[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

[Victor Ivrii]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:35 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
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>>
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>> My understanding is that the problem (painfully slow performance of
>> pdftotext and may be some other executables) is endemic to MacOSX arch
>> ppc and I also believe that it was compiled by Richard Koch. So, I am
>> forwarding it
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>> As I mentioned on intel it was fast: on my MacPro conversion of 1800
>> pages took 35 sec.
>>
>>
>> Victor
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>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm not so sure it was compiled by Dick Koch. As far as I know the only items compiled by Dick for Mac OS X outside of the binaries in .../2010/bin/... are Ghostscript (and friends) and convert from ImageMagick.
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> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>

Oops! /usr/local/bin/pdftotext

As discussion started from detex which is part of TL binaries I
extended this to pdftotext which is not

Sorry.

Victor

Victor

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