Tioga Tioga is a Ruby library for creating figures and plots with high quality text and graphics in PDF format.
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Tioga is a Ruby library for creating figures and plots with high quality text and graphics in PDF format. Tioga is a Ruby library for creating figures and plots with high quality text and graphics in PDF format. Text is processed directly by TeX (not an emulation), and the graphics covers a broad range of PDF features including images, curves, clipping, and transparency.The Tioga project is based on Ruby and PDFLaTeX. You can checkout the project page for downloads, mailing lists and various news.How to install Tioga ?How can we install this wonderful piece of software that is Tioga ?? You first should make sure you have ruby, with a fairly recent version (at least 1.8.2, I am told) and pdftex (after 1.11).You should also make sure you have the zlib library and especially the development packages (for instance, on debian, you'll need for instance the zlib1g-dev).Afterwards, you grab the newest archive on the rubyforge dowloads page and here you go. In what's following, I'll suppose you downloaded the tioga-1.5.tar.gz file. Run the following commands; first, extract the archive:tar xvzf tioga-1.5.tar.gzcd tioga-1.5Then, depending on whether you have administrator privileges, you can try either (with administrator privileges)./QUICK_INSTALLor, if you don't have administrator privileges, or don't want to use them, you can install tioga to your home directory with the following:./HOME_INSTALLOne thing: in the latter case, you need to make sure to add in your shell configuration file (.bashrc, for instance) the following line, so that Ruby can find Tioga:export RUBYLIB=$HOME/lib/ruby:$RUBYLIBMoreover, you'll need to make sure that $HOME/bin is in your path if you want to use the tioga executable.Both these methods run tests of tioga, and an output in the spirit ofThis is the test suite for Tioga 1.5Loaded suite ts_TiogaStarted....................................................................compressed from 0 to 8compressed from 13 to 21compressed from 70 to 69compressed from 3631 to 1642. >>> NOTE: please look at tests/Icon_Test.pdf and compare it to samples/Icon.pdf...........Finished in 1.59933 seconds.80 tests, 726 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errorsis a good sign that everything happened fine.Alternatively, for rubygem users, you simply can use the following:gem install tiogaFinally, please note that there is a debian package, so debian users can install tioga withapt-get install tioga

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