---
name: "ipetopng"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ipe"
version: "6.0pre30-5"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ipetopng"
---

# ipetopng(1)

Save an Ipe document as a bitmap

## NAME

ipetopng - Save an Ipe document as a bitmap

## SYNOPSIS

**ipetopng** *page* *resolution* *input-file* *output-file*

## DESCRIPTION

**ipetopng** converts a single page of an Ipe document as a PNG image.  You have to specify the *page* and the *resolution* in pixels per inch.

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

**ipetopng** respects the following environment variables:

- **IPELATEXDIR**

  the directory where **ipetopng** runs Pdflatex.

- **IPEPDFLATEX**

  the name of the Pdflatex executable.  If Pdflatex is on your path, the value  *pdflatex* is sufficient.

- **IPEFONTMAP**

  the complete path of the font map, describing where Ipe can find the 14 standard PDF fonts.

- **TEXINPUTS**

  when running Pdflatex, Ipe prepends both the current directory (where Ipe was started) as the directory containing the current document to the **TEXINPUTS** environment variable.

## AUTHOR

Otfried Cheong

## REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at *http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/ipe/bugzilla.html*

## SEE ALSO

More information about Ipe can be found in   *The Ipe Manual*, which can be found in */usr/share/doc/ipe/manual.html* or in pdf format in */usr/share/doc/ipe/manual.pdf*.