According to Bill Akins: > >htdig's bits of Sat, 31 Aug 2002 translated to: > >>one thing concerns me is that my server RH7 runs in textmode only. > >>Do i have to startx in order to have xpdf work? > > >If you actually want to view documents with xpdf, then yes. For > >processing them using doc2html, you don't need to have X running. > >My understanding is that a couple utilities that are part of the > >xpdf package, rather than xpdf itself, are used by the parser. > > >Jim > > I can confirm that Jim is correct. My RH 7.3 servers boot up to init 3 > (text mode) and processes PDF's just fine. Hope that helps.
Correct. The two utilities from the xpdf package that doc2html.pl (or conv_doc.pl) uses to extract text and dictionary info from PDFs are pdftotext and pdfinfo. Neither of these utilities require an X server to be running. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
