[OS X TeX] OT: looking for a public-domain EPS file editor

[Victor Ivrii]

On 4/25/07, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:
> Le 25 avr. 07 à 16:00, Victor Ivrii a écrit :
>
> > I compiled xpdf (with all tools) by myself on MacBookPro and it is
> > Unix Executable Flie (Intel) while some other executables in
> > /usr/local/bin either indicate Universal or nothing. Yes, xpdf can be
> > open by double-click (it launches X11 first)
>
> That (compiling from source) makes sense, all the more so since xpdf
> has been updated on 27 February 2007 while the precompiled tools date
> back to 2004). But compilation expects motif or lesstiff, which have
> to be installed separately, and IIRC this leads to problems which
> were reported here some time ago.

It was discussed some time ago and someone was able to repeat
indicated steps (as long you do not enter "sudo make install" nothing
compromises your setup


>
> Accordingly, rather than risk to do something wrong and compromise my
> setup, I followed the path of least resistance.

Sometimes such path is the surest one to compromise the setup :-)

>
> Bruno
>
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