# The Ipe manual

## Otfried Cheong

### November 17, 2003

This manual is for Ipe 6.0 preview 12.

The manual is also available in PDF format.

For writing ipelets, also see the Ipe library documentation.

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