On 4/7/2022 11:13 AM, airplanemath via Cygwin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07 2022, Eliot Moss wrote: > >> Dear Cygwin-ers -- >> >> Today I had use for pdftotext. It man page is installed, but the program >> itself is missing. On Ubuntu (etc.) it is part of the xpdf package, the >> Cygwin version of which I have installed. pdftotext.cc is in the source >> package, but its executable is not present in the binary package. >> > $ cygcheck -p bin/pdftotext > Found 6 matches for bin/pdftotext > poppler-debuginfo-0.88.0-1 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler > poppler-debuginfo-0.88.0-2 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler > poppler-debuginfo-21.01.0-1 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler > poppler-0.88.0-1 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities > poppler-0.88.0-2 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities > poppler-21.01.0-1 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities > > Try installing poppler > >> So I am wondering if this is intentional (is pdftotext somewhere else?) or an >> oversight. The situation seems the same from at least the 4.01.01 release >> onward to 4.03 (current) release. > > This looks to be intentional, given the mention in the last several > announcements, e.g. > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-February/009922.html > >> >> I suppose I can try getting all the necessary dependencies and building from >> source, if need be, but though this worth asking about. >> >> Regards - Eliot Moss > > Other ways to check are cygcheck -p pdftotext.exe or > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fpdftotext&arch=x86_64,
Thanks - I had noticed, but not connected, that pdftotext is in poppler-utilsfor Ubuntu. But it's odd to have a man page for something in one package
and the executable in another, no? No worries - I'll install poppler. Regards - Eliot -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
