IPE(1)

💖 IPE(1) — the drawing editor one 💖

okay bestie, listen up — this is the manual page for ipe, from the General Commands Manual section. It's the drawing editor for making figures in PDF or EPS formats. iconic behavior honestly ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ipe — drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS formats 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ipe [ Qt options ] [ -sheet stylesheet ] filename

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So ipe is a program that supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations. both?? she does both?? main character energy fr fr 👑

ngl this manual page only documents the command line options and environment variables. That's it. That's all it's giving. Full documentation for using Ipe can be found in HTML and PDF format — see below, bestie, I got you 🫶

• -sheet stylesheet — add the Ipe style sheet in the indicated file to all newly created Ipe documents. You can use this option more than once, so go off, stack as many as you want 💅✨

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

Ipe respects the following environment variables, periodt:

• IPELATEXDIR — the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex. 🧚
• IPELATEXPATH — the directory containing pdflatex and xelatex. If not set, they are searched for on the path. lowkey convenient 🍓
• IPELETPATH — a list of directories, separated by semicolons, containing ipelets. You can write a single underscore for the system-wide ipelet directory. If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide ipelet directory, plus ~/.ipe/ipelets on Unix, plus ~/Library/Ipe/Ipelets on OS X. 💜
• EDITOR — external editor to use for editing text objects. yes girl, pick your fighter 😭
• IPESTYLES — a list of directories, separated by semicolons, where Ipe looks for stylesheets. You can write a single underscore for the system-wide stylesheet directory. If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide stylesheet directory, plus ~/.ipe/styles on Unix, plus ~/Library/Ipe/Styles on OS X. 🌸
• IPEDEBUG — set this to 1 for debugging output. not me turning on debug mode at 2am 🙈
• IPEDOCDIR — the directory containing the Ipe documentation. 📚
• IPEICONDIR — directory containing icons for the Ipe user interface. cute ✨
• IPELUAPATH — path for searching for Ipe Lua code. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Otfried Cheong 💖

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at http://ipe.otfried.org/bugzilla.html

bestie if something's broken, tell the bugzilla. don't just suffer in silence, that's not the vibe 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Ipe is documented fully in The Ipe Manual, which is available online at http://ipe.otfried.org/manual/manual.html .

and that's the whole page, no cap — this version was living its best life on September 1, 2011, and it's from the IPE(1) manual, General Commands Manual era. slay 💅✨🎀