Box should become for vector graphics, what latex became for writing scientific documents.
Installation:
To compile the sources and install on your machine you may proceed
with the quite usual sequence:
./configure --with-cairo
make
make install
Detailed installation instructions are available inside the file INSTALL
in this same directory. The '--with-cairo' flag enables detection and
usage of the Cairo 2D graphic library. Be sure to have this library
installed on your system: this is not mandatory, but will give you some
more features (see later section).
If you want a local installation, you may proceed as follows:
./configure --prefix=/home/yourusername/local --with-cairo
make
make install
Your system won't know where to find the Box executable.
Therefore you may put a line such as
export PATH=$PATH:~/local/bin
at the end of your bashrc file (which is a hidden file in your home
directory: ~/.bashrc). This last modification is not needed. It just
makes life easier.
Test
After installation, you may run some tests to see if the compilation
suceeded. Just type:
make check
You should get a final message such as:
0 errors found.
All tests performed led to success.
...
Cairo library
You can now compile Box with support for the Cairo 2D graphic library.
Cairo gives support for some more output terminals (PDF, SVG, PNG, PS)
and is going to be well exploited in the next Box releases, giving it
many cool features. Be sure to compile Box with the '--with-cairo' flag.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The main focus of this release has been to fix bugs in both the compiler and the GUI.
· Small improvements were also made.
· For Box, BBox now sets (rather than extending) the bounding box.
· The way the bounding box was handled in the Clip command was fixed.
· Improvements were made in the memory management of Box.
· Handling of FillStyle was fixed (it was ignored by Style).
· For Boxer, the Box output view was fixed: it did not expand correctly with some versions of PyGTK.
· Some small improvements were made in the documentation browser.
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