Version 6.0
April, 2003

                    Ipe extensible drawing editor
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Introduction
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This is the extensible drawing editor Ipe.  Ipe allows you to create
figures in PDF format, for inclusion into LaTeX (or plain TeX)
documents as well as stand-alone PDF documents, for instance to print
transparencies or for on-line presentations.

See the manual for an introduction. It is available in both HTML
("doc/manual.html") and PDF format ("doc/manual.pdf").

The separate file "install.txt" explains how to build and install Ipe
on Unix.  Ipe is also available for Windows in the form of a zip
archive. On Windows, all you need to do is unzip the archive, and you
are ready to run.  (If you really do want to compile on Windows
yourself, it's not difficult---based on the Unix instructions you
should be able to work it out.)

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Ipe is ``free,'' this means that everyone is free to use it and free
to redistribute it on certain conditions. Ipe is not in the public
domain; it is copyrighted and there are restrictions on its
distribution as follows:

Copyright (C) 1993-2003 Otfried Cheong

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available on the World
Wide web at "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html".  You can also
obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass
Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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The subdirectory Xpdflib contains a nearly original copy of code from
Xpdf by Derek B. Noonburg (www.foolabs.com/xpdf), with some
(mechanically performed) modifications to suit Ipe.

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Before reporting a bug, check that you have the latest version, and
check that it is not yet mentioned in the FAQ on the Ipe webpage.

You can report bugs, suggestions for features, or random comments on
Ipe to the Ipe discussion mailing list at <ipe-discuss@cs.uu.nl>.  If
you have problems installing or using Ipe and cannot find a guru among
your real-life friends, the Ipe discussion mailing list would also be
the place to ask.

You can also send bug reports, suggestions or comments directly to me
by Email, but you should then not expect a reply.  I cannot dedicate
much time to Ipe, and the little time I have I prefer to put into
development.  I'm much more likely to get involved in a discussion of
desirable features on the mailing list, where anyone interested can
participate than by direct Email.

If you write interesting Ipelets that might be useful to others,
please let me know, and I will put a link or copy (as you prefer) on
the Ipe web page.

    	Otfried Cheong
	Dept. of Computer Science
	TU Eindhoven
	Eindhoven, the Netherlands
	Email: o.cheong@tue.nl
	Ipe webpage: http://ipe.compgeom.org

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