[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Nov 3 14:20:02 CET 2010


On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Victor Ivrii 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
> 
> 
> Victor
> 

Howdy,

It's from xpdf tools.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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