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

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.

-sheet stylesheet

add the Ipe style sheet in the indicated file to all newly created Ipe documents.

-geom WxH+X+Y

display the first Ipe window with the given position and size.

-debug

display debug output on stderr.

Ipe respects the following environment variables:

IPELATEXDIR

the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex.

IPEPDFLATEX

the name of the Pdflatex executable. If Pdflatex is on your path, the value pdflatex is sufficient.

IPEBINDIR

the directory containing the ipe5toxml program (it is run by Ipe to open Ipe 5 documents).

IPEDOCDIR

the directory containing the Ipe documentation.

IPELANGDIR

the directory containing user interface localization for Ipe. (No such localization exists yet.)

IPEFONTMAP

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

IPEBROWSER

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.)

IPELETPATH

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

TEXINPUTS

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