Ipe 6.0 preview 32
December, 2008
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
("doc/manual.html") and PDF format ("doc/manual.pdf").
The separate file "install.txt" explains how to build and install Ipe
on Unix. Ipe is also available for Windows in the form of a zip
archive. On Windows, all you need to do is unzip the archive, and you
are ready to run. (If you do want to compile on Windows yourself,
it's not difficult---based on the Unix instructions you should be able
to work it out.)
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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) 1993-2008 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.
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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).
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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://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 <ipe-discuss@cs.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 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
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