System Requirements

System Requirements:

FigureGen relies on other software as it makes images from ADCIRC-related files. You will need to install these software packages on your system before using FigureGen.

1. Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is the software package that plots the contours, contour lines, etc. and produces a PostScript file containing the figure. The GMT software package is actually a suite of executable programs, of which FigureGen uses only a subset. Note that FigureGen v.49 only works with GMT 4.5 or higher! We use their ps2raster command to convert the PostScript files to raster images, and the ps2raster command was not implemented until GMT 4.5.
2. GhostScript is the software package that converts PostScript files into different formats, including the raster format used by FigureGen. GhostScript is typically installed on Unix systems, so it may already be available on your system.
3. ImageMagick is a software package for the manipulation and conversion of images. This software is optional! It is only required when FigureGen adds background images to the plots, as shown in Examples 11 and 14 below. In that case, the convert command needs to be available from ImageMagick. Otherwise, this software can be ignored.