In this file:

* What it is
* Common Mistakes
* Debugging
* More Info

What it is
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kdegraphics is a collection of graphic oriented applications:

* kamera: digital camera io_slave for Konquerer. Together gPhoto this
  allows you to access your camara's picture with the URL kamera:/
* kcoloredit: contains two programs: a color value editor and also a color
  picker
* kdvi: program (and embeddable KPart) to display *.DVI files from TeX
* kfax: a program to display raw and tiffed fax images (g3, g3-2d, g4)
* kfaxview: an embeddable KPart to display tiffed fax images
* kfract: a fractal image generator
* kghostview: program (and embeddable KPart) to display *.PDF and *.PS
* kiconedit: an icon editor
* kooka: a raster image scan program, based on SANE and libkscan
* kpaint: a simple pixel oriented image drawing program
* kruler: a ruler in inch, centimeter and pixel to check distances on the
  screen
* kpixmap2bitmap: converts an image into several bitmaps, one for each color.
  Bitmaps can be saved directly as *.xbm, as xpm into *.h or as a QCoord object.

* ksnapshot: make snapshots of the screen contents
* kview: picture viewer, provided as standalone program and embeddable KPart
* pixie: another picture viewer, in some aspects better or faster, but not
  embeddable
* kviewshell: generic framework for viewer applications

This package also contains two more general libraries:

* libkscan: library to access scanners used by kooka (and koffice), needs
  SANE to be used
* libminimagick: filters like in ImageMagick, used by pixie

Common Mistakes
---------------

If configure claims Qt cannot be found, have a look at http://www.troll.no
to get a copy of Qt, version 2.1.0 or newer.

Debugging
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You can use --enable-debug with the configure script, if you want to have
debug code in your KDE apps and libs.  I recommend to do this, since this
is alpha software and this makes debugging things a whole lot easier.

More Info
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Please direct any bug reports to our bug list by visiting
http://bugs.kde.org.

If you have problems compiling and installing this package, contact
me at coolo@kde.org.

General KDE discussions should go to the KDE mailing list (kde@kde.org).

$Id: README,v 1.13 2001/07/15 12:33:47 schurig Exp $
