[OS X TeX] pdfinfo and calculating in an engine

[Victor Ivrii]

On 3/21/07, Friedrich Vosberg <fvosberg at mac.com> wrote:
> Am 21.03.2007 um 15.37 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
> >
> > [...] install Xcode ...
>
> Done.
>
> > (with compilers and libraries and SDKs)
>
> I do not know what You mean. I have installed Xcode.mpkg from my
> system CD No. 1.
>
> > And did you also go the step before this step: install the X11 user
> > package on Tiger (last year, in November, an update was available
> > from Apple)?
>
> Do I really need X11 to run pdfinfo in the shell?

No, you don't. But xpdf is X11 program

>
> Sorry, but I am absolutely not familiar with programming, compiling
> and all this mysterious things. I one of them who click onto a blue
> button named [Install].


compiling is not a programming :-) as long as one does not need to
change files one should know 26 letters to read README and INSTALL)

>
> I've found a precompiled version of xpdf-tools for MacOS X PPC and I
> have installed it knowing that I use an Intel Mac. The installer runs
> seemlessly. But after that I typed into the Terminal which pdfinfo
> and the Terminal has answered:
>
>    albook:~ fv$ which pdfinfo
>    no pdfinfo in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin


WTH? your path is too short. There must be /usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin at least (and pdfinfo would be in /usr/local/bin)

You need to fix your path (actually almost all "non-standard" programs
 usually go to /usr/local hierarchy
>
> So I think this were not the way to install pdfinfo on my MacBook Pro.


???? It may be there
>
> Could You please explain the right way? Thanks a lot in advance!




>
> Kind regards, Friedrich
>
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