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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Ipe!

               ... where making pictures is as easy as $\pi$ ...
Ipe is a drawing editor that generates drawings in the Integrated Picture Environment format, which combines LaTeX text information with Postscript image information, and stores both types of information in a single file.

If you don't find the answer to your question here, you can also have a look at the Ipe Frequently Asked Questions.

Note that Ipe is now distributed with only a small set of simple Ipe user macros. More Ipe user macros can be found at the Ipe user macro home page.

This is the documentation for Ipe Version 5.0, from August 1994.

  • Copyright
  • General Concepts
  • Object types
  • Snapping
  • The menus
  • Previewing and printing
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Ipe and LaTeX
  • Preparing slides with Ipe
  • Ipe user macros
  • Customizing Ipe
  • Ipe command line options
  • The Ipe file format
  • Interfacing with Ipe
  • Bugs
  • Acknowledgments
  • Change Log
  • Index
  • And now a full list of everything in this manual.

  • Copyright
  • General Concepts
  • Ipe and Mipe modes
  • Order of objects
  • The different object types
  • The current selection
  • Moving and scaling objects
  • Stroke and fill colors
  • Line style, line width, and arrows
  • Zoom and pan
  • Object types
  • Polygonal objects
  • Spline objects
  • Text objects
  • Circle objects
  • Rectangle objects
  • Mark objects
  • Circular arcs
  • Bitmaps
  • Snapping
  • Grid snapping
  • Context snapping
  • Directional snapping
  • Interaction of the snapping modes
  • Examples
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  • The menus
  • The File menu
  • The structure menu
  • Undo
  • Cut, copy, and paste
  • Properties
  • The Align menu
  • The Page menu
  • The Misc menu
  • Previewing and printing
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Ipe and LaTeX
  • Preparing slides with Ipe
  • Ipe user macros
  • Ipe user macros distributed with Ipe
  • How Ipe calls a user macro
  • Writing Ipe user macros
  • Using iumio -- the C version
  • Using iumio -- the plageo version
  • Using the Transform class
  • Customizing Ipe
  • The configuration panel
  • X Resources
  • Ipe command line options
  • The Ipe file format
  • Interfacing with Ipe
  • Preparing input for Ipe
  • The interface files between Ipe and Ipe user macros
  • The different entries in an Ipe format file
  • Polygonal Objects
  • Spline Objects
  • Text Objects
  • Circle Objects
  • Arc Objects
  • Mark Objects
  • Bitmap Objects
  • Segments Objects
  • Creating Ipe files from PLAGEO
  • Bugs
  • Acknowledgments
  • Change Log
  • Index

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