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<H1>Running the installer</H1>
	<p>
	You need a JDK >= 1.3, which you can download from either
	<a href="http://java.sun.com">Java.SUN</a> (Windows, Unix),
	<a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux140/">IBM's developerworks</a>
	(especially suited for Linux), or
	<a href="http://www.blackdown.org">Blackdown</a> (direct Linux port of SUN's
	implementation). MacOS users may
	refer to <a href="www.apple.com">Apple</a> website for instruction about
	installing Java on MacOS.
	<p>
	Then simply type :
	<br>
	<code>java -jar jpicedt-install.jar</code>
	<br>
	in a Unix-console or a DOS-commando, 
	or double-click the JAR file (Windows's
	</P>

<h1>Getting the latest release</h1>
	Just visit jPicEdt's official website at <a href="http://www.jpicedt.org">www.jpicedt.org</a>.

<h1>What is jPicEdt ?</h1>

	<p>
	jPicEdt is a software aimed at alleviating the burden of using PsTricks, eepic or LaTeX's picture environment macros in a LaTeX file.
	It allows the user to draw graphical objects using graphic primitives (e.g. splines, arcs, polygons,...), position them
	easily with the mouse, and add text using LaTeX/PsTricks box commands (e.g. dashbox, psframebox,...). Yet this is not a 100% WYSIWYG software, 
	and arguments of box commands are displayed as is (jpicedt doesn't include any TeX compiler !).
	</p>
	<p>
	As of release 1.3.2, pictures can be saved to one of the three following formats :
	<ul>
	<li>LaTeX's standard picture environment, including emulated objects, e.g. lines of any slope</li> 
	(which LaTeX doesn't support natively), circles of any size, ellipses, arcs and polygons.
	<li>epic/eepic, including dashed lines, shading, filled arcs,... </li>
	<li>PsTricks macro packages : almost every macro in the pstricks.sty package are supported, yet support for add-ons (i.e. pst-node.sty, pst-coil.sty
	and gradient.sty) is still underway.
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>
	<p>
	jPicEdt can also parse files that include macros in one of these three formats. 
	This allows in particular to load files generated by 
	GnuPlot with a "gset term eepic" or "gset term pstricks" command.
	</p>
	<p>
	jPicEdt is written in Java, and is therefore 100% multiplatform. Older releases (1.2 and older) are JDK1.1.x compliant ; 
	current	release works with any JDK 1.3 or 1.4.
	Latest JDK1.1-compliant releases can be downloaded at 
	<a href="http://www.jpicedt.org">http://www.jpicedt.org/</a>. 
	<p>
	jPicEdt is free software, and is licensed under GNU Public License.
	It has i18n support for the english, french, portuguese and spanish languages.
	</p>



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