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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