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PDFTOIPE

NAME

pdftoipe − Convert PDF files into editable Ipe format

SYNOPSIS

pdftoipe [ -f int ] [ -l int ] [ -opw string ] [ -upw string ] [ -q ] 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.

-math

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

-notext

Ignore all text in the PDF file, convert graphics only

-literal

Allow Latex markup in text objects.

-merge int

Set the 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.

-cyberbit

Include the cyberbit style file (for displaying Unicode characters using the Cyberbit font). See the Ipe manual for details.

-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

Pdftoipe consists for 99% of code from Xpdf, by Derek Noonburg. The remaining 1% of code was written by Otfried Cheong.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at http://ipe.airpost.net/bugzilla.html

SEE ALSO

More information about Ipe can be found (if you have the ipe package installed ) in The Ipe Manual, which can be found in /usr/share/doc/ipe/doc/manual.html or in pdf format in /usr/share/doc/ipe/doc/manual.pdf.

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