man pdftoipe (Commandes) - Convert PDF files into editable Ipe format

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
-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.compgeom.org/bugzilla.html

SEE ALSO

More information about Ipe can be found 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 if you have the ipe package installed.