1These are collections of "Question and Answers", originally posted to
2autotrace mailing list. Some of these are not "Frequently" but are worth
3to be known.
4
5Q1. Using Windows you type autotrace -help you only see the last 25
6lines, so how could we check that the user can read the whole help
7text? (Martin Weber <martweb@gmx.net>)
8
9A1. For NT-based Windows systems (WinNT, Win2000, XP), it's possible
10to activate scrolling for the console window (DOS prompt). Just do a
11right click on the title bar of the window, -> preferences -> layout,
12and increase the buffer size.  This don't work for Win9x. I don't know
13if it works for WinME. (Manfred Schwarb <manfred.schwarb@gmx.ch>)
14
15Q2. Why configure checks pstoedit twice?
16
17    First you are checking
18    checking for PSTOEDIT - version >= 3.32.1... no
19    and then
20    checking for PSTOEDIT - version >= 3.32.0... yes
21
22    why not
23    checking for PSTOEDIT - version == 3.32.0... yes
24    instead?
25
26    (Martin Weber <martweb@gmx.net>)
27A2. We have to detect one of the three states:
28
29    1. We don't have pstoedit or have pstoedit older than 3.32.
30       -- We should not build pstoedit output functions.
31    2. We have pstoedit 3.32.
32       -- pstoedit-config in 3.32 has some bugs. workaround macros
33	  must be enabled.
34    3. We have pstoedit 3.33. or higher
35       -- The workaround macros must be disabled. I sent patches
36	  that fixes the bugs to the author of pstoedit. So the
37	  pstoedit-config in 3.33 will not have the bugs.
38
39So, configure checks pstoedit twice.
40
41autotrace.m4 has only '>=' version checking. It doesn't have == or >
42version checking. (In other hand, PKG_CHECK_MODULES has such version
43checking.) I don't want to extend autotrace.m4 anymore.  It will cause
44bugs. (Masatake YAMATO<jet@gyve.org>)
45
46Q3. Does autotrace could be built on MacOSX? (Many people)
47A3. Yes. I tested on sourceforge's compilefarm.
48    libtool shows a strange warning but autotrace could
49    be built and run. (Masatake YAMATO<jet@gyve.org>)
50
51Q4. Is there autotrace GUI runs on Windows? Is it possible to port
52    frontline, gnome based GUI, to Windows? (Many people)
53A4. There is no GUI that runs on Windows. frontline highly depends on
54    libgnomeui, so if libgnomeui is ported, porting frontline to
55    windows might be easy task. If you consider to write a GUI for
56    frontline running on Windows, it is worth to consider using
57    Qt. rob@mediasolution.it might have some interests.  Read the
58    archive of autotrace mailing list.  I, the author of frontline, am
59    using GNU/Linux only, so I don't have much interests in porting.
60    (Masatake YAMATO<jet@gyve.org>)
61