On Thu, Apr 07 2022, Eliot Moss wrote: > Dear Cygwin-ers -- > > Today I had use for pdftotext. It man page is installed, but the program > itself is missing. On Ubuntu (etc.) it is part of the xpdf package, the > Cygwin version of which I have installed. pdftotext.cc is in the source > package, but its executable is not present in the binary package. > $ cygcheck -p bin/pdftotext Found 6 matches for bin/pdftotext poppler-debuginfo-0.88.0-1 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler poppler-debuginfo-0.88.0-2 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler poppler-debuginfo-21.01.0-1 - poppler-debuginfo: Debug info for poppler poppler-0.88.0-1 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities poppler-0.88.0-2 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities poppler-21.01.0-1 - poppler: PDF manipulation utilities
Try installing poppler > So I am wondering if this is intentional (is pdftotext somewhere else?) or an > oversight. The situation seems the same from at least the 4.01.01 release > onward to 4.03 (current) release. This looks to be intentional, given the mention in the last several announcements, e.g. https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-February/009922.html > > I suppose I can try getting all the necessary dependencies and building from > source, if need be, but though this worth asking about. > > Regards - Eliot Moss Other ways to check are cygcheck -p pdftotext.exe or https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fpdftotext&arch=x86_64, -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
