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). It probably runs on other versions too.
The requirements are:

• WinFIG depends on Qt libraries version 4.5 or higher. Current XUbuntu and KUbuntu distributions come with Qt 4.5, but the Debian distribution I tried did not (debian-502-i386-xfce+lxde). It still came with Qt 4.4. In case Qt is not installed or not up to date, use your package manager to install libqtgui4 or execute:

  sudo aptitude install libqtgui4

  This should also install libqtcore4 as a dependency.

• 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.