Re: [PPower4] Installation of ppower4 with Windows XP
Dear Gianfranko, thank you. I think I have the JRE on my machine, but I did not think about running it from DOS. I will try. Best wishes, Felix. gianfranco wrote: dear Felix, to run ppower4 yuo need JRE (java runtime environment) installed on your PC. If you haven't this installed download the latest version from the sun's web site, istall it and add the bin folder to your path (to set the path start-setting-system-environment variables or samething like that.). Now from the dos prompt you shold be able to run the java command. I'm a linux user, so I'm not familiar with .bat files. Anyway under linux I'm able to run pp4 like this java -jar pp4p.jar inputfile.pdf outputfile.pdf I'm confident you can run pp4 typing the same string to the dos prompt. good luck Gianfranco Il ven, 2005-01-14 alle 22:27, Felix Lazebnik ha scritto: Recently I learned how to use pdfscreen for computer presentation. The document for it suggests to use ppower4 for the post processing. I have been using latex for a long time. Preparing .pdf file for pdfscreen creates no problem for me. It seems that \pause is a very useful command. In general, the demo from the ppower4 page looks fantastic... I have difficulties installing ppower4. I use Windows XP system. I dounloaded * o |pause.sty| http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/pause.sty o |background.sty| http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/background.sty o |pp4link.sty| http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/pp4link.sty o |mpmulti.sty| http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/mpmulti.sty o |texpause.sty| http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/texpause.sty o |pp4slide.sty| http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/pp4slide.sty |pp4p.jar| http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/pp4p.jar and keep them in the same directory as my pdfscreen files are. But probably it is wrong... Where do I put all these files? Also, how do I create the file ppower4.bat and where exactly I have to make changes in my Path? Do I need to downloaded vlatex? I am afraid that I already asked too many question... Thank you, Felix Lazebnik.
Re: [PPower4] installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use ppower4. I think this link will help you in installing pp4... http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/
Re: [PPower4] installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I would like to use ppower4. I am using RedHat Linux system, but I do not have authority to install something as a super user. This may be hard, if a current version of Java is not installed. If possible, I would like to install just on my home directory and use it only myself. See the general documentation about the TeX directory structure and the search path philosophy, to learn about setting up user defined additions for an installed TeX base (I assume that there is a TeX package installed on your system). I do not have much experience to install, especially, Tex related package. PPower4 is not only TeX related, it is Java related as well. The system that I am using doe not contain foil.tex. Is it not possible to use slides instead of using foils? If not, please tell me what I need to do. PPower4 is not related to any specific package for creating slides/foils. If you are used to create your slides with LaTeX, you can continue to do so and just add some additional commands for the incremental build of pages. Foils/foiltex is just the package that we had selected before PPower4 was created. The only reason you might need the foiltex/foils style is to rerun the examples from the Web page. You can find foiltex.dtx on CTAN. Do not search for foils.sty! Enjoy, Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
[PPower4] installation
Hi, I would like to use ppower4. I am using RedHat Linux system, but I do not have authority to install something as a super user. If possible, I would like to install just on my home directory and use it only myself. I do not have much experience to install, especially, Tex related package. It would be really helpful if someone can give me some information how to install the things that allow me to use ppower4. The system that I am using doe not contain foil.tex. Is it not possible to use slides instead of using foils? If not, please tell me what I need to do. Thank you.
Re: [PPower4] Installation ?
Pieter Thysebaert writes: 2. I can't seem to run the .jar ... What arguments are needed ? I get this : Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from /mnt/pie-win98/Apps/linux/tgz/pdftex/ppower4/pp4p.jar when starting the ppower4p script How do I fix this ? (it doesn't seem right) Calling the script without arguments should tell you File arguments are missing. PPower4 [-v|-n|-h|-V|--verbose=n|--nocompress|--help|--version] infile outfile If the JRE cannot find the Main-Class mainfest, it looks like you have a corrupted jar file. Please check the file size. You may also try to list the contents of the jar file with the command jar tvf /mnt/pie-win98/Apps/linux/tgz/pdftex/ppower4/pp4p.jar There should be no need to get a newer version of the JRE than 1.2.x just for running PPower4. Klaus -- Klaus Guntermann[EMAIL PROTECTED] FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt Wilhelminenstr. 7, D-64283 Darmstadt
[PPower4] Installation ?
Hi...
I'm kinda new to ppower4...
Well to be honest I'm not very familiar with Latex yet...
I am running RedHat Linux 6.1 and tried to install ppower4 (the latest
version I believe, some beta 5 of september 2000 ?)
I have jdk 1.2.2 by Sun.
1. I've read somewhere that it needs pdflatex = 13.0d (or something)
pdflatex -v shows :
pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d
I assume that's ok ? (so I probably meant 0.13d)
2. I can't seem to run the .jar ...
What arguments are needed ?
I get this :
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
/mnt/pie-win98/Apps/linux/tgz/pdftex/ppower4/pp4p.jar
when starting the ppower4p script
How do I fix this ? (it doesn't seem right)
3. More of a tex question ...
I installed all the .sty files related to ppower4 in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ppower4
(the docs talked about the tex/latex/ppower4 dir)
How do I setup pdflatex to see this directory ?
(usepackage{pause} doesn't find it automatically so I always have to
specify the full path to it on the command line)
Pieter
AW: [PPower4] Installation ?
Hi Pieter,
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Betreff: [PPower4] Installation ?
1. I've read somewhere that it needs pdflatex = 13.0d (or something)
pdflatex -v shows :
pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d
I assume that's ok ? (so I probably meant 0.13d)
I'm not sure about 13 or 14 but it definitely is version 0.x and not x.0
3. More of a tex question ...
I installed all the .sty files related to ppower4 in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ppower4
(the docs talked about the tex/latex/ppower4 dir)
How do I setup pdflatex to see this directory ?
(usepackage{pause} doesn't find it automatically so I always have to
specify the full path to it on the command line)
you will have to run texhash in order to update the ls-R database
that is searched. Before doing so you might want to change the
installation location of the ppower4 sty-files to be in the
localtexmf tree.
Andreas
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Re: [PPower4] Installation ?
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Karel Dekimpe wrote:
Pieter Thysebaert wrote:
Hi...
I'm kinda new to ppower4...
Well to be honest I'm not very familiar with Latex yet...
I am running RedHat Linux 6.1 and tried to install ppower4 (the latest
version I believe, some beta 5 of september 2000 ?)
I have jdk 1.2.2 by Sun.
1. I've read somewhere that it needs pdflatex = 13.0d (or something)
pdflatex -v shows :
pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d
I assume that's ok ? (so I probably meant 0.13d)
2. I can't seem to run the .jar ...
What arguments are needed ?
I get this :
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
/mnt/pie-win98/Apps/linux/tgz/pdftex/ppower4/pp4p.jar
when starting the ppower4p script
How do I fix this ? (it doesn't seem right)
3. More of a tex question ...
I installed all the .sty files related to ppower4 in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ppower4
(the docs talked about the tex/latex/ppower4 dir)
How do I setup pdflatex to see this directory ?
(usepackage{pause} doesn't find it automatically so I always have to
specify the full path to it on the command line)
Pieter
2.
Concerning the ppower4 question.
Please provide more details on your script and what you type in
at the prompt and what the machine exactly answers.
the script ppower4p :
#!/bin/sh # NOTE: this requires Java 1.2.x!
basedir=/mnt/pie-win98/Apps/linux/tgz/pdftex/ppower4
java -jar ${basedir}/pp4p.jar "$@"
Just running this without arguments gives :
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
/mnt/pie-win98/Apps/linux/tgz/pdftex/ppower4/pp4p.jar
Pieter
