<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Reinhard Kotucha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de" target="_blank">reinhard.kotucha@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
a friend of mine installed MacTeX (TL-2012) recently. Everything<br>
works like a charm. However, I wrote a script for him (on Linux)<br>
which depends on pdftops (part of xpdf). It turned out that this<br>
program didn't exist on his system.<br>
<br>
Aren't the xpdf support programs part of MacTeX or is his installation<br>
incomplete?<br>
<br>
I don't think that xpdf itself is needed because TeXShop and TeXworks<br>
are excellent previewers, but the accompanying commandline tools<br>
like pdftops, pdffonts, pdfinfo, pdfimages... are extremely useful.<br>
Not to mention that they are extremely reliable.<br>
<br>
BTW, Akira provides the xpdf commandline tools for W32TeX and TeX Live<br>
on Windows already, hence I assume that there is a way to compile<br>
xpdf --without-xpdf :)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>Yes, usually compiling xpdf on MacOSX results in compiling these and some other commands but not xpdf</div><div style><br></div><div style>
However most commands (in their more "modern") form could be obtained from compiling poppler (without Qt):</div><div style>pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext, pdfunite<br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>(well, some require cairo). Probably some of them could be provided by MacTeX in the same way as ghostscript or convert. </div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>However, one should draw a line somewhere: why convert but not full ImageMagick? Why asymptote but not gnuplot (which is very useful for pgf/tikz)?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>BTW, since both TW and xpdf are poppler based (for xpdf it is actually the other way) TW could be rightfully considered as a replacement of xpdf (sure TW is much more than this). Talking about pdf browsers on MacOSX one could add Apple Preview and Skim (based like TS on PDFKit)</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Victor</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>========================<br>Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto<br><a href="http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii">http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii</a>
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