[LON-CAPA-dev] New libraries, etc - need to install for CVS Head

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

This is forwarded on behalf of Thomas Onken:

Enable PDF-Forms in LON-CAPA

First you need to install the AcroTeX-education bundle from ctan.

Get the package and unzip it:

     [root@loncapa ]# wget http://tug.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/acrotex.zip
     [root@loncapa ]# unzip acrotex.zip

go into the acrotex-folder and install

     [root@loncapa ]# cd acrotex
     [root@loncapa acrotex]# latex acrotex.ins

Now move the folder acrotex file into the latex path. You can easly  
find it by searching for "cite.sty" or some other tex-packages.

     [root@loncapa /]# locate cite.sty
     /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cite/cite.sty
     /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cite/drftcite.sty
     /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cite/overcite.sty
     On CentOS5 the latex path is: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/

     [root@loncapa acrotex]# cd ..
     [root@loncapa ]# mv acrotex /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/

Remove the acrotex.zip

     [root@loncapa]# rm acrotex.zip

After that you must rehash tex:

     [root@loncapa ]# texhash

Now you are able to print PDF with Forms (Radiobutton-, Comboboxes-,  
Textfield based problems).

The second thing to do is to enable the Upload-script lonpdfupload.pm.  
Before you can use it you have to install CAM::PDF for perl. It is  
available on CPAN so you can use the perl –MCPAN -eshell.

     [root@loncapa ~]# perl -MCPAN -eshell

     cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7602)
     ReadLine support enabled

     cpan>install CAM::PDF
     (…follow installation and also install the dependencies)
     cpan>exit

Next you need to copy the upload-script from CVS to the LON-CAPA  
Apache folder.

     [root@loncapa ~]# cp [your-cvs-folder]/loncom/interface/ 
lonpdfupload.pm /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/

Now restart httpd:
     [root@loncapa ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart