Cirkuit

Description

Cirkuit is a KDE4 interface for LaTeX graphic tools (such as TikZ, Gnuplot, Circuit Macros) to produce publication-ready pictures.

Cirkuit can also be used as a GUI for Circuit macros by Dwight Aplevich, which is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents. Cirkuit builds a live preview of the source code and can export the resulting images in various formats. Cirkuit supports also live preview of TikZ and Gnuplot sources.

Source code

Cirkuit source code is now hosted on git.kde.org. The project homepage is http://projects.kde.org/cirkuit.

Requirements

To run this application you need to have the following applications installed:

• latex
• m4
• gs
• dvips
• epstopdf
• ps2eps

On Debian-based systems (e.g. Ubuntu/Kubuntu) type the following command to install the required apps:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pstricks texlive-base-bin texlive-extra-utils preview-latex-style m4 ghostscript pdf2svg

To build Cirkuit you need CMake and the KDE4 and Qt4 dev packages. To install them on Debian-based systems, type

sudo apt-get install cmake kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libpoppler-qt4

Packages are also available for Arch Linux (in AUR).

To build the application from source, follow the usual KDE4/CMake procedure:

tar xzvf cirkuit-x.y.z.tar.gz cd cirkuit-x.y.z mkdir build cd build cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=kde4-config --prefix make sudo make install