XPDF-3.02 seemed to me to be a walk in the park from reading the special nice gentlemanly note <http://blog.thescoop.org/archives/2005/03/18/xpdf-on-the-mac/> on how to do it on Macintosh OS-X-- 10.3 or OS-X -- 10.4 (panther and tiger respectively).
Well, what was not told was long and dirty and complicated. I found out that I had to have freetype 2.02 installed and then freetype has its readmes spread out among the install notes and then I found out I had to have GNU and not any GNU will do, only GNU 3.78 or higher. To get GNU, I had to get FINK. To get FINK to work, I had to download and further clutter my desk with FILES AND FOLDERS that CAN NOT BE MOVED, so I got FINK COMMANDER. Well, given that I WAS just some fat AND happy retired man in woodsy old Florida, it got frustrating. I still do not have a simple or complex and cheap method of converting spreadsheets in pdf to excel. So, what I need and if there is one pure soul out there looking for a sure ticket to heaven, they will tell me where it is, is a super-idiot flow chart that tells me what I have to do and in what order to get XPDF to work on Panther or Tiger or both. Assume I have no background in these programs. DH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
