What is frontline?
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Frontline provides a gtk+/gnome based GUI frontend for 
autotrace (http://autotrace.sourceforge.net) in 4 ways.

1. Stand alone program. A command `frontline' runs as a stand alone
   program. It will work well with Gnome desktop and nautilus.
   
2. Reusable library. A library `libfrontline.a' could be used as a
   building block of your application that needs the autotrace function.
   APIs are listed in frontline.h.  The stand alone program frontline
   itself uses libfrontline.a.

3. Sodipodi, a drawing editor add-on module. add-on module uses the 
   libfrontline.a. See below.

4. Gimp plug-in, You can launch frontline from the GIMP's menu.
   Select "/Filters/Trace/Trace..." .

Requirements
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- Autotrace version 0.31.1(http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/snapshots)
- Gnome 1.4 enviroment
- libart_lgpl-2.3.8 or higher(ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/pre-gnome2/sources/libart_lgpl/)

  libart_lgpl in Gnome 1.4 has a bug that hungs up frontline.

Mailing list and Web site
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We discussed on autotrace mailing list.
See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/autotrace/.

The latest version will be available from:
http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/frontline/

• frontline running on sodipodi
• frontline running as a standing alone application
• gimp, frontline and sodipodi
• Zooming function

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace