Re: Installation of ppower4 with Windows XP

Dear Gianfranko,

thank you. I think I have the JRE on my machine, but I did not think 
about running it from DOS.
I will try.

Best wishes,
Felix.

gianfranco wrote:

>dear Felix,
>to run ppower4 yuo need JRE (java runtime environment) installed on your
>PC. 
>If you haven't this installed download the latest version from the sun's
>web site, istall it and add the bin folder to your path 
>(to set the path start->setting->system->environment variables or samething like that.). 
>Now from the dos prompt you shold be able to run the java command.
>I'm a linux user, so I'm not familiar with .bat files. Anyway under
>linux I'm able to run pp4 like this
>
>java -jar pp4p.jar inputfile.pdf outputfile.pdf
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>I'm confident you can run pp4 typing the same string to the dos prompt.
>good luck
>Gianfranco
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>Il ven, 2005-01-14 alle 22:27, Felix Lazebnik ha scritto:
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>>Recently I learned how to use pdfscreen for computer  presentation.
>>The document for it suggests to use ppower4 for the post processing.
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>>I have been using latex for a long time. Preparing .pdf file for pdfscreen 
>>creates no problem for me.
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>>It seems that \pause is a very useful command.
>>In general, the demo from the ppower4 page looks fantastic...
>>
>>I have difficulties installing  ppower4.
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>>I use Windows XP system.  I dounloaded
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>>    *
>>          o |pause.sty|
>>            <http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/pause.sty> 
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>>          o |background.sty|
>>            <http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/background.sty> 
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>>          o |pp4link.sty|
>>            <http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/pp4link.sty> 
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>>          o |mpmulti.sty|
>>            <http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/mpmulti.sty> 
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>>          o |texpause.sty|
>>            <http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/texpause.sty> 
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>>          o |pp4slide.sty|
>>            <http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/pp4slide.sty> 
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>>              |pp4p.jar|
>>      <http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/pp4p.jar>
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>>and keep them in the same directory as my pdfscreen files are.
>>But probably it is wrong...  Where do I put all these files?
>>
>>Also, how do I create the file ppower4.bat  and where   exactly I have 
>>to make changes in my
>>Path?
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>>Do I need to downloaded vlatex?
>>
>>I am afraid that I already asked too many question...
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Felix Lazebnik.
>>
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