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+CONTENTS
+========
+1. Purpose of the package
+2. Installation (Unix/Linux, Windows)
+3. Recent sources and documentation
+4. Developer information
+5. Contact
+
+
+
+1. Purpose of the package
+=========================
+This package contains the png2pdf program. This program converts PNG
+images to PDF files. It can use the PNG alpha channel to mix against
+a background (either from the PNG file's background chunk or user
+specified) and/or to create an image mask or PDF alpha channel.
+
+This software is released under a BSD-style license.
+See the file bsdlic.txt for details.
+
+
+
+2. Installation
+===============
+
+2.1 Installation on Unix/Linux
+------------------------------
+
+2.1.1 Required libraries
+The following libraries are required to install png2pdf:
+- zlib (required)
+ http://www.gzip.org/zlib
+- bzip2 (recommended)
+ http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
+- libpng (required)
+ http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
+- 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
+After unpacking the png2pdf source the usual
+ ./configure
+ make
+ make install
+procedure should work.
+
+2.2 Installation on Windows
+---------------------------
+Windows users are encourage to use the setup executables from
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/dklibs in the
+dklibs-win32 package. The *user*.exe file installs the programs
+and the documentataion, the *dev*.exe file also installs the
+sources for all the programs and all the libraries needed to
+build the programs.
+
+
+3. Recent sources and documentation
+===================================
+The project is hosted on SourceForge, see
+ http://png2pdf.sourceforge.net
+and
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/png2pdf
+for the most recent sources and documentation.
+
+
+
+4. Developer Information
+========================
+
+For each module you find 2 source files: *.ctr and *.c.
+The *.c file is created from the *.ctr file by running tracecc.
+If you want to apply changes to the source, do it in the *.ctr
+file.
+
+
+
+5. 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 "png2pdf bug" or "png2pdf suggestion" in the subject.
+
+The bugtracking and feature mechanisms on the SourceForge
+web site http://sourceforge.net/projects/png2pdf can also be used,
+I check them approximately once per month.
+
+Dirk Krause
+2005-02-15
+
+