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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 directory where Ipe looks for stylesheets, for
instance for the standard stylesheet basic.isy.
- IPELETPATH
- a list of directories containing ipelets.
- IPEICONDIR
- directory containing icons for the Ipe user interface.
- IPEDOCDIR
- directory containing Ipe documentation.
- IPELUAPATH
- path for searching for Ipe Lua code.
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