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Getting Started With Fugenschnitzer

Windows

Installing And Running The Program

• Fugenschnitzer requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package.
• • Alternative: Microsoft Visual C++ Front Page, look for Downloads.
• Install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package before running Fugenschnitzer.
• Download the Fugenschnitzer installation package for Windows.
• Run the installer by double-clicking the package. Follow the installation wizard to install Fugenschnitzer.
• After successfull installation a Fugenschnitzer start menu and desktop link is created. Have fun!
• Experienced users: If you use the ZIP package, run seamcarv.exe.

Program Help

Fugenschnitzer offers context help; furthermore, the user manual is included as a help file.

• To see a description of a button or input/display field click the ? and then on the button/input/display field to explain.
• To open the user manual click Help or press F1 on the keyboard.

Uninstalling

If you like to uninstall Fugenschnitzer, open Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel. There you can find a link to uninstall Fugenschnitzer.

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Mac

Installing And Running The Program

• Download the Fugenschnitzer installation package for Mac OS X.
• Open the installation package by double-clicking it, if this isn't done automatically.
• In the package you find the Readme and license document, furthermore the Fugenschnitzer application and an alias of your system's Applications folder.
  • You may now run Fugenschnitzer on trial without installing by double-clicking it.
  • For installing, drag the Fugenschnitzer application on the Applications folder.
• After installing, you can find the Fugenschnitzer in the Finder under Applications. Have fun!
• Experienced users: You can save download time and space if you use the Intel or PowerPC version.

Hilfe zum Programm

Fugenschnitzer offers context help; furthermore, the user manual is included as HTML help.

• To see a description of a button or input/display field press Help on the keyboard, then click the button/input/display field to explain.
• To open the user manual click Help or press ⌘ F1 on the keyboard.

Uninstalling

If you like to uninstall Fugenschnitzer, simply remove it from the Applications folder.

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Linux and other platforms

As a cross-platform version, Fugenschnitzer is available as Python program. More exactly: The Windows and Mac version are stand-alone versions of this Python program.

Prerequisites

Fugenschnitzer requires

• Python 2.6: http://www.python.org/download/ (2.5 works, too, but 2.6 is better),
• wxPython 2.8.9: http://www.wxpython.org/download.php.

About installing wxPython on Debian/Ubuntu Linux, see wxPython-Wiki.

Running The Program

To launch the program, run seamcarv.py. You can do this on

• GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and other unixoide systems by entering

  > ./seamcarv.py

  in the shell in the directory Fugenschnitzer is located in. If it doesn't work, you may either need to
  • set the “executable” access right by chmod +x seamcarv.py or
  • adjust the path after the shebang #! in seamcarv.py or
  • install Python
  or several of these.
• Windows in the most simple case by double-clicking it in the Explorer, else in the windows command line shell CMD by

  > python seamcarv.py

  . If the python command appears not to be available, you may need to register the directory containing python.exe and pythonw.exe in the PATH environment variable. Therefore, see System Properties in the Control Panel.

The Fugenschnitzer Program Library

The Fugenschnitzer application program uses the Fugenschnitzer program library. It contains the actual Seam Carving implementation.
The Fugenschnitzer program library is shipped with the application program as a library binary file for each Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux:

• seamcarv.dll for Windows,
• seamcarv.dylib for Mac OS X (“fat” i386 & PowerPC binary),
• libseamcarv.so for GNU/Linux (i386).

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