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Tcl/Tk
Since XStick is written in Tcl/Tk, you're going to need to
aquire and install Tcl/Tk to get started. Scriptics is
maintaining the language these days, and you'll need at least
version 8.0 for your platform. Full details on installation for
various platforms can be found on Scriptics site. I've been using 8.0.5,
which is not the latest, greatest, but it is very stable.
This link
should get you to right place at Scriptics.
Ghostview
You'll need ghostview, or something similar to print the EPS output from
XStick(TM).
The actual installation of ghostview I'll leave to it's docs.
Most contempory Linux distributions come with Ghostview already setup. The
Ghostview homepage is
here.
XStick
XStick is all zipped up with it's own subdirectories. You can pretty much
put it anywhere, as it assumes all it's own files are relative to it's
home. If you setup an icon in Windows, be sure to specify the correct
working directory. The actual executable is xstick.tcl, which in turn
loads all the files in the "lib" subdirectory. I broke the code up into
seperate files as it is over 6000 lines now and getting a little tough to
maintain as one file. On the Mac, you'll want to drop this file onto the
Tcl/Tk Drag & Drop Tclets app to make an executable file/icon. I've been
calling the app XStick. I've also found you will want to change the
memory allocation for the XStick app from 4096 to 8192 in File | Get Info
| Memory | Preferred Size. Otherwise I've found the application crashes
when calling up the defaults editor or the color chooser.
XStick Font
Depending on your platform, you may need the XStick
font in both Truetype and Postscript Type 1 formats. Linux/Unix uses
postscript for both the screen display and printing, while Windows
and the Mac use Truetype for the display. (The Mac can use postscript, but
I had little success getting nice smooth fonts on the display, even with
ATM). All my cross-platform font fine-tuning used TrueType on both Windows
and the Mac. If you are using Ghostview to manipulate your printed
output, you'll need the postscript font for it.
Windows:
Assuming you've installed XStick under C:\XStick, do the following:
Open the:
Select:
Linux:
If you want to do the install manually, here are the steps (You will need
to be the root user. This is assuming you installed XStick in the /opt
directory.):
Using the editor of your choice (vi, pico etc.) edit the file
/usr/X11/lib/fonts/Type1/fonts.scale and add an entry for the
xstick font like this:
Also increase the number in the first line of the file by one.
You may need to restart X before the fonts are available.
For Mandriva Linux, you can use drakfont:
(X restart should not be necessary, xfs is restarted by drakfont)
MacOS:
Open the XStick folder wherever you placed it after unzipping it. Open the
fonts folder and open "XStickMacFont.zip" and holding the "Option" key, drag and
drop the XStick font into your system folder. In my case, I needed to restart
MacOs before I could use the font. You want the little suitcase font with
the "TT" on it.
Ghostview
The procedure for ghostview is much like Linux. Wherever your ghostview
installation ended up, there should be a fonts directory. (Or on Linux it
will be somewhere like /usr/local/lib/ghostscript. Copy the xstick.pfb
file into the fonts directory under ghostview. Now find a file name
"Fontmap". You will need
to edit this file and add the following line somewhere under the "actual
fonts" section:
/Xstick (xstick.pfb) ;
On most of the installs I've seen, this "Fontmap" file is both in the
root ghostview directory and the "fonts" directory. To be safe, it's
probably wise to edit both.
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