.\" .\" bigtext - print big text using X11 fonts .\" Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010 Peter Miller .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU .\" General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see . .\" .ad l .hy 0 .nf .so etc/version.so BigText \*(v)

BigText \*(v)
Files for Download

There are several ways to obtain this software, either as source code or pre-compiled binaries.


The Master Source

File Name Description
bigtext-\*(v).README The README file from the tarball.
change_log.txt The release notes describing the changes in this version.
bigtext-\*(v).lsm Brief description in LSM format.
bigtext-\*(v).spec RedHat package manager specification file (RPM)
bigtext-\*(v).tar.gz The complete source.
bigtext-\*(v).pdf BigText Reference Manual, in Adobe Acrobat format.
debian/ Pre-compiled debian packages for Ubuntu x86_64.


SourceForge Downloads

The best possible download speed for the source tarball will be from the SourceForge download pages.


Ubuntu Packages

If you use Ubuntu Linux, there are pre-built packages available for installation using the normal sudo apt-get install method, from this package archive (PPA).

Instructions are available there for how to manually add the PPA to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, but the following commands are sufficient on recent versions of Ubuntu: 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmiller-opensource/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bigtext
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The Bleeding Edge

BigText is developed using Aegis, a transaction based software configuration management system. The Aegis repository for this project is available.

BigText is written and owned by Peter Miller <pmiller@ opensource. org. au> and is freely distributable under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL. There is more Software by Peter Miller at his home page.
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