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-INSTALLATION
-------------
-
-* Prerequisites
- you need:
- - perl (an interpreter for the perl language, see http://www.perl.com)
- - ghostscript (an interpreter/raster image processor
- for the PostScript language,
- see http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
- - maybe an ANSI-C compiler if the provided binaries for bbox do not work
- for you. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I tried to write a bbox
- equivalent in perl and it was terribly slow. Therefore I stick to C,
- because of much better performance.
- ALTERNATIVELY you can use ps2eps option -g, then no bbox binary is
- required.
-
-* How to install
-
- Please check that you have working
- perl and ghostscript packages.
-
- Linux/UNIX-based platform
- =========================
- 1.) install bbox
-
- If a bbox binary is included for your platform you simply move it
- into any directory of the system search path. Otherwise, you have
- to compile bbox.c first by invoking
- cc -o bbox bbox.c.
- (sometimes "make bbox" also works).
- Please make sure that bbox is executable (chmod a+x bbox).
- If you already have a working perl and a working ghostscript, you're
- finished here, else you have to install them first.
-
- 2.) install ps2eps
- On Unix platforms you simply move the perl script ps2eps into
- a directory which is included in the system or personal search
- path (e.g., /usr/local/bin, $home/bin). Please make sure that
- ps2eps is executable (chmod a+x ps2eps).
-
- Windows-based platform
- ======================
- Use the command line interpreter:
- Copy bbox.exe from bin/win32/ directory into a directory that is
- in your's or the system's search path for executables. Please try
- to invoke bbox -h afterwards.
-
- The best possibility is to use associated file types under
- Windows NT/2000/XP:
- 1.) rename ps2eps to ps2eps.pl and
- 2.) SET PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT% or use the
- settings -> control panel -> system -> "advanced" tab -> environment variables
- and edit the PATHEXT entry accordingly.
- 3.) then simply typing ps2eps should invoke ps2eps correctly
-
- Another option is to call perl directly:
- perl ps2eps ...
-
- The script assumes that you have "gswin32c" as
- postscript interpreter in your path. Under Windows ps2eps
- can perform wildcard expansion now on its own.
-
-UPDATES
--------
-Possibly you can find the newest version at the
-following URL:
-http://tm.uka.de/~bless/ps2eps