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diff --git a/README b/README
index f8c1f93..f7c6881 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ You'll need:
   - A web server (I use Apache 2, with mpm-itk[1] to separate the ugliness
     from the rest of the server installation).
   - ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/).
-  - Perl (http://www.perl.org/), with the CGI module.
+  - Perl (http://www.perl.org/), with the CGI and HTML::Entities modules.
   - OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/ -- doh), tested with v1.1
     only. See below for special configuration needed.
   - GhostScript, probably almost any halfway recent version; newer ones
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ You'll need:
     stuff, you might even need the latest AFPL version from CVS, if you
     can live with its license.) http://www.ghostscript.com/ has it all.
   - vim (http://www.vim.org/).
+  - gnome-web-photo, currently only available from GNOME's CVS
+    (http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-web-photo/, do
+    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co gnome-web-photo
+    to check out).
 
 [1]: http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/
 
@@ -31,6 +35,10 @@ Xvfb will do nicely:
 
   nohup Xvfb :25 &
 
+(Note that gnome-web-photo seems to be a bit picky about the color depth.
+If you get all black images in your PDFs, add "-screen scrn 800x600x24"
+to the Xvfb command line and see if it helps.)
+
 Then, you'll need to log in as the CGI user (yes, yuck :-) ), run
 OpenOffice.org for the first time, accept the license etc. Then you'll have
 to add a new printer -- use spadmin (in the same directory as soffice), add
@@ -42,6 +50,18 @@ output PostScript, but OK). It's going to be a “PDF converter”, using
 as command line, and your output directory as appropriate. Also remember to
 set the page size if you don't happen to prefer Letter already.
 
+
+Special vim configuration
+
+You might want a simple .vimrc for your user as well; mine reads
+
+  set fileencodings=utf-8,iso8859-1
+  syn on
+  set bg=dark
+  
+(Yes, for some reason bg=dark looks better when printing. Don't ask me why.)
+
+
 Happy hacking :-)
 
   -- Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>, http://www.sesse.net/