<div dir="ltr"><div>To increase the base point size in latex to 12pt, one would start with<br><br>    \documentclass[12pt]{article}<br><br>To increase the base point size for a latex document mid-document one might add<br><br>    \fontsize{12}{12}\selectfont<br><br>to the preamble. Ref: <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/4140/9549">https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/4140/9549</a><br><br>Since Ipe wraps in \documentclass itself, I tried using the latter method to increase the base point to 12pt, but that didn&#39;t work. Can you suggest another way?<br><br>You can see that the base point size is different by comparing the output of running<br><br>    iperender -pdf 12pt-base.ipe 12pt-base.pdf<br><br>on the ipe/xml file:<br><br>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;<br>&lt;!DOCTYPE ipe SYSTEM &quot;ipe.dtd&quot;&gt;<br>&lt;ipe version=&quot;70206&quot; creator=&quot;Ipe 7.2.7&quot;&gt;<br>&lt;info created=&quot;D:20170628114219&quot; modified=&quot;D:20170628114232&quot;/&gt;<br>&lt;ipestyle name=&quot;letter-portrait&quot;&gt;<br>&lt;layout paper=&quot;612 792&quot; origin=&quot;0 0&quot; frame=&quot;612 792&quot;/&gt;<br>&lt;/ipestyle&gt;<br>&lt;page&gt;<br>&lt;layer name=&quot;alpha&quot;/&gt;<br>&lt;view layers=&quot;alpha&quot; active=&quot;alpha&quot;/&gt;<br>&lt;path layer=&quot;alpha&quot; stroke=&quot;black&quot;&gt;<br>0 792 m<br>0 0 l<br>612 0 l<br>612 792 l<br>h<br>&lt;/path&gt;<br>&lt;text transformations=&quot;translations&quot; pos=&quot;192 640&quot; stroke=&quot;black&quot; type=&quot;label&quot; width=&quot;67.123&quot; height=&quot;6.815&quot; depth=&quot;1.93&quot; valign=&quot;baseline&quot;&gt;Greetings, 12pt&lt;/text&gt;<br>&lt;/page&gt;<br>&lt;/ipe&gt;<br><br>with the result of pdflatex on the file<br><br>\documentclass[12pt]{article}<br>\usepackage{helvet}<br>\renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}<br>\begin{document}<br>\thispagestyle{empty}<br>Greetings, 12pt<br>\end{document}<br><br>The same issue arises with 11pt, but then it&#39;s harder to see that the two font sizes are not equal.<br><br></div>-Sherif Ghali<br><br></div>