CONTENTS
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1. Package overview
2. Installation
   2.1 Installation on Unix/Linux
   2.2 Installation on Windows
3. Access to recent sources and documentation
4. Contact



1. Package overview
===================

This package contains the fig2vect program to convert Fig drawing
files (created using XFig, jFig or WinFig) to Metapost, EPS or SVG.

The program is licensed to you under the terms of a BSD-style license,
see bsdlic.txt for details.



2. Installation
===============

2.1 Installation on Unix/Linux
------------------------------

2.1.1 Required libraries
The following libraries are needed to build fig2vect:
- zlib    (recommended)
  http://www.gzip.org/zlib
- bzip2   (recommended)
  http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
- libpng  (recommended)
  http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
- jpeglib (recommended)
  ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
- NetPBM  (recommended)
  ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/convert/netpbm-10.11.10.tgz
- dklibs  (_required_)
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/dklibs
Note: If you use package management software to install these libraries
make sure the developer support (C header files...) is installed too.
Some package managers use separated packages (xxx-dev) to provide
developer support for libraries.

2.1.2 Installation procedure
The typical
  ./configure
  make
  make install
procedure should work


2.2 Installation on Windows
---------------------------

Windows users should check http://sourceforge.net/projects/dklibs 
and use the setup executables from the dklibs-win32 branch.
These executables install the dklibs library set and some of the
applications using these libraries (fig2vect is one of them).
The *user* file installs the software and documentation, the
*dev* file additionally installs all the sources needed to build
the software.



3. Access to recent sources and documentation
=============================================

See
  http://fig2vect.sourceforge.net
and
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/fig2vect
for the most recent sources and documentation.



4. Contact
==========

You can contact me using the contact form
http://www.fh-schmalkalden.de/url.php?/page/1026/select_wert/3023 on
our faculty's web server.
Please use "fig2vect bug" or "fig2vect suggestion" in the subject.

The bugtracking and feature mechanisms on the SourceForge
web site http://sourceforge.net/projects/fig2vect can also be used,
I check them approximately once per month.

Dirk Krause
2005-02-15