vprerex (visual prerex) is a GUI front-end and viewer for the prerex
interactive editor of prerequisite-chart descriptions in the prerex
format. The viewer may be used just as a minimalistic viewer of
arbitrary PDF files but supports editing of charts generated using
prerex.sty by allowing coordinates of course boxes, arrows, and
background points to be conveyed back to the prerex editor command-line
using the clipboard.

To install:

  + You must have first installed the Qt-4 libraries and poppler
    libraries, including the poppler-qt4 library. These may be available
    packaged for your Linux distribution or the sources can be obtained
    from:

http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/downloads#lgpl
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

  + Edit vprerex.pro so INCLUDEPATH and LIBS point to the 
    relevant directories.

  + qmake vprerex.pro (using the Qt-4 qmake)

  + make

  + install the vprerex binary in a suitable directory such as
    $HOME/bin or /usr/local/bin.

If vprerex is applied to a LaTeX file, it calls xterm and prerex.

On the Windows platform, the Qt-4 libraries are available for the Cygwin
environment and the poppler libraries (including poppler-qt4) will build
in this environment. Then vprerex will build and run on the Cygwin
X-server.
