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  • From: Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] pdftotext and Links/Lynx browsers
  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:15:07 +0000

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 05:45:59PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> I downloaded and checked out pdftops. I unzipped on my DOS computer, and
> put the binary and half a dozen sample .pdf files on a 1.44 floppy disk,
> copied the binary to /bin, ran it from /mnt (floppy disk) which made .ps
> files on the floppy disk, and use psview to view them in DOS and they look
> just like the files produced by the DOS version of pdftops so this binary
> works perfectly. I have asked Doug what directories to use for the .hlp,
> .1, .cat, README, a COPYING files that go with this and I will make a

My guess:

/usr/share/pdftotext/*.hlp
/usr/man/*.cat
/usr/man/*.1
/usr/doc/pdftotext/README
/usr/doc/pdftotext/COPYING

> slackware package of pdftops. The binary is about 950K, even larger than
> pdftotext. It compresses to about half size.
>
> I will do something similar with pdfimages since I don't have a pbm/pnm
> viewer on my Linux computer or space to install one. I am now down from
> 6M to 5M free hard drive.
>
> All three of these programs share the README and COPYING files but they
> are smallish. Should I make one slackware package from all of them, or one
> with pdftext and pdfimages and another with pdftops, or three packages?

Since they are smallish, include them in the individual packages.

> About 400K each in .zip form, under 1.5M total for a single .tgz package.
>





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