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