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# 12 Importing Postscript and PDF

You can import arbitrary Postscript or PDF files into Ipe documents, making them editable. Ipe comes with a separate program pdftoipe that converts (pages from) a PDF file into an Ipe XML-file. (If your source is Postscript, you have to first convert it to PDF using Acrobat Distiller or ps2pdf.) Once converted to XML, the file can be opened from Ipe as usual.

The conversion process should handle any graphics in the PDF file fine, but doesn't do very well on text--Ipe's text model is just too different.

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