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Object types
Ipe currently supports twelve different types of geometric objects,
namely (poly)lines, polygons, splines, splinegons, circles (which
includes ellipses), circular arcs, rectangles, marks, text objects,
minipage objects, bitmaps and group objects. The first ten of these
can be created directly by clicking the left mouse button somewhere on
the canvas, when the corresponding object type is selected. Group
objects are created using the group function in the
struc menu. Bitmaps can only be imported from other files or
from Iums. Some of the object types have
variants. In this chapter we consider the different object types one
by one.