PharmTeX Quick Guide Version 1.2 Quick Guide Report Title: PharmTeX Quick Guide Date Issued: 15 JAN 2019 Version: 1.2 Author: Christian Hove Rasmussen Contact:
[email protected] Website: http://pharmtex.org PHARMTEX QUICK GUIDE Page 1 of 6 PharmTeX Quick Guide Version 1.2 1. INTRODUCTION PharmTeX is an open-source framework for creating publishing-ready reports directly from figure and table files. The framework is based on LaTeX, the gold standard for typesetting scientific documents. PharmTeX is released under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3). This user guide has the objective of giving you as a PharmTeX user the ability to: • Set up PharmTeX on your computer. • Initialize a report. • Use PharmTeX features to put in various key report components. • Finalize a report to make it ready for publishing. 2. SETTING UP PHARMTEX In this guide, we will assume that you are using the PharmTeX software bundles. They are available on pharmtex.org under Downloads. Currently, versions for Windows and Linux are available. Please download the one suitable for your operating system. Once the ZIP file is downloaded, double-click it to open it and drag-and-drop the "pharmtex" folder within to C:\Users\USERNAME on Windows 10 and /home/USERNAME on Linux (takes about 15 min to extract). When you are done, the location and contents on Windows 10 should be as shown in Figure 1, with USERNAME matching your Windows login name: Figure 1. PharmTeX software bundle location PharmTeX software bundle location. Once the bundle is in place, please download the example document ZIP file from pharmtex.org (located under Downloads).