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Bitmaps

Ipe has a bitmap object type. However, the only way to get a bitmap into an Ipe drawing is by reading it from an Ipe file or by getting it from some Ipe User Macro. Once in a drawing, you can scale and stretch a bitmap, but it will always stay axis-parallel. This object type is mostly supported so that you can read in some scanned drawing and draw on top of it within Ipe. This is useful if you have a drawing on paper and want to make an Ipe version of it.

Note that not all versions of Ipe are capable to show the bitmap. If Ipe was not able to allocate enough colors to show the bitmap, it will simply show a stippled rectangle.

  You might be tempted to use the bitmap object type to include some logo or the like into your drawings or slides. However, for that purpose you should consider whether it is not wiser to use the LaTeX epsf.sty package. If you make a text object with contents

\epsfbox{logo.eps}
then the bitmap (assumed in encapsulated Postscript format) will be included only when printing, keeping your Ipe files small. And if you have Latex Boxes on, then you can even see a real-size bounding box for the included file. Just don't forget to add \usepackage{epsf} to your LaTeX preamble.

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