fig2vect - yet another Fig to vector converter

Installation

PDF manual "fig2vect.pdf" available
german version "f2vde.pdf" available too

	Installation from source (Unix/Linux)
		Prerequisitions
		Download
		Installation procedure
	Executable setup (Windows)
	Installation from source on Windows
	Configure whether or not to use UTF-8 encoding support

Installation from source (recommended for UNIX/Linux)

Prerequisitions

The following libraries are needed/recommended to install fig2vect:

Recommended: zlib (General Purpose Compression library)
http://www.zlib.net
Recommended: libbzip2 (The bzip2 compression library)
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2
Required: dklibs (Dirk Krause's libraries), version 1.11.0 or newer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dklibs
Recommended: libpng (PNG reference library)
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Recommended: jpeglib (Independent JPEG Group's free JPEG software)
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
Recommended: NetPBM
ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/convert/netpbm-10.11.10.tgz

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

./configure
make
make install

can be used to install the software.

Executable setup (recommended for Windows)

Windows users should obtain an executable setup file dklibs-win32-*-setup.exe from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dklibs.
There are two versions:

dklibs-win32-*-user-setup.exe, installs binaries and documentation
dklibs-win32-*-dev-setup.exe, installs binaries, documentation and all the sources needed to build the binaries (and all the libraries... needed to build the binaries).

Both executables install the dklibs library set and applications using the libraries (fig2vect is one of them). The *-dev-*.exe file is significantly larger than the *-user-*.exe file.

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.pdf contains additional information.

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/appdefaults¹ file.
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.

¹	$sysconfdir is the system configuration directory, typically /etc or /usr/local/etc.