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.TH IPE 1 "June 28, 2004"
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.SH NAME
ipe \- drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or PS formats
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ipe
[ \fIQt options\fP ] [ -debug ] [ -sheet \fIstylesheet\fP ] 
[ -geom \fIWxH+X+Y\fP ] \fIfilename\fP

.SH DESCRIPTION

Ipe is a program that supports making small figures for inclusion into
LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations.

.PP
This manual page only documents the command line options and
environment variables.  Full documentation for using Ipe can be found
in HTML and PDF format; see below.

.TP
\fB\-sheet\fR \fIstylesheet\fP
add the Ipe style sheet in the indicated file to all newly created Ipe
documents.
.TP
\fB\-geom\fR \fIWxH+X+Y\fP
display the first Ipe window with the given position and size.
.TP
\fB\-debug\fR
display debug output on stderr.

.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Ipe respects the following environment variables:

.TP
\fBIPELATEXDIR\fP
the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex.

.TP
\fBIPEPDFLATEX\fP
the name of the Pdflatex executable.  If Pdflatex is on your path, the
value 
.I "pdflatex"
is sufficient.

.TP
\fBIPEBINDIR\fP
the directory containing the
.I "ipe5toxml"
program (it is run by Ipe to open Ipe 5 documents).

.TP
\fBIPEDOCDIR\fP
the directory containing the Ipe documentation.

.TP
\fBIPELANGDIR\fP
the directory containing user interface localization for Ipe. (No such
localization exists yet.)

.TP
\fBIPEFONTMAP\fP
the complete path of the font map, describing where Ipe can find the
14 standard PDF fonts.

.TP
\fBIPEBROWSER\fP
the name of the HTML browser to be used to display the Ipe on-line
manual. (If Ipe was linked with KDE, this value is not used.)

.TP
\fBIPELETPATH\fP
a list of directories where Ipe looks for ipelets. Directories are
separated by ":" on Unix, and by ";" on Windows.

.TP
\fBTEXINPUTS\fP
when running Pdflatex, Ipe prepends both the current directory (where
Ipe was started) as the directory containing the current document to
the \fBTEXINPUTS\fP environment variable.

.SH AUTHOR
Otfried Cheong

.SH REPORTING BUGS
.ad l
Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at
.I "http://ipe.compgeom.org/bugzilla.html"

.SH SEE ALSO
.ad l
Ipe is documented fully in
.IR "The Ipe Manual" ,
which can be found in \fI/usr/share/doc/ipe/manual.html\fP or in pdf format
in \fI/usr/share/doc/ipe/manual.pdf\fP.