# The &ktikz; Handbook

## Introduction

&ktikz; is a TikZ/PGF code editor for &kde; which allows to preview the code real-time while editing. The editor features syntax highlighting of the TikZ/PGF code, the TikZ/PGF commands can be inserted from a menu or a dock widget, the style of the preview can be changed by setting a template.

Please report any problems or feature requests to the &ktikz; author via the bug report dialog. This is accessible from the Help Report Bug... menu of the application.

&ktikz-interface; &ktikz-usage; &ktikz-commands; &ktikz-configuration;

## Credits and License

&ktikz;

Program copyright 2007-2011 Florian Hackenberger florian@hackenberger.at

Program copyright 2007-2011 Glad Deschrijver glad.deschrijver@gmail.com

Documentation copyright 2010, 2011 Glad Deschrijver glad.deschrijver@gmail.com

&underFDL; &underGPL;

## Installation

### How to obtain &ktikz;

&ktikz; can be found at the official homepage. &ktikz; is also available at http://www.kde-apps.org.

### Requirements

In order to successfully use &ktikz; you need to at least to have kdebase and kdelibs from &kde; 4.3, and &poppler; 0.6 installed.

### Compilation and Installation

In order to compile &ktikz; it is necessary to install the development packages for &qt; 4.4, kdebase and kdelibs from &kde; 4.3, &poppler; 0.6 and &gcc;.

For detailed information on how to compile and install &ktikz;, see the INSTALL file that is provided with the source.

Since &kde; uses `cmake` you should have no trouble compiling &ktikz;. Should you run into problems please report them via email to the developers.

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