Bug#186743: RFP: ipe -- drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format

["Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca>]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-03-29
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : ipe
  Version         : 6
  Upstream Author : Otfried Cheong <o.cheong@tue.nl>
* URL             : http://ipe.compgeom.org
* License         : GPL
  Description     : drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format


Ipe is a drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or (encapsulated)
Postscript format.  It supports making small figures for inclusion
into LaTeX-documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations
that can be shown on-line with Acrobat Reader.

Ipe's main features are:

 * Entry of text as LaTeX source code. This makes it easy to enter
   mathematical expressions, and to reuse the LaTeX-macros of the main
   document.  In the display text is displayed as it will appear in
   the figure.

 * Produces pure Postscript/PDF, including the text. Ipe converts the
   LaTeX-source to PDF or Postscript when the file is saved.

 * It is easy to align objects with respect to each other (for
   instance, to place a point on the intersection of two lines, or to
   draw a circle through three given points) using various snapping
   modes.

 * Users can provide ipelets (Ipe plug-ins) to add functionality to
   Ipe.  This way, Ipe can be extended for each task at hand.

 * The text model is based on Unicode, and has been tested with Korean,
   Chinese, and Japanese.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux riemann 2.4.20-686 #1 Mon Jan 13 22:22:30 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C