debian man page for figtoipe

FIGTOIPE(1)						      General Commands Manual						       FIGTOIPE(1)

NAME
       figtoipe - Convert FIG figures into Ipe format

SYNOPSIS
       figtoipe [-g] [-p preamble] FIGfile XMLfile

DESCRIPTION
       figtoipe converts files in FIG format (as created, e.g., by xfig) to Ipe's XML format.

       figtoipe  is  not  complete.   The  main lacking feature is the conversion of splines.  Arc-boxes are replaced by rectangles.  Feel free to
       improve this version!

       The drawing models of FIG and Ipe are somewhat different.  Ipe does not support depth ordering independent of grouping, pattern	fill,  and
       Postscript fonts.

       figtoipe  tries	to  include  images specified in the XFIG file. For JPEG pictures, it tries include the compressed image data into the XML
       file. For files not recognized as JPEG, anytopnm is called; its output is compressed and included in the XML file. Some output of  anytopnm
       might be rejected (e.g. images larger than 5000x5000 pixels or B&W bitmaps), or misunderstood.

OPTIONS
       -g group the figure in the output XML

       -p latex
	      add latex as a preamble to the generated XML file, e.g.
		   'usepackage{amsmath}'

AUTHORS
       Otfried Cheong
       Alexander Burger <acfb@users.sf.net> (image handling)

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 your Ipe installation.

LICENSE &; WARRANTY
       figtoipe comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Gen-
       eral Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       See the file GPL-2 accompanying the source for details.

								  April 26, 2008						       FIGTOIPE(1)