[tex-live] binaries differences
Gerben Wierda
Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Sun Jan 7 18:01:36 CET 2007
On Jan 7, 2007, at 17:18 , Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> "TH" == Taco Hoekwater writes:
>
>>> from previous year's discussions i understand that pdfopen/pdfclose
>>> aren't needed on Mac OS X.
>
> TH> Yes, I would expect that. pdfopen/pdfclose need X11 to function
> TH> (or even compile),
>
> darwin binares include xdvi, so they are obviously intended to be used
> under X11 already.
>
> TH> and they can only control the Adobe PDF Reader, so they are sort
> TH> of pointless on darwin.
>
> that's a valid point, if Adobe Reader for darwin isn't an X11 app.
If you can make it compile and work on OS X (I wasn't at the time I
looked into it), feel free to add it.
G
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