Three Ques.

[Joel Biddier]

I have been working on the installation and fonts doc and have a few 
questions:


1. Does Skencil require Ghostscript for any function (outside of the PS 
Type 1 fonts)?

2. In general, what exactly is the function of PIL for Skencil?

3. Is libpng required for the placement of png files?



My progress so far :

(1)
Finished the compiling PIL (v 1.1.4) section  for Solaris 8 (revised) 
and SuSE 9.2 (which does not include a PIL rpm as of this version!).  
The process is different for Unix and Linux. Note that I used the old  
manual installation  method ("make -f <file> boot" and "make") - I don't 
assume "setup.py" works (and in the case of Solaris it does not work as 
indicated. In addition, the "setup.py" script does not seem to save any 
time from the overall configuration and installation  process - at least 
for me. I may add a section for which the "setup.py" script is used. But 
for now I will only use the method I know works.).

(2)
Worked out the std.sfd and alias.sfd files for SuSE 9.2 (can now access 
all the SuSE pre-installed Type 1 fonts - X11 and Ghostscript) and ready 
to document it. (the Solaris 8 std.sfd and alias.sfd section is already 
done - X11 only. I may add a Ghostscript alternative section, though.).

(Note)
As indicated above, I am documenting SuSE 9.2 (and not 8.2 as previously 
stated). I also moved RedHat 8 to Fedora C2/3. I thought it better to 
work with the latest versions of the OSs for the documentation - it will 
give each document a longer life span.


--J