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The gxhconvert script does not perform conversions itself, it just runs the appropriate programs and provides command line arguments to them.
The software packages listed below are required.

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Perl

Homepage:	http://www.perl.org
Programs used here:	perl

On Linux systems Perl is typically available as package.
For Windows there are different Perl distributions out there, I recommend to use Strawberry Perl.

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DK tools and libraries

Homepage:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/dktools Source code, Windows executable setup
Programs used here:	bitmap2pp, fig2lat

On Linux you should compile the package yourself.
For Windows there are executable installers available on the SourceForge project page.

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Inkscape 0.48.x or above

Homepage:	https://inkscape.org/
Download:	↑ Source code, Windows executable setup
Programs used here:	inkscape

On Linux systems Inkscape is typically available as package.
Binary installers for Windows are available from the inkscape homepage.

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LaTeX distribution

You can use a LaTeX distribution of your choice. I use TexLive http://tug.org/ on Linux and Solaris and MikTeX http://www.miktex.org/ on Windows, but these are just my personal preferences.
On modern Linux systems you can install "texlive-*" packages using the package management.

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Gnuplot 4.6.x or above

Homepage:	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/
Download:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/
Programs used here:	gnuplot

On Linux systems Gnuplot is typically available as package.
Binary installers for Windows are available from the Gnuplot downloads page.

Install LaTeX files for tikz terminal:
After installing Gnuplot you will find a /usr/local/gnuplotx.y.z/share/texmf/tex directory. Copy the contents of this directory into the new /data/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot directory, create the directory if necessary.
Don not forget to rebuild the LaTeX file name database:

mktexlsr

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NetPBM

Homepage:	http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
Download:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/ Source code
Programs used here:	pngtopnm, pngtopam, pnmtopng, pnmtojpeg, pnmquant, ppmtowinicon, ppmtoxpm, jpegtopnm, tifftopnm

On Linux systems NetPBM is typically available as package.
In some distributions (Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives) the NetPBM package contents is not up to date. Users of these distributions should install a more recent version from source.
NetPBM software for Windows is included in Cygwin.

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Poppler or Xpdf (or both)

Homepage:	http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
Programs used here:	pdftops, pdftoppm

On Linux systems poppler/xpdf is typically available as package.
Poppler/xpdf software for Windows is included in Cygwin.

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Ghostscript

Homepage:	http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Download:	↑ Source code, Windows executable setup
Programs used here:	ps2pdf

On Linux systems Ghostscript is typically available as package.
An executable setup for windows is available from the downloads page.

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Optipng

Homepage:	http://optipng.sourceforge.net/
Download:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/optipng/ Source code
Programs used here:	optipng

On Linux systems poppler/xpdf is typically available as package.
An executable setup for windows is available from the downloads page.

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Pngnq

Homepage:	http://pngnq.sourceforge.net/
Download:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/pngnq/ Source code
Programs used here:	pngnq

On some Linux systems pngnq is available as package.
Pngnq software for Windows is included in Cygwin.

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Pdf2svg

Homepage:	http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/opensource/pdf2svg/
Download:	↑ Source code
GIT download:	https://github.com/db9052/pdf2svg/
Windows downloads:	https://github.com/jalios/pdf2svg-windows/
Programs used here:	pdf2svg

On some Linux systems pdf2svg is available as package.
An executable setup for windows is available from the downloads page.

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