
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the directory containing the
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program (it is run by Ipe to open Ipe 5 documents).
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the directory containing the Ipe documentation.
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the directory containing user interface localization for Ipe. (No such
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localization exists yet.)
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the complete path of the font map, describing where Ipe can find the
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14 standard PDF fonts.
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the name of the HTML browser to be used to display the Ipe on-line
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manual. (If Ipe was linked with KDE, this value is not used.)
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a list of directories where Ipe looks for ipelets. Directories are
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separated by ":" on Unix, and by ";" on Windows.
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when running Pdflatex, Ipe prepends both the current directory (where
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Ipe was started) as the directory containing the current document to
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the \fBTEXINPUTS\fP environment variable.
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Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at
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.I "http://ipe.compgeom.org/bugzilla.html"
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Ipe is documented fully in
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.IR "The Ipe Manual" ,
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which can be found in \fI/usr/share/doc/ipe/manual.html\fP or in pdf format
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in \fI/usr/share/doc/ipe/manual.pdf\fP.