Ipe 6.0 preview 30 December, 2007 Ipe extensible drawing editor ============================= Introduction ============ 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. The manual is available in HTML format ("doc/manual.html") as well as in PDF ("doc/manual.pdf"). 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 anywhere you wish on your computer (typical choices might be "C:\" or "C:\Program Files\"). You should avoid a location whose path contains non-ASCII characters! Double-click the Ipe program "bin/ipe.exe" to start Ipe. You will want to add a short-cut to your desktop or your start menu. Ipe requires a LaTeX installation including 'pdflatex'. For Windows, I recommend the MikTeX distribution ("http://www.miktex.org"). Make sure that 'pdflatex' is on your path, or set the environment variable IPEPDFLATEX to point to the 'pdflatex.exe' program. There are three icons in the data subdirectory that you can use for your Ipe files (*.xml, *.eps, and the old *.ipe files) (thanks to Bettina Speckmann for making these). The include and lib subdirectories are meant for compiling your own ipelets. The source code for the kgon and goodies ipelets is provided ("kgon.cpp" and "goodies.cpp"), as example code and for testing ipelet compilation. -------------------------------------------------------------------- You can probably save about 500 KB disk space by reusing 14 font files from your TeX directory tree (if you care): Have a look at the file "miktex-fontmap.xml" in the Ipe "data" subdirectory. Check that you have all the ".pfb" files mentioned in the file, and edit the path if it is not correct. If so, remove "fontmap.xml" and the "fonts" subdirectory, and rename "miktex-fontmap.xml" to "fontmap.xml". -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ipe is ``free,'' this means that everyone is free to use it and free to redistribute it on certain conditions. Ipe is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted and there are restrictions on its distribution as follows: Copyright (C) 1993-2007 Otfried Cheong This program 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 2 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. This program 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. A copy of the GNU General Public License is available on the World Wide web at "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html". You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ipe uses the Zlib library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler (www.gzip.org/zlib), the Freetype~2 library by David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg (www.freetype.org), as well as some code from Xpdf by Derek B. Noonburg (www.foolabs.com/xpdf). -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/ipe/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 . 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 than by direct Email. If you write interesting Ipelets that might be useful to others, please let me know, and I will put a link or copy (as you prefer) on the Ipe web page. Otfried Cheong Div. of Computer Science KAIST Daejeon, South Korea Email: otfried@ipe.airpost.net Ipe webpage: http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/ipe --------------------------------------------------------------------