These are collections of "Question and Answers", originally posted to autotrace mailing list. Some of these are not "Frequently" but are worth to be known. Q1. Using Windows you type autotrace -help you only see the last 25 lines, so how could we check that the user can read the whole help text? (Martin Weber <martweb@gmx.net>) A1. For NT-based Windows systems (WinNT, Win2000, XP), it's possible to activate scrolling for the console window (DOS prompt). Just do a right click on the title bar of the window, -> preferences -> layout, and increase the buffer size. This don't work for Win9x. I don't know if it works for WinME. (Manfred Schwarb <manfred.schwarb@gmx.ch>) Q2. Why configure checks pstoedit twice? First you are checking checking for PSTOEDIT - version >= 3.32.1... no and then checking for PSTOEDIT - version >= 3.32.0... yes why not checking for PSTOEDIT - version == 3.32.0... yes instead? (Martin Weber <martweb@gmx.net>) A2. We have to detect one of the three states: 1. We don't have pstoedit or have pstoedit older than 3.32. -- We should not build pstoedit output functions. 2. We have pstoedit 3.32. -- pstoedit-config in 3.32 has some bugs. workaround macros must be enabled. 3. We have pstoedit 3.33. or higher -- The workaround macros must be disabled. I sent patches that fixes the bugs to the author of pstoedit. So the pstoedit-config in 3.33 will not have the bugs. So, configure checks pstoedit twice. autotrace.m4 has only '>=' version checking. It doesn't have == or > version checking. (In other hand, PKG_CHECK_MODULES has such version checking.) I don't want to extend autotrace.m4 anymore. It will cause bugs. (Masatake YAMATO<jet@gyve.org>) Q3. Does autotrace could be built on MacOSX? (Many people) A3. Yes. I tested on sourceforge's compilefarm. libtool shows a strange warning but autotrace could be built and run. (Masatake YAMATO<jet@gyve.org>) Q4. Is there autotrace GUI runs on Windows? Is it possible to port frontline, gnome based GUI, to Windows? (Many people) A4. There is no GUI that runs on Windows. frontline highly depends on libgnomeui, so if libgnomeui is ported, porting frontline to windows might be easy task. If you consider to write a GUI for frontline running on Windows, it is worth to consider using Qt. rob@mediasolution.it might have some interests. Read the archive of autotrace mailing list. I, the author of frontline, am using GNU/Linux only, so I don't have much interests in porting. (Masatake YAMATO<jet@gyve.org>)