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