Contents
Contents
1 Introduction
2 About Ipe files
Figures for Latex documents.
Presentations.
SVG files.
Bitmaps.
3 General Concepts
3.1 Order of objects
3.2 The current selection
3.3 Moving and scaling objects
3.4 Stroke and fill colors
3.5 Pen, dash style, arrows, and tiling patterns
3.6 Transparency
3.7 Symbolic and absolute attributes
3.8 Zoom and pan
3.9 Groups
3.10 Layers
3.11 Mouse shortcuts
4 Object types
4.1 Path objects
4.2 Text objects
4.3 Image objects
4.4 Group objects
Clipping
External links
Decorations
Editing text in group
Recursive group edit
4.5 Reference objects and symbols
5 Snapping
5.1 Grid snapping
5.2 Context snapping
5.3 Angular snapping
5.4 Interaction of the snapping modes
5.5 Examples
Example 1:
Example 2:
Example 3:
Example 4:
Example 5:
Example 6:
6 Stylesheets
Symbols.
Latex preamble.
Decorations.
7 Presentations
7.1 Presentation stylesheets
7.2 Views
7.3 Bookmarks
7.4 Gradient patterns
7.5 Ipe symbols used from text objects
8 Advanced topics
8.1 Sharing Latex definitions with your Latex document
8.2 Writing ipelets
8.3 Troubleshooting the LaTeX-conversion
8.4 Unicode text
8.5 Customizing Ipe
8.6 Environment variables
ipe.conf
8.7 Ipe on a USB-stick
8.8 Running Ipe under Wine on Linux
8.9 Using cygwin latex on Windows
9 The Ipe file format
9.1 The
<ipe>
element
Attributes
Contents
9.1.1 The
<info>
element
Attributes
9.1.2 The
<preamble>
element
9.1.3 The
<bitmap>
element
Attributes
9.2 The
<page>
element
Attributes
Contents
9.2.1 The
<notes>
element
9.2.2 The
<layer>
element
Attributes
9.2.3 The
<view>
element
Attributes
9.3 Ipe object elements
Common attributes
Color attribute values
Path construction operators
9.3.1 The
<group>
element
Attributes
9.3.2 The
<image>
element
Attributes
9.3.3 The
<use>
element
Attributes
9.3.4 The
<text>
element
Attributes
9.3.5 The
<path>
element
Attributes
9.4 The
<ipestyle>
element
Attributes
9.4.1 The
<symbol>
element
Attributes
9.4.2 The
<preamble>
element
9.4.3 The
<textstyle>
element
Attributes
9.4.4 The
<layout>
element
Attributes
9.4.5 The
<titlestyle>
element
Attributes
9.4.6 The
<pagenumberstyle>
element
Attributes
9.4.7 The
<textpad>
element
9.4.8 The
<pathstyle>
element
Attributes
9.4.9 The
<opacity>
element
Attributes
9.4.10 The
<gradient>
element
Attributes of
<gradient>
Attributes of
<stop>
9.4.11 The
<tiling>
element
Attributes
9.4.12 The
<effect>
element
Attributes
9.4.13 Other style definition elements
Common attributes
10 Using Ipe figures in Latex
11 The command line programs
11.1 Ipe
11.2 Ipetoipe: converting Ipe file formats
11.3 Iperender: exporting to a bitmap, EPS, or SVG
11.4 Ipeextract: extract XML stream from Ipe file
11.5 Ipe6upgrade: convert Ipe 6 files to Ipe 7 file format
11.6 Ipescript: running Ipe scripts
11.7 Importing other formats
Svgtoipe: Importing SVG figures
Pdftoipe: Importing Postscript and PDF
Ipe5toxml: convert Ipe 5 files to Ipe 6 file format
Figtoipe: Importing FIG figures
12 History and acknowledgments
13 Copyright
Contents
Footnotes