dim_STAT User's Guide

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^{dim_STAT User's Guide. by Dimitri}

Additional Tools

Since version 5, additional tools are shipping with the package, but it seems I forgot to mention them explicitly and a lot of users didn't know about it.

Java2GIF Tool

This tool converts HTML pages containing dim_STAT graphs as Java applets to HTML pages with GIF images. This is very useful for reporting, printing, etc. (of course you don't need it if you used PNG :-))
Installed in : /apps/Java2GIF
Requirements :

JRE or JDK installed on the system
X11 DISPLAY positioned for image output

Configuration : edit the "j2gif.sh" script to point to the right PATH for your "java" binary
Usage :
$ j2gif.sh /full/path/to/dir/with/your/html/files
Example :
Analyzing dim_STAT Java applet graphs time to time you "Save As" your pages into /Report/J
Once finished, make a backup first of your files
Execute:
 $ /apps/Java2GIF/j2gif.sh /Report/J
That's all :-)

Java2PNG Tool

Similar to Java2GIF, but with few differences:

doesn't need the X11 server for output
processing execution is much faster compared to Java2GIF
uses PNG image format
doesn't support histogram mode

Installed in : /apps/ADMIN
Requirement : -
Configuration : -
Usage :
$ cd /apps/ADMIN
$ Java2PNG /full/path/to/dir/with/your/html/files

HTMLDOC Tool

Installed in : /apps/htmldoc

Usage : (RTFM first! :-))

 $ cat /apps/htmldoc/README
 $ /apps/htmldoc/bin/htmldoc --webpage --header t.D -f Report.pdf *.html Report/*.html

README

This is a short README about "htmldoc" program.

This program is free and I've found it very useful for making
printable and well presented HTML ==> PDF documents. Of course, HTML is great
for screen viewing, but when you should bring a printed version - it's not so
simple to obtain something presentable in easy way... Also, I like to send
PDF documents, they are small and very portable :))

The home page of "htmldoc" tool is:

               http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc


You may download and compile the last version from this site.
But as people are lazy by defenition :)) , I've pre-installed not last,
but well working binary of this great tool...

For detailed description you may start to read the htmldoc manual,
but if you are lazy as me :)), you may just start:

     /apps/htmldoc/bin/htmldoc --webpage --header t.D -f Report.pdf *.html Report/*.html

to get PDF document (Report.pdf) from collection of HTML files...
That's all! :))
-Dimitri

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