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<title>Ipe Manual -- 15 If you have used Ipe 5 before...</title>
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<p>Perhaps you are worried now that you cannot continue to use your
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megabytes worth of existing Ipe figures with Ipe 6. Fear not. Ipe 6
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comes with a tool "ipe5toxml" that converts figures created with
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Ipe 5 and earlier to Ipe 6's <a href="manual_35.html">XML format</a>. In fact, you
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can just select an old Ipe file from the Ipe user interface, and Ipe
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will run the tool for you automatically. (There was no question that
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Ipe 6 would have to be able to communicate in XML, of course.)
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<p>Other than the file format, there aren't really that many changes to
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Ipe's functionality. I've added style sheets and layers, because
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René van Oostrum says that no self-respecting drawing program can do
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without. I've added page views, which allow you to incrementally
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build up a page in a PDF presentation, because Christian Knauer wants
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to make PowerPoint-like presentations in Ipe. And obviously it's now
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possible to use Korean, Chinese, and Japanese in figures.
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Ipe 5 and earlier to Ipe 6's <a href="manual_35.html">XML format</a>. (There was
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no question that Ipe 6 would have to be able to communicate in XML, of
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<p>Other than the file format, there weren't really that many changes to
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Ipe's functionality between Ipe 5.0 and Ipe 6.0 preview 3. I've added
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style sheets and layers, because René van Oostrum says that no
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self-respecting drawing program can do without. I've added page
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views, which allow you to incrementally build up a page in a PDF
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presentation, because Christian Knauer wants to make PowerPoint-like
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presentations in Ipe. And obviously it's now possible to use Korean,
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Chinese, and Japanese in figures.
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<p>I've also revised the interface to ipelets (which used to be called
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"Iums" in the good old times when people still thought that
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