12 Command line options and environment variables12.1 Command line options12.2 Environment variables

12.2 Environment variables

Ipe, ipetoipe, and iperender respect the following environment variables:

IPELATEXDIR
the directory where Ipe runs Pdflatex.
IPEFONTMAP
the complete path of the font map, describing where Ipe can find the 14 standard PDF fonts.
IPEDEBUG
set to 1 for debugging output.
IPEANCIENTPDFTEX
set this variable to use Pdftex versions older than 1.40.

The Ipe program uses several additional environment variables:

EDITOR
external editor to use for editing text objects.
IPESTYLES
a list of directories, separated by semicolons, where Ipe looks for stylesheets, for instance for the standard stylesheet basic.isy. You can write _ (a single underscore) for the system-wide stylesheet directory. If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide stylesheet directory, plus ~/.ipe/styles on Unix, plus ~/Library/Ipe/Styles on OS X.
IPELETPATH
a list of directories, separated by semicolons, containing ipelets. You can write _ (a single underscore) for the system-wide ipelet directory. If this variable is not set, the default consists of the system-wide ipelet directory, plus ~/.ipe/ipelets on Unix, plus ~/Library/Ipe/Ipelets on OS X.
IPEICONDIR
directory containing icons for the Ipe user interface.
IPEDOCDIR
directory containing Ipe documentation.
IPELUAPATH
path for searching for Ipe Lua code.

12 Command line options and environment variables12.1 Command line options12.2 Environment variables