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    You may need to select downloading explicitly by using a menu of
    your browser for some of the files (e.g. the jar archives and the
    shell script). Please check the file sizes for the
    jar archives after download before trying to use them. 
    All .zip archives with text files are created with
    CR/LF lineend markers. *n*x users may wish to use an option to
    change that on extraction.
    
    Things you need in any case:
     
      - 
	The style files (a zip
	archive, prepared 12 Sep 2002) for formatting.
 
        If you just need one of the files pick it from here:
		
	Put these style files into your (local) LaTeX tree and update
	the contents cache, if necessary (web2c: mktexlsr). 
	Note for people who have installed the package
	pdfslide: this package is likely to contain an
	outdated version of pause.sty. You should
	remove that one. 
	Another note: the file pdfslide.sty quoted in the
	report has been renamed to pp4slide.sty to avoid
	a name conflict with the abovementioned other package.  
	pp4slide.sty is just meant as an example 
	and not recommended for general use. There are
	some strange effects caused by the somewhat unsupported
	coloring options in foils.cls.
       
      - The complete post processor software in 
pp4p.jar a jar archive (no
	need to unpack it!) version 0.9.4 (prepared 13 Nov 2002,
	285312 bytes). 
	Depending on your operating system you need a batch file or
	script to call the post processor. These scripts require some
	customization to make sure they find the jar file.
		
		  - for Unix: a shell script 
ppower4 to run the software
		    under Unix. It needs to be modified to know the
		    location of your copy of the pp4p.jar
		    file. 
		   
		  - for Windows: a batch file 
ppower4.bat to run the
		  software under Win32. It also needs to be modified
		  to know the location of your copy of the
		  pp4p.jar file and the Java runtime
		  environment. 
		  Thanks to Christophe
		  Declercq for providing this.
		   
		  - for Mac:  There is an applescript for easy
		  usage of ppower4 on Mac OS X to be used with the
		  TeX distribution by Gerben Wierda (it may be
		  necessary to update the post processor and the style
	          files of that distribution). Thanks to Maarten Sneep for
		  this contribution!
		  
 
		 
		 If someone can supply a script for other
		 environments and is willing to share it, I can
		 include it here.
	  
     
    Additional items:
    
      - the sources of the examples (in German or
	English, both zip archives)
	given in the report.
      
 
      - the sources of the demonstration documents (finally) which
	should work with 
latex followed by
	dvipdfm, with  pdflatex and
	with vlatex: 
	
        Note: 1. To process these sources you need to have the packages
  	ifvtex and ifpdf by Heiko Oberdiek
	from
	CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/. 
	2. Some of the documents need two initial runs of
	pdflatex,	vlatex or
	latex to be processed properly. 		
	3. These documents are likely not to to work with previous versions
	of PPower4.
       
      - 
	 Source material
 
         For those who would like to have a look into the processor and the
         PDF library. 
         If you only want to run the program, you do not need all this.
         But to compile the stuff, you have to install first ant for
         controlling the build and JUnit for unit
         tests. 
	 For now we still need some more time to prepare the sources
  	 to work smoothly outside our development environment. If you
	 already got ant and JUnit
	 you can send a mail to request that if you are really
	 in need of this. I am sorry for this delay.
       
     
    
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