IPERENDER(1)

✨ IPERENDER(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section for iperender, and no cap, this little tool is genuinely iconic. πŸ’–


🌸 NAME 🌸

iperender β€” Export Ipe document as bitmap or SVG


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

iperender ( -png | -eps | -pdf | -svg ) [ -page page ] [ -view view ] [
-resolution dpi ] [ -transparent ] [ -nocrop ] input-file output-file

πŸ’… DESCRIPTION πŸ’…

so here's the vibe: iperender exports an Ipe document as a PNG bitmap, as a figure in Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), in PDF, or in SVG format. literally the whole glow-up pipeline. ✨

Options are:

  • -png β€” export as a PNG image πŸ–ΌοΈ
  • -eps β€” export as an EPS figure
  • -pdf β€” export as a PDF figure
  • -svg β€” export as an SVG figure
  • -page page β€” export this page from a multipage document. πŸ“„
  • -view view β€” export this view from a page with multiple views. πŸ‘€
  • -resolution dpi β€” set resolution for exporting to PNG. πŸ”
  • -transparent β€” make background transparent when exporting to PNG. 🫧
  • -nocrop β€” do not crop the page to the bounding box of the objects. βœ‚οΈ

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

iperender respects the following environment variables, periodt:

  • IPELATEXDIR β€” the directory where ipetoipe runs Pdflatex. 🧚
  • IPELATEXPATH β€” the directory containing pdflatex and xelatex. If not set, they are searched for on the path. πŸ”Ž
  • IPEDEBUG β€” set this to 1 for debugging output from iperender. πŸ›

πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

Otfried Cheong πŸ’œ


😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

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

not me asking you to file a bug report, but fr fr, they wanna hear about it. πŸ™ˆ

πŸ¦‹ SEE ALSO πŸ¦‹

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 thing, bestie β€” June 27, 2009, the IPERENDER(1) era, and we are obsessed. go export something gorgeous. πŸ’–βœ¨πŸŽ€