---
name: "ipe"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ipe"
version: "7.2.30-1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ipe"
---

# ipe(1)

drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS formats

## NAME

ipe - drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS formats

## SYNOPSIS

**ipe** \[ *Qt options* \] \[ -sheet *stylesheet* \] *filename*

## DESCRIPTION

Ipe is a program that supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations.

This manual page only documents the command line options and environment variables.  Full documentation for using Ipe can be found in HTML and PDF format; see below.

- **-sheet** *stylesheet*

  add the Ipe style sheet in the indicated file to all newly created Ipe documents.  This option can be used more than once.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Ipe respects the following environment variables:

- **IPELATEXDIR**

  the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex.

- **IPELATEXPATH**

  the directory containing pdflatex and xelatex.  If not set, they are searched for on the path.

- **IPELETPATH** a list of directories, separated by semicolons,

  containing ipelets. You can write a single underscore for the system-wide ipelet directory. If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide ipelet directory, plus *~/.ipe/ipelets* on Unix, plus *~/Library/Ipe/Ipelets* on OS X.

- **EDITOR**

  external editor to use for editing text objects.

- **IPESTYLES** a list of directories, separated by semicolons, where

  Ipe looks for stylesheets. You can write a single underscore for the system-wide stylesheet directory.  If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide stylesheet directory, plus *~/.ipe/styles* on Unix, plus *~/Library/Ipe/Styles* on OS X.

- **IPEDEBUG**

  set this to 1 for debugging output.

- **IPEDOCDIR**

  the directory containing the Ipe documentation.

- **IPEICONDIR** directory containing icons for the Ipe user

  interface.

- **IPELUAPATH**

  path for searching for Ipe Lua code.

## AUTHOR

Otfried Cheong

## REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at *http://ipe.otfried.org/bugzilla.html*

## SEE ALSO

Ipe is documented fully in *The Ipe Manual*, which is available online at *http://ipe.otfried.org/manual/manual.html .*