[EMBOSS] SeaView

[Charles Plessy]

Le Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:48:50PM +0200, Guy Bottu a écrit :
> SeaView is certainly not bad. It has the advantage to be freeware and that 
> there are versions for several platforms.
> You can install it and test it yourself. It is in principle easy to install 
> (although there might be problems with prerequisite libraries).

Hi all,

Indeed, to get PDF export requires the PDFlib, which is not free
software. However, Manolo Gouy, the upstream author, kindly provided
compilation options to replace the PDF support by a simple PS support.

It is with this option that Seaview is built on Debian and its
derivatives. As a bonus, on FreeDesktop compliant window managers (like
GNOME, KDE, Xfce), alignments in Clustal W format will be recognised as
being openable with SeaView.

Have a nice weekend,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian-Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan