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 ViewIt 0.5
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This is the first release of the ViewIt application.

ViewIt is an application to display document content. It is intended
to be used as a previewer (like Apples Preview.app) for various documents.
Currently images and PDF documents are supported but the architecture
is designed in a modular way so that it should be easy to add other
document types.

ViewIt is developed by Stefan Kleine Stegemann. It is released under
the GNU GPL, see COPYING for more information. To render PDF documents
it uses parts of the xpdf application (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)
which is released under the GNU GPL 2. See README and COPYING in
pdfps/xpdf and http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html for more information
about xpdf.

Bug reports, suggestions, code contributions etc. are welcome. Please
send them me directly: 
Stefan Kleine Stegemann <stefan@wms-network.de>

The homepage of this project is located at:
http://mac.wms-network.de/gnustep/viewit/index.html


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Some notes about installation:

Build and install is done in the usual way, simple type 'make' and
'make install'. Note that the pdf (and later the ps) rendering part
is outsourced in a separate library (libpdfps). This has been done
because i think that this part may be useful for other applications
as well (however, this might not be true for the current state of
this library, but in some day ...).

Since the pdfps rendering part is outsourced in a separate library
(located under pdfps in the root directory) it is not possible to
run the Application from the build directory without installation
unless you append /your-path-to-viewit-build/pdfps/obj to your 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. 
