fig2vect 1.1.22
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fig2vect 1.1.22

 

Installation

Installation from source (Unix/Linux)

Prerequisitions

Note: If you installed these packages using your OS vendors package management software make sure the header files... are also installed.
Some systems have separated packages: one for binaries and shared libraries and an additional one (mostly called "xxx developer support") containing C header files and other material needed to compile programs using the library.

Download

The source code is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fig2vect.

Installation procedure

The usual procedure

./configure
make
make install

can be used to install the software.

If it is possible for you to copy the GhostScript fonts from the GhostScript source package to a directory on a web server, provide the ``--with-fontbase'' option to configure:

./configure --with-fontbase=http://my-server.my-domain.com/gs-fonts
So if you use the Java output driver to create classes implementing the java.awt.Printable interface these applications can retrieve the fonts from your server, you don't need to package them into the *.jar file.

Executable setup (Windows)

The dklibs-win32 package of the dklibs SourceForge project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dklibs contains the executable files dklibs-win32-user-*.exe and dklibs-win32-base-*.exe.
The dklibs-win32-user-*.exe file is the recommended setup, it installs binaries and documentation to the local hard disk. The dklibs-win32-base-*.exe file only installs the binaries, start menu entries for documentation will point to web resources. This is recommended only for computers connected to the internet permanently.

Installation from source on Windows

This is possible, of course. Good skills in using your development environment, C compiler linker and make program are required. The file http://dklibs.sourceforge.net/inst_w32.html a detailed description how to build the dklibs and dklibs-based software like fig2vect from source on Windows systems.

Configure whether or not to use UTF-8 encoding support

Fig2vect version 1.1.7 (and above) provides support for UTF-8 encoded texts in Fig files.
By default fig2vect inspects the LANG environment variable, if it ends on ``.UTF-8'' UTF-8 support is enabled, otherwise it is disabled.
This default setting is ok for users using XFig but not for jFig.
JFig -- or one of the libraries it uses -- is UTF-8-aware and converts UTF-8 encoded data from keyboard events into an internal representation and saves text in Fig files not UTF-8 encoded. So fig2vect must not UTF-8-decode the text again.
There are different ways to change the default setting:

  • On Linux/Unix systems for all users:
    As root, add a section 
    [*/fig2vect]
/utf-8	=	no
    or 
    [*/fig2vect]
/utf-8	=	yes
    to the $sysconfdir/appdefaults file
    $sysconfdir is the system configuration directory, typically /etc or /usr/local/etc.
  • On Linux/Unix systems for the current user:
    Add a section 
    [fig2vect]
/utf-8	=	no
    or 
    [fig2vect]
/utf-8	=	yes
    to the $HOME/.defaults/all file.
  • On Windows systems for all users:
    In the registry key HKLM\Software\DkApp\fig2vect (create the key if necessary) add a string entry, the name is ``all/all:/utf-8'', the value is either ``yes'' or ``no''.
  • On windows systems for the current user:
    In the registry key HKCU\Software\DkApp\fig2vect add a string entry, the name is ``all:/utf-8'', the value is either ``yes'' or ``no''.

When running fig2vect you can override the default setting specifying the ``-o utf-8=yes'' or ``-o utf-8=no'' command line options to fig2vect.

Update the per-machine fig2vect.cfg file after updating fig2vect

The fig2vect installation process does not overwrite an existing fig2vect.cfg file (you may have edited it). Some fig2vect updates may introduce new default configurations in section 1 of the configuration file.
So after upgrading fig2vect you should manually edit the per-machine file fig2vect.cfg and transfer section 1 from the fig2vect.cfg file in the source distribution into your existing version of the configuration file.

Dirk Krause
Schmalkalden (Germany), 2009-11-30
http://fig2vect.sourceforge.net