[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

[Victor Ivrii]

2010/11/3 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> You should report a bug in it, it is obviously improperly compiled. I
> use it regularly even for books with 500+ pages.
>
> 2010/11/3  <cfrees at imapmail.org>:
>> On Mon 1st Nov, 2010 at 22:16, Karl Berry seems to have written:
>>
>>>   pdftotext is already part of TeX Live.
>>>
>>> For Windows only.   (As with many other generic tools.)
>>
>> I do have pdftotext (though not from TeX Live, obviously) but whenever
>> I've tried to use it it has taken simply forever to produce any output
>> even for quite small documents. I would not like to try this method on
>> a paper of even 3,000 words - never mind 8,000 or more.
>>
>> - cfr
>>
>>>   BTW, pdftotext -layout yields amazingly good results.
>>>
>>> Yes :).
>>>
>>
>



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

As I mentioned on intel it was fast: on my MacPro conversion of 1800
pages took 35 sec.


Victor
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