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
    • Decorations
    • Editing text in group
    • Recursive group edit
    • Links to websites, videos, and other pages
      • Websites
      • Launching media
      • Navigating inside the document
      • Standard actions
  • 4.5 Reference objects and symbols
• 5 Snapping
  • 5.1 Grid snapping
  • 5.2 Context snapping
  • 5.3 Custom grid snapping
  • 5.4 Angular snapping
  • 5.5 Interaction of the snapping modes
  • 5.6 Examples
    • Example 1:
    • Example 2:
    • Example 3:
    • Example 4:
    • Example 5:
    • Example 6:
• 6 Stylesheets
  • 6.1 Make your own stylesheet!
  • 6.2 Stylesheet theory
  • 6.3 Symbols
  • 6.4 Decorations
  • 6.5 More about stylesheets
    • Paper size
    • Latex preamble.
• 7 Documents with text that is not in English
  • 7.1 Pdflatex for latin and cyrillic scripts
  • 7.2 Using Xetex
  • 7.3 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
  • 7.4 Right-to-left writing: Farsi, Hebrew, and Arabic
    • 7.4.1 Persian
    • 7.4.2 Hebrew
    • 7.4.3 Arabic
• 8 Presentations
  • 8.1 Presentation stylesheets
  • 8.2 Views
    • 8.2.1 Example
    • 8.2.2 Text boxes
    • 8.2.3 Changing symbolic values inside a view
    • 8.2.4 Transforming objects inside a view
    • 8.2.5 Controlling the PDF bounding box of a view
  • 8.3 Bookmarks
  • 8.4 Excluding a page from the presentation
  • 8.5 Gradient patterns
  • 8.6 Prettier bullet points
  • 8.7 Filming from the canvas
• 9 Advanced topics
  • 9.1 Multiple figures in one Ipe document
  • 9.2 Sharing Latex definitions with your Latex document
  • 9.3 Writing ipelets
  • 9.4 Troubleshooting the LaTeX-conversion
  • 9.5 Customizing Ipe
  • 9.6 Environment variables
    • ipe.conf
  • 9.7 Ipe on a USB-stick
  • 9.8 Running Ipe under Wine on Linux
  • 9.9 Using cygwin latex on Windows
• 10 The Ipe file format
  • 10.1 The <ipe> element
    • Attributes
    • Contents
    • 10.1.1 The <info> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.1.2 The <preamble> element
    • 10.1.3 The <bitmap> element
      • Attributes
  • 10.2 The <page> element
    • Attributes
    • Contents
    • 10.2.1 The <notes> element
    • 10.2.2 The <layer> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.2.3 The <view> element
      • Attributes
  • 10.3 Ipe object elements
    • Common attributes
    • Color attribute values
    • Path construction operators
    • 10.3.1 The <group> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.3.2 The <image> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.3.3 The <use> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.3.4 The <text> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.3.5 The <path> element
      • Attributes
  • 10.4 The <ipestyle> element
    • Attributes
    • 10.4.1 The <symbol> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.2 The <preamble> element
    • 10.4.3 The <textstyle> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.4 The <layout> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.5 The <titlestyle> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.6 The <pagenumberstyle> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.7 The <textpad> element
    • 10.4.8 The <pathstyle> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.9 The <opacity> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.10 The <gradient> element
      • Attributes of <gradient>
      • Attributes of <stop>
    • 10.4.11 The <tiling> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.12 The <effect> element
      • Attributes
    • 10.4.13 Other style definition elements
      • Common attributes
• 11 Using Ipe figures in Latex
• 12 The command line programs
  • 12.1 Ipe
  • 12.2 Ipetoipe: converting Ipe file formats
  • 12.3 Iperender: exporting to a bitmap, EPS, or SVG
  • 12.4 Ipeextract: extract XML stream from Ipe file
  • 12.5 Ipe6upgrade: convert Ipe 6 files to Ipe 7 file format
  • 12.6 Ipescript: running Ipe scripts
  • 12.7 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
• 13 History and acknowledgments
• 14 Copyright
• Contents
• Footnotes