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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+
+  <!ENTITY potrace-download-http "https://sourceforge.net/projects/potrace/files/&potrace-version;/potrace-&potrace-version;.tar.gz">
+  <!ENTITY potrace-download-ftp       " ">
+  <!ENTITY potrace-md5sum             "60cecdaa9d14e0008f96b68dce77d246">
+  <!ENTITY potrace-size               "636 KB">
+  <!ENTITY potrace-buildsize          "7.5 MB (including tests)">
+  <!ENTITY potrace-time               "less than 0.1 SBU (including tests)">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="potrace" xreflabel="Potrace-&potrace-version;">
+  <?dbhtml filename="potrace.html"?>
+
+  <sect1info>
+    <othername>$LastChangedBy: bdubbs $</othername>
+    <date>$Date: 2017-08-06 20:49:36 +0100 (Sun, 06 Aug 2017) $</date>
+  </sect1info>
+
+  <title>Potrace-&potrace-version;</title>
+
+  <indexterm zone="potrace">
+    <primary sortas="a-Potrace">Potrace</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <sect2 role="package">
+    <title>Introduction to Potrace</title>
+
+    <para>
+      <!-- summarized from the home page, where Potrace(TM) is used -->
+      <application>Potrace&#8482;</application> is a tool for transforming a bitmap
+       (PBM, PGM, PPM, or BMP format) into one of several vector file formats.
+    </para>
+
+    &lfs80_checked;
+    &gcc7_checked;
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&potrace-download-http;"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&potrace-download-ftp;"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download MD5 sum: &potrace-md5sum;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Download size: &potrace-size;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Estimated disk space required: &potrace-buildsize;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Estimated build time: &potrace-time;
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Potrace Dependencies</bridgehead>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
+    <para role="recommended">
+      <xref linkend="llvm"/> (including <command>clang</command>).
+    </para>
+
+    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
+      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/potrace"/>
+    </para>
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="installation">
+    <title>Installation of Potrace</title>
+
+    <para>
+      Install <application>Potrace</application> by running the following
+      commands:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr                        \
+            --disable-static                     \
+            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/potrace-&potrace-version; \
+            --enable-a4                          \
+            --enable-metric                      \
+            --with-libpotrace                    &amp;&amp;
+make</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      To run the test suite, issue: <command>make check</command>.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+    </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="commands">
+    <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para>
+      <parameter>--enable-a4</parameter>: Use A4 as the default paper size.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <!-- american spelling as in the configure script -->
+      <parameter>--enable-metric</parameter>: Use metric units (centimeters)
+      as default
+    </para>
+
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
+
+    <para>
+      <parameter>--with-libpotrace</parameter>: Install the library and headers.
+    </para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="content">
+    <title>Contents</title>
+
+    <segmentedlist>
+      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
+
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>
+          mkbitmap, potrace
+        </seg>
+        <seg>
+          libpotrace.so,
+        </seg>
+        <seg>
+          /usr/share/doc/potrace-&potrace-version;
+        </seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+      <varlistentry id="mkbitmap">
+        <term><command>mkbitmap</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            transforms images into bitmaps with scaling and filtering.
+          </para>
+          <indexterm zone="potrace mkbitmap">
+            <primary sortas="b-mkbitmap">mkbitmap</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="potrace-prog">
+        <term><command>potrace</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            transforms bitmaps into vector graphics.
+          </para>
+          <indexterm zone="potrace potrace-prog">
+            <primary sortas="b-potrace-prog">potrace</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="libpotrace">
+        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpotrace.so</filename></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            is a library for transforming bitmaps into vector graphics
+          </para>
+          <indexterm zone="potrace libpotrace">
+            <primary sortas="c-libpotrace">libpotrace.so</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
