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Message #00268
Re: compiling xpdf tools
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 21:20, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> Maybe someone knows that already (else I can research or ask on the
>> appropriate mailing list): is there an easy way to compile just
>> pdfinfo, pdffonts, ... etc. from xpdf sources? (These two are the only
>> two tools that I often used.)
>
> I did that several times on my Mac; pdffonts compiles fine, and so does, I
> guess, pdfinfo, though I can't be sure for the latter because I hardly use it.
> xpdf is, obviously, another story, but the text-based utilities of the xpdf
> suite should be pretty straightforward to build on any Unixy system.
I obviously don't want to add xpdf itself. (I have Preview and Skim for that :)
The compilation seems to run without any problem; I'll add those few
commands once in the near future.
Mojca
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