On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:07:23PM -0500, Paul C. Cobb wrote: [...] > In the list archives, I found the pdftopdb shell script posted by Dan > Stromberg as a followup to an earlier post by Jaime Alberto Silva. > Thanks to both for sharing your work on this. > > I'm trying to use the script on a Mac OS X machine. The initial batch > of conversions using pdftoppm appears to work fine, but then the script > wants to call `plucker-build' . At this point it fails because, as > far as I can tell, the Plucker installation on my machine doesn't > include anything of that name. You should read "Invoking the parser" section in the "Plucker Manual" that should come with your Plucker Desktop.
plucker-build is just a wrapper script that calls Spider.py passing it the commands plucker-build was invoked with. I think you should create plucker-build script by itself and put there something like ---8<--[cut start]------------------------------------------------ #! /whatever/path/to/the/shell/in/mac/os/x PYTHON=/whatever/path/to/python/runtime PLUCKER=/whatever/plucker/is/located "$PYTHON/python" "$PLUCKER/Spider.py" $@ # ^^^ python executable ^^^ top-level plucker app ^^^ cmd-line args ---8<--[cut end]-------------------------------------------------- This "script" assumes that Mac OS X's applications have no extensions (like .exe) and that your shell understands $@ notation (meaning "the list of all arguments passed on command line). Sorry, I had not even seen any Mac yet and so my guessing is based on the assumption that modern macs are just FreeBSDs in disguise, so I cannot give you more precise hints on what to do. Hope it will help though... P.S. You can go another (less automatized) way: change your PDF-conversion script so that it does NOT attempts to call plucker-build and then after it finished running just use plucker desktop to convert the resulting HTML page, then delete it manually. _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list plucker-list@rubberchicken.org http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
