According to David Adams:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:51:15 +0100 Marcus Valentine
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> > It works from the command line - I had to but e:\cygwin\bin back into the
> > path because something (what?) needs gzip. The doc2html log file contains
...
> I don't know why gzip is needed, but if it is then you must
> see that its directory is included in PATH before invoking
> htdig.
I imagine that pdftotext uses gzip to uncompress the data in compressed
PDF files. I read on the xpdf web site about it using the external
"compress" program so that the author didn't need to include proprietary
code in his source to uncompress LZW compressed PDFs. I believe newer
format PDFs use the open LZ compression standard, but LZW decompression is
still needed for older format PDFs. gzip apparently can decompress both.
--
Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
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