Tgif - Current Release & Download

William Chia-Wei Cheng
(bill.cheng@usc.edu)

Tgif - Current Release & Download

Current Release

The current release of tgif is Version 4.2 Patchlevel 5.

Copyright

Starting with version 4.1.41 (released on Oct 17, 2001), each version of tgif is released under two licenses in parallel; one under the original free-of-charge license and the other one under the Open Source Q Public License.

Install Tgif from Public Archive

On a Linux machine, you can simply try one of the following commands to install tgif from a public archive:

    sudo apt-get install tgif
    sudo yum install tgif

This may not get you the latest release of tgif. If you would like the latest release, please download from one of the links on this web page.

Download Sites for Tgif Source Code

Please note that the QPL version and the free-of-charge version of tgif have identical source. The only difference is licensing.

Open Source (under the Q Public License) release of tgif (3,093,619 bytes, MD5=a622240ce2377f15b6d8261e4c49b8f6):

Open Source (under the Q Public License) with source code patches for openSUSE 15.2 (thanks to Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza):
- source RPM on http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/src/

Free-of-charge release of tgif (3,115,237 bytes, MD5=5553a5f2977dede84c83dac9eb2f3183):
- ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/free-of-charge/tgif-4.2.5.tar.gz (primary)

Anonymous FTP Sites for Tgif Binaries

These binaries are built statically. If there's any problems running them, please send mail to bill.cheng@usc.edu.

Version 4.2 Patchlevel 5 Binaries (QPL license)
- Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,108,924 bytes, MD5=e4e0b4da857b2e9bdece716f3095ceed) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 13 (please note that this may work on newer versions of Fedora with backward-compatibility libraries installed)
- FC8 Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,220,783 bytes, MD5=f1fb38313de9795ace4e43fdca846661) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 8 (use this only if the above RPM failed)
- Sun Solaris 5.9: gzipped (1,237,564 bytes, MD5=adc156a56ddb88999d7b0d3809b8bb37) - dl is still dynamically linked

Version 4.2 Patchlevel 4 Binaries (QPL license)
- Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,108,972 bytes, MD5=d32372350483f738808045de3535c242) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 13 (please note that this may work on newer versions of Fedora with backward-compatibility libraries installed)
- FC8 Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,220,752 bytes, MD5=f838bdc8c55d4271bfa5a6fa29ef9b78) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 8 (use this only if the above RPM failed)

Version 4.2 Patchlevel 3 Binaries (QPL license)
- Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,107,596 bytes, MD5=f11061c7120bd8ef7c8b25109a9a9c6b) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 13 (please note that this may work on newer versions of Fedora with backward-compatibility libraries installed)
- FC8 Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,219,598 bytes, MD5=0853215db86b745cfe3bf305d3b37f02) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 8 (use this only if the above RPM failed)

Version 4.2 Patchlevel 2 Binaries (QPL license)
- Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,179,780 bytes, MD5=8f1deed3dbc129d6918f64c1ce4ff2d8) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 8 (please note that this may work on newer versions of Fedora with backward-compatibility libraries installed)

Version 4.2 Patchlevel 1 Binaries (QPL license)
- Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,168,344 bytes, MD5=1ba6c48d2ac7c009324697e03db79fb9) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 8 (please note that this may work on newer versions of Fedora with backward-compatibility libraries installed)

Version 4.1 Patchlevel 45 Binaries (QPL license)
- Linux RPM (i386 glibc) (1,062,773 bytes) - compiled with /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on Fedora Core 5 (please note that this may work on newer versions of Fedora with backward-compatibility libraries installed)
- Sun Solaris 5.9: gzipped (1,799,781 bytes) - dl is still dynamically linked

How to Build & Install Tgif

If you cannot install from the pre-built binaries, you can build and install tgif from the soruce distribution.

Recent Patches

Last few patches (To apply a patch, use 'patch -p -N < patchfile' or 'patch -b -p0 --verbose < patchfile' if you have GNU patch):

Temporary patches to be applied to a recent release:

Temporary patches to be applied to tgif-QPL-4.2.5:
- Aug 2, 2011: ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/patches/tgif-QPL-4.2-patch5a.gz (420 bytes - Fix a crashing bug on some Solaris systems. Thanks to Shigeharu TAKENO <shige at iee.niit.ac.jp> for the patch.)
  To apply this patch, please put the patch file in the same directory as "Imakefile" then do:
```
        gunzip tgif-QPL-4.2-patch5a.gz
        patch -b -p0 < tgif-QPL-4.2-patch5a
```
- Sep 7, 2011: ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/patches/tgif-QPL-4.2-patch5b.gz (925 bytes - Tgif-4.2.3 release broke the use of Japanese EUC fonts in that the generated PS/EPS file are bad. Thanks to Tomoko HAYASHI <tomokoat u-aizu.ac.jp> and Takafumi HAYASHI <takafumi at u-aizu.ac.jp> for collaborating to work out a patch to fix this problem.)
  To apply this patch, please put the patch file in the same directory as "Imakefile" then do:
```
        gunzip tgif-QPL-4.2-patch5b.gz
        patch -b -p0 < tgif-QPL-4.2-patch5b
```

Temporary patches to be applied to tgif-QPL-4.2.4: none so far.

Temporary patches to be applied to tgif-QPL-4.2.3:
- ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/patches/tgif-QPL-4.2-patch3a.gz (96,142 bytes - Fix the "configure" script. The "configure" script, and only the "configure" script, did not work in the tgif-QPL-4.2.3 release. This patch only fixes the "configure" script. If you build tgif with "xmkmf", then you do not need to apply this patch.)
  To apply this patch, please put the patch file in the same directory as "configure" then do:
```
    gunzip tgif-QPL-4.2-patch3a.gz
    patch -b -p0 < tgif-QPL-4.2-patch3a
```

Temporary patches to be applied to tgif-QPL-4.2.2:
- ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/patches/tgif-QPL-4.2-patch2a.gz (760 bytes - to fix strcpy() bugs on 64-bit eglibc)

Main patches to patch from one release to the next:

ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/patches/tgif-QPL-4.2-patch5.gz (2,225 bytes)
Tgif-4.2-patch4 is not available - due to bugs in the 4.2-patch3 release.
Tgif-4.2-patch3 is not available - too many changes between 4.2-patch2 and 4.2-patch3.
ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/patches/tgif-QPL-4.2-patch2.gz (50,042 bytes)
ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/patches/tgif-QPL-4.2-patch1.gz (1,832 bytes)
Tgif-4.2-patch0 is not available - too many changes between 4.1.45 and 4.2.

Other Versions of Tgif

These versions are not maintained by the author of tgif.

RISC OS version - download tgif-QPL binaries from the Unix Porting Project
FreeBSD version - source code unchanged, just Makefile and packaging info modifications
NetBSD Package - tgif is available as a NetBSD package
Debian Package - tgif is available as a Debian package
Amiga version - ported by Terje Pedersen
Japanese version - ported by Gouichi Iisaka <iisaka@cray.com> / Tsukada Satoru <tsukada@tcd.hitachi.co.jp>

Man Pages

Current Man Pages (Version 4.2 and Above):

In ASCII (291,836 bytes), gzipped (78,024 bytes)
PostScript (659,188 bytes), gzipped (164,657 bytes)
PDF (239,802 bytes), gzipped (212,910 bytes)
nroff/troff (242,300 bytes), gzipped (67,871 bytes)
HTML (286,540 bytes), gzipped (72,365 bytes) - automatically generated using man2html by Richard Verhoeven (some links are invalid on this page due to the automatic generation)
Japanese online manual - by Shigeharu TAKENO <shige@iee.niit.ac.jp>

Tgif-3.x Source & Binaries

Source code for the last stable version of tgif-3.x (909,424 bytes):

ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/tgif-3.x/tgif-3.0.18.tar.gz

Version 3.0 Patchlevel 18 Binaries

Linux x86 glibc: gzipped (1,028,608 bytes) - compiled with /lib/libc.so.6 on Red Hat 5.1
Sun Solaris 5.5: gzipped (1,025,715 bytes) - socket, nsl, gen, and dl are still dynamically linked

Version 3.0 Patchlevel 3 Binaries

FreeBSD: gzipped (747,716 bytes)

Version 2.16 Patchlevel 12 Binaries

SunOS: gzipped (653,311 bytes)
Linux: gzipped (481,825 bytes)
SGI: gzipped (1,658,120 bytes)

Tgif Utilities

Tgif-thumb -- thumbnail processing for a bunch of tgif files available for anonymous ftp from ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/contrib/tgif-thumb/tgif-thumb-0.1.tar.gz (2,439 bytes).
Tgif-EPS.mak -- a simple makefile which looks for all *.obj files in a directory and converts them all to EPS as needed to make the EPS files up to date available for anonymous ftp from ftp://bourbon.usc.edu/pub/tgif/contrib/tgif-eps/tgif-eps.mak (1,077 bytes).

Tgif Goodies

Some goodies such as Avery Labels and LaTeX Equations are available at bourbon.usc.edu. The README file is here for easy access.