# The Ipe manual

## Otfried Cheong

### December 1, 2008

This manual is for Ipe 6.0 preview 32.

The manual is also available in PDF format.

For writing ipelets, also see the Ipe library documentation.

- 1 Introduction
- 2 About Ipe files
- 3 Command line options, auxiliary programs, and environment variables
- 4 General Concepts
- 5 Object types
- 6 Snapping
- 7 Style sheets
- 8 Page views
- 9 Writing ipelets
- 10 Troubleshooting the LaTeX-conversion
- 11 Using Truetype fonts
- 12 Unicode text
- 13 Customizing Ipe
- 14 The Ipe file format
- 15 If you have used Ipe 5 before...
- 16 History and acknowledgments
- 17 Copyright
- Contents
- Footnotes