[OS X TeX] OT: Autotrace

[Stephen Moye]

On Mar 13, 2007, at 6:00 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 13 mars 07 à 10:52, Stephen Moye a écrit :
>
>> On Mar 12, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>>
>>> This is another hint that pstoedit is missing.
>>
>> Even after reinatalling pstoedit I get the same errors. Hmmmm....
>
> Did you install all the i-Packages corresponding to the  
> dependencies of autotrace? There seem to be a fair number of them  
> (pstoedit, ImageMagick, libpng, FreeType). From the ReadMe of the  
> autotrace i-Package:
>
> 2006/04/27:
> • Linked dynamically against pstoedit
> 2006/04/20:
> • Linked dynamically against ImageMagick 2.6.2-8 (libMagick.10.dylib)
> 2006/04/06:
> • Linked statically against libpng-1.2.8.
> 2006/02/28:
> • Check for availability of required X11 install
> 2006/01/25:
> • First fat release (i386 and ppc).
> 2006/01/01:
> • Recompiled against ImageMagick 6.2.5-5. Tell autotrace i-Package  
> it depends on libMagick.9.dylib instead of libMagick.6.dylib
> 2005/07/04:
> • Tell autotrace i-Package it depends on libfreetype.6.dylib  
> instead of libfreetype.dylib
> • Autotrace 0.31.1 contains a broken test in configure for the  
> version of ImageMagick. I have worked around this bug.
>
> That said, personally I find the output of potrace more  
> satisfactory than that of autotrace.

I am inclined to agree, even if only because trying to get autotrace  
to work has already taken --way-- too much time.

Thank you, everyone, for your assistance. Back to work!

Stephen Moye


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