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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PREREX.STY 7 2014-03-22 "prerex.sty-6.5" ""
+.TH PREREX.STY 7 2014-04-11 "prerex.sty-6.6" ""
.SH NAME
prerex.sty \- a LaTeX document style for prerequisite charts
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -8,12 +8,6 @@ defines macros that
can use
to draw charts consisting of labelled course boxes linked by arrows
that represent pre- and co-requisite requirements.
-If
-.B pdflatex
-is used,
-auxiliary files will be generated as follows: image-map data and xlink commands for the
-hyperlinked nodes in the diagram and a shell script to crop a PNG image generated from
-a Postscript or PDF chart.
.P
If the source file satisfies the constraints
of the
@@ -249,17 +243,7 @@ Such coordinate displays make it easier to edit chart descriptions.
When the grid is on, the mid-point of every arrow is highlighted by a
"bullet".
.PP
-The
-.B prerex
-package at
-.B http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/prerex/
-has a patch for
-.BR kpdf / okular (1)
-to make it display URIs in tooltips and also capture coordinates of course boxes, arrows and
-background points in the X selection clipboard (for pasting into a
-command being composed at the
-.BR prerex (1)
-prompt). There is also a GUI frontend
+There is a GUI frontend
.BR vprerex (1)
to the
.BR prerex (1)
@@ -314,7 +298,6 @@ coordinate unit if the chart is converted to an image at 125 dpi.
.IP
.BI \enewcommand{\ePixelsPerUnit}{ 10 }
.LP
-These must be re-defined together if the image-map data are to be correct.
.IP
.BI \esetcounter{diagheight}{ 75 }
.LP
@@ -358,10 +341,9 @@ with add-on package
The following additional packages are used:
.B relsize,
.B calc,
-.B ifpdf,
.B multido,
.B textcomp,
-.B zref-savepos
+.B xcolor,
and
.B hyperref.
.I Either
@@ -378,29 +360,6 @@ followed by
.BR dvipdfmx (1)
may be used.
.P
-To convert a chart to a compact but reasonably high-quality image, it is suggested to use the
-.BR convert (1)
-tool of
-.BR ImageMagick (1)
-as follows:
-.IP
-.B convert
-.I -density 125 chart.ps chart.png
-.LP
-or
-.IP
-.B convert
-.I -density 125 chart.pdf chart.png
-.LP
-The density parameter specifies the number of pixels per inch; if this is too small, the
-image is of poor quality, and if it is too large, the image file is too big.
-By default, the shell script generated by
-.B prerex.sty
-crops the image at the southeast corner.
-It is possible to use a PNG compression application such as
-.BR optipng (1)
-to reduce the file-size of the cropped image (without loss of quality).
-.P
To convert a PDF chart to SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphic) format, it is recommended to
use
.BR pdf2svg (1),
@@ -438,21 +397,6 @@ is re-defined to pass node coordinates in URIs. Also,
two "anchor" hyperlinks are inserted at the southwest and northeast corners
of the diagram to allow prerex-enabled
PDF viewers to compute chart coordinates.
-.P
-To support HTML versions of charts,
-.B prerex.sty
-(when processed by
-.BR pdflatex (1))
-generates a script to crop a chart image at the southeast corner, allowing
-descriptive notes below the chart to be treated as ordinary text. Also,
-it generates image-map data for use with an HTML image map and
-xlink data for use with a SVG image. To
-obtain absolute page coordinates, the
-.B zsavepos,
-.B zposx
-and
-.B zposy
-commands are used; the page coordinates are converted into pixel coordinates.
.SH LICENSE
.B prerex.sty
and this document may be distributed and/or modified under the
@@ -460,8 +404,6 @@ conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License.
.SH AUTHOR
R. D. Tennent (rdt@cs.queensu.ca)
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR ImageMagick (1),
-.BR convert (1).
.BR dvipdfmx (1),
.BR dvips (1),
.BR evince (1),
@@ -469,7 +411,6 @@ R. D. Tennent (rdt@cs.queensu.ca)
.BR kpdf (1),
.BR latex (1),
.BR okular (1),
-.BR optipng (1),
.BR pdf2svg (1),
.BR pdflatex (1),
.BR prerex (1),