Requirements

WinFIG on Windows

WinFIG 3.x or older

• Windows 95 or higher. Windows 95 was not tested. Some users reported it works, while others had problems.

WinFIG 4.x

• Windows 2000 or higher. It may work on older systems, but I never tested.

Both

• The Visual Studio redistributable package may be needed on some systems. See the installation page for more info. You can get it here.
• Exporting to PDF or bitmap formats (PNG, JPEG etc.) requires a GhostScript installation. See the "Links" page for where to get GhostScript. GIF requires ppmquant, which you can get as part of the netpbm package. See the "Links" page too.
• For preview of LaTeX formatted texts you need a TeX installation. I tested with MiKTeX 2.7. You also need GhostScript.
• For preview of EPS objects you need a GhostScript installation. I tested with AFPL ghostscript version 8.53 and GPL GhostScript 8.64

WinFIG on Linux

I developed and tested on Ubuntu Linux 9 (Jaunty Jackalope) and 10 (Lucid Lynx). I also tested on openSUSE 11.3 and on Debian 5 (Lenny). The latter required manually installing the Qt libraries. WinFIG probably runs on other versions too if the following is requirements are met:

• WinFIG depends on Qt libraries version 4.5 or higher. Current XUbuntu and KUbuntu distributions come with Qt 4.6. Debian 6 (Wheezy) offers Qt 4.6.3 as an option via the Synaptic package manager. In case Qt is not installed or not current enough, use your package manager to install libqtgui4 or execute:

  sudo aptitude install libqtgui4

  This should also install libqtcore4 as a dependency. But make sure it installs at least version 4.5. Under Debian 5 (Lenny) for instance it only installs Qt version 4.4.3 libraries. In that case go to Nokias download page and download and install the Qt SDK for Linux there. It comes with compiled libraries. You actually need the follwowing libraries from the Qt framework:

• libQtCore.so
• libQtGui.so
• For preview of LaTeX formatted texts you need a TeX installation. I tested with TexLive Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6). You also need GhostScript.

WinFIG on Mac OS

I developed and tested on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) on a Mac Mini (Intel). These are the requirements:

• WinFIG depends on Qt libraries version 4.7 or higher. A setup package is provided by Nokia following this link: Cocoa: Mac binary package for Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.6 (32-bit and 64-bit).
• For preview of LaTeX formatted texts you need a TeX installation. I tested with MacTeX (which is actually TeX Live plus additions)
• You also need GhostScript for LaTeX preview as well as for exporting to PDF and bitmap formats.