Preview of Ipe 6.0 availabe

[Otfried Cheong]

Dear computational geometers,

some of you may still remember the drawing program Ipe that I wrote in
1993-1994, and in fact some of you are still using it until today.

Well, finally I've rewritten Ipe from scratch, and a preview of the
new version Ipe 6 is available at

	http://ipe.compgeom.org

(Thanks to Herve Bronnimann for hosting this page!)

For those of you too young to remember, or who for some other reason
have never heard about Ipe, below is a list of the main features.  To
say it even more concisely: Ipe is a drawing program for computational
geometers, written by a computational geometer.

Best wishes,
  Otfried Cheong

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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.

 * Ipe is available for Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X.

 * Ipe is written in standard C++ using the STL, and released under
   the Gnu Public License.

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