=== Which topdrawer version should I use with MadAnalysis? ===

Topdrawer is a SLAC software of which different versions are in circulation. For the automatic plotting after event generation MadAnalysis needs to be able to cut a topdrawer file in smaller files, convert them to postscript files and rotate the single plots automatically to put them in a web page. As the syntax for conversion and rotating plots is not the same in all version some errors, or even a complete stop of the MadGraph/MadEvent run might be expected if a non-default version of topdrawer is used for the automatic plotting.

We recommend the following pre-compiled versions of topdrawer:
   * (32 bit) Linux version available [attachment:td here]
   * Windows version available [http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/beamphysics/codes/topdrawer/topdrawer.html here]
   * For Mac OS X look [http://theory.fnal.gov/people/parke/TD/ here].

The sources that are available from [attachment:td.tgz here] are '''not''' supported. (But might still be useful if neither of the above pre-compiled versions work or you are not using the automatic plotting, but running MadAnalysis by hand.)

Note: For 64 bit linux version, you can use the library ia32-libs in order to use the 32 bit version available above.

A complete topdrawer reference manual can be found [http://www.pa.msu.edu/reference/topdrawer-docs/ here].

-- Main.RikkertFrederix - 2010-08-26