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PDFTOIPE(1)						      General Commands Manual						       PDFTOIPE(1)

NAME

       pdftoipe - Convert PDF files into editable Ipe format

SYNOPSIS

       pdftoipe { options } PDF file [ XML file ]

DESCRIPTION

       pdftoipe converts arbitrary PDF files to Ipe's XML format.

       Note  that pdftoipe is not related to Ipe's use of the PDF file format.	PDF files generated by Ipe contain an extra stream with Ipe markup
       information, which is necessary for Ipe to read the file again.	If you wish to convert an Ipe-generated PDF-file to XML format, you should
       use ipetoipe -xml!  pdftoipe is meant to allow you to take arbitrary PDF files and make them editable in Ipe.

       pdftoipe  does  a  pretty  good job on drawings, but doesn't handle text very well.  Ipe's text model is based on LaTeX, which is just very
       different from the text found in most PDF files.

       -notext
	      Ignore all text in the PDF file, convert graphics only

       -literal
	      Allow Latex markup in text objects.  The default is to escape all characters special in Latex.

       -math  Use LaTeX math mode for all text in the PDF file

       -merge int
	      Set the text merge level, an integer between 0 (the default) and 2.  It determines how eagerly pdftoipe tries to combine consecutive
	      text  in the PDF document into a single Ipe text object.	At level 0, only characters consecutively rendered in PDF are combined. At
	      level 1, more text is combined.  At level 2, all text is combined until a path or image is drawn.

       -unicode int
	      Determine what should be done with non-ASCII characters in text.	At level 0, all non-ASCII characters are represented  as  [U+XXX].
	      At  level 1 (the default), some often used characters (such as bullets) are replaced by Latex equivalents, others are represented as
	      [U+XXX].	At level 2, characters that are not replaced by Latex equivalents are included in UTF-8.  At level 3, all  characters  are
	      included as UTF-8.

	      At level 2 and 3, UTF-8 is set as the input encoding in the Latex preamble of the generated Ipe document.

	      Note  that this only concerns characters for which the PDF file provides a mapping to Unicode.  Characters from embedded fonts with-
	      out Unicode mapping (such as symbol fonts) are always represented as [S+XX].

       -f int First page to convert

       -l int Last page to convert

       -opw string
	      Owner password for encrypted PDF files

       -upw string
	      User password for encrypted PDF files

       -q     Quiet mode (don't print any messages or errors)

AUTHOR

       Otfried Cheong

REPORTING BUGS

       Please report bugs at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/bugzilla.html

SEE ALSO

       More information about Ipe can be found in The Ipe Manual, available online at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual.html

								 October 13, 2009						       PDFTOIPE(1)

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IPETOIPE(1)						      General Commands Manual						       IPETOIPE(1)

NAME

       ipetoipe - Convert between Ipe file formats

SYNOPSIS

       ipetoipe ( -pdf | -eps | -xml ) { options } input-file [ output-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       ipetoipe converts between the three Ipe file formats XML, PDF, and EPS.	 Options are:

       -pdf   convert to PDF format

       -eps   convert to EPS (encapsulated Postscript) format

       -xml   convert to XML format

       -export
	      do not include Ipe markup in the output file.
	      Warning: this means that Ipe will not be able to read the resulting output file.

       -pages from-to
	      restrict exporting to PDF to this page range.  This implies  the -export option.

       -view page-view
	      only export this single view from the document.  This implies  the -export option.

       -markedview
	      create  a Postscript/PDF page only for the marked views of marked Ipe pages. This is for instance convenient for making handouts for
	      slides used in a presentation. This implies the -export option.

       -runlatex
	      run Latex even for XML output. This has the effect of including the dimensions of each text object in the XML file.

       -nocolor
	      do not use any color commands in Postscript output.  This is useful if you are preparing a manuscript for publication where the pub-
	      lisher  checks that the figures are grayscale only.  Note that this option doesn't actually verify that the figure contains no color
	      (a figure using color processed with this option will cause a Postscript error when displayed).

       -nozip do not compress streams in PDF or Postscript output.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       ipetoipe respects the following environment variables:

       IPELATEXDIR
	      the directory where ipetoipe runs Pdflatex.

       IPEDEBUG
	      set this to 1 for debugging output.

AUTHOR

       Otfried Cheong

REPORTING BUGS

       Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/bugzilla.html

SEE ALSO

       Ipe is documented fully in The Ipe Manual, which is available online at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual.html .

								   June 27, 2009						       IPETOIPE(1)
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