[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

[Victor Ivrii]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Victor Ivrii wrote "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."
>>
>> This binary isn't on my machine at all and isn't part of MacTeX. Where did you get
>> it?
>>
>> Dick
>
>
> I already wrote "Oops" as Herb Schultz corrected me. My conjecture is
> that it came either from attempt to compile xpdf or from compilation
> of poppler
>


YES - poppler provides executables

 pdffonts,  pdfimages, pdfinfo,  pdftoabw, pdftohtml,  pdftoppm,
pdftops, pdftotext

Victor


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