Prerequisites

  • Compilation and execution of JaxoDraw requires an installed and configured Java environment. The Java version has to be 1.4.1 or greater. If you only want to run JaxoDraw without doing any Java development yourself, you just need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). If you want to compile JaxoDraw yourself from sources, you will need a Standard Developer Kit (SDK, which includes a JRE).

    We do not guarantee that the program compiles or runs with any earlier version or any other compiler (but we would like to hear from people who have succeeded to compile and run it on different systems).

    Note in particular that JaxoDraw does not run or compile with GNU's java compiler gcj which is installed by default on many Linux distributions.

    The Java Developer Kit and Runtime Environment are free software and may be obtained from SUN's web pages Please refer to SUN's Java documentation for information on how to install and configure the Java environment on your system.

  • In order to profit from the LaTeX export file format, you need (apart from a working LaTeX distribution) an axodraw4j.sty file. This can be obtained from our download pages, but you have to install it on your system independently of JaxoDraw as described in the User Guide. The axodraw4j package is almost identical to J.Vermaseren's axodraw package, please refer to the axodraw user guide for documentation on the package.
  • For using the Postscript preview option of JaxoDraw, one has to specify an external Postscript viewer.