Ipe 7.1.

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May, 2014

Ipe extensible drawing editor

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Introduction
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This is the extensible drawing editor Ipe. Ipe allows you to create
figures in PDF format, for inclusion into LaTeX (or plain TeX)
documents as well as stand-alone PDF documents, for instance to print
transparencies or for on-line presentations.

See the manual for an introduction. It is available in both HTML

("build/doc/manual.html") and PDF format ("build/doc/manual.pdf").

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This is a binary distribution for Windows. You can find the original
sources used to compile it on the Ipe homepage (see below).

You can unzip this binary distribution whereever you like, but please
use a directory whose path contains neither spaces nor non-ASCII
characters. You can then find (and start) the Ipe executable in the
"bin" subdirectory.

You will want to either add the "bin" subdirectory to your path, or
add a shortcut to Ipe to your desktop or your start menu.

Ipe requires a LaTeX installation including 'pdflatex'. For Windows,

I test with the MikTeX distribution ("http://www.miktex.org"). Make
sure that 'pdflatex' is on your path!

There are three icons in "data" that you can use for your Ipe files
(*.xml, *.eps, and *.ipe files) (thanks to Bettina Speckmann for
making these).

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This file is part of the extensible drawing editor Ipe.

Copyright (C) 1993-2014 Otfried Cheong

Ipe is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it

under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

As a special exception, you have permission to link Ipe with the

CGAL library and distribute executables, as long as you follow the
requirements of the Gnu General Public License in regard to all of
the software in the executable aside from CGAL.

Ipe is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT

ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with Ipe; if not, you can find it at
"http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html", or write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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Ipe uses the Zlib library (www.gzip.org/zlib), the Freetype 2 library

(www.freetype.org), the Cairo library (www.cairographics.org), as well
as some code from Xpdf (www.foolabs.com/xpdf). Ipe contains the Lua
5.2 interpreter (www.lua.org), and uses the Qt toolkit for its
graphical user interface (qt.digia.com). Ipe relies on Pdflatex for
rendering text.

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Before reporting a bug, check that you have the latest version, and
check that it is not yet mentioned in the FAQ on the Ipe webpage.

You can report bugs on the bug tracking system at

"http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/bugzilla.html". Check the existing
reports to see whether your bug has already been reported. Please do
not send bug reports directly to me (the first thing I would do with
the report is to enter it into the bug tracking system).

Suggestions for features, or random comments on Ipe can be sent to the

Ipe discussion mailing list at <ipe-discuss@lists.science.uu.nl>. If
you have problems installing or using Ipe and cannot find a guru among
your real-life friends, the Ipe discussion mailing list would also be
the best place to ask.

You can send suggestions or comments directly to me by Email, but you

should then not expect a reply. I cannot dedicate much time to Ipe,
and the little time I have I prefer to put into development. I'm much
more likely to get involved in a discussion of desirable features on
the mailing list, where anyone interested can participate, rather than
by direct Email.

If you write interesting ipelets that might be useful to others,

please put a link or copy (as you prefer) on the Ipe wiki. Feel free
to advertise them on the Ipe discussion list!

Otfried Cheong
Dept. of Computer Science
KAIST
Daejeon, South Korea
Email: otfried@ipe.airpost.net
Ipe webpage: http://ipe7.sourceforge.net

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