Pixmaped

1. SYNOPSIS
2. REQUIREMENTS
3. INSTALLATION
4. COPYRIGHT
5. NOTES


1. SYNOPSIS

Pixmaped is a program for producing simple xpm files (pixmaps) and gif images,
for example icons. Although the gimp is available for sophisticated work,
for small images Pixmaped should be a lot simpler to use.

Pixmaped works with X and Win32.

On-line help is provided - start up the program and click the Help menu option
or press F1. (Reading what's there will help!)

Pixmaped has full undo, and is mostly feature-complete. If you have
Image::Magick.pm Pixmaped will read/write all the formats that ImageMagick
supports.

See CHANGES for fixes and features.


2. REQUIREMENTS

Optional modules (from CPAN) it is highly recommended that you have one of
these, preferably Image::Magick:

GD.pm
Image::Magick.pm

Linux and X-Windows:
Perl 5.004
Tk 4 or 8 

Win32:
Perl 5.005
Tk 800.000

~250K disk space.


3. INSTALLATION

Note that Pixmaped can be installed pretty well anywhere - the only restriction
is that all the pixmaped* files must be together in the same directory.

# Create the directory.
mkdir /opt/pixmaped

# Copy the tar.gz to the opt directory.
cp pixmaped-VERSION.tar.gz /opt

# Change to the directory.
cd /opt

# Unpack the archive using method A or B:
# Method A for those using GNU tar
tar xvfz pixmaped-VERSION.tar.gz
# Method B for those not using GNU tar
gunzip pixmaped-VERSION.tar.gz
tar xvf pixmaped-VERSION.tar

# Change to the pixmaped directory.
cd pixmaped

# Rename main file.
mv pixmaped.in pixmaped

# This is optional. Make sure pixmaped is executable.
chmod +x pixmaped

# If this is an upgrade from a previous version and you're not using Win32
# then keep your options.
mv ~/.pixmaped-opts ~/.pixmapedrc

# This is optional. For Debian users only: if you want pixmaped to appear on
# your X menu do the following:
cp debian-menu /etc/menu/pixmaped
update-menus
# Note that the name of the file supplied, 'debian-menu', is changed in the
# move to 'pixmaped'. Note also that if you haven't used the paths given here you
# must change the command path in /etc/menu/pixmaped. The addition to the menu
# will only appear when the window manager is restarted.

# This is optional. To have the icon appear under X for icewm do this:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icewm/icons/
ln -s /opt/pixmaped/pixmaped-icon-16x16.xpm pixmaped_16x16.xpm
ln -s /opt/pixmaped/pixmaped-icon-16x16.xpm pixmaped_32x32.xpm
# and add the following line to /etc/X11/icewm/winoptions
pixmaped.icon: pixmaped

# To run Pixmaped from the command line:
/opt/pixmaped/pixmaped &

# You could always either alias this or use a soft link to a directory on the
# path to save typing the whole path. Note that 'deprecated' error messages
# which appear are harmless and can be ignored - these only occur under Tk 4.


4. COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) Mark Summerfield 1999. All Rights Reserved.
Pixmaped may be used/distributed under the GPL.

Contact: <summer@chest.ac.uk> - please include 'pixmaped' in the
subject line. 


5. NOTES

Pixmaped was developed because I found gimp too powerful and sophisticated for
my needs - I just wanted something quick and easy for knocking out small
images, e.g. icons and small gifs with transparency for web work.

The program was developed under Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 and 2.1.

