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Comment on pdftk 1.41 for Mac OS X 10.6 by Theo Denovan

Theo Denovan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:43:55 +0000

Thank you!! You’re a legend.

Comment on pdftk 1.41 for Mac OS X 10.6 by Azhrei

Azhrei — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:19:19 +0000

Actually, it might be better to edit ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist because that file is parsed and variables are created by the window manager. That means the PATH variable will always be up to date, even if not executed from a Terminal.

Comment on pdftk 1.41 for Mac OS X 10.6 by Robert Wilde

Robert Wilde — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:35:41 +0000

If you find typing “pdftk” doesn’t work after installing you may need to add “/usr/local/bin/” to your PATH.

Do this by changing your path reference in your ”.profile” file in your home directory. It’s a hidden file if you can’t find it.

Mine ended up looking like:
PATH=”/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/bin”

Comment on pdftk 1.41 for Mac OS X 10.6 by Fred

Fred — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:23:47 +0000

Azhrei: Oh no! I can reproduce. Thanks for the hint! I’ll look into it and see what I can find out. If you find out what the problem is, please let me know as well!

Comment on pdftk 1.41 for Mac OS X 10.6 by Azhrei

Azhrei — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:57:07 +0000

Thanks Fred, I’ve been looking for something like this.

However, it’s not working for me. I’m running the latest 10.6.2 (including the Safari patch that just came out yesterday!) and I’m getting a SIGSEGV when trying to perform a “cat” operation on an input PDF. For example, the following works:

pdftk existing.pdf output new.pdf

But this one fails with a SEGV:

pdftk existing.pdf cat 1-23 output new.pdf

I’m somewhat new to development on OSX and I can’t find anything like the Linux strace(1) utility so I can’t tell what’s causing the SEGV!? I’ll be doing some more Google’ing on this, but I’ll come back here over the next few days as well.

Thanks for your work in putting this together! I built gcj on 10.6.2 but got Abort’s when gcj tried to execute ecj1 so after tinkering with it for a few hours I gave up.

Comment on Updating the Mozilla Public License by Fred

Fred — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:59:02 +0000

Toe: I passed on your comment, and if someone comes up with better wording, we’ll change it

“Yo Ma Ma”: I don’t know who you are referring to by “you people” but this is one of the biggest concerns business people have with copyleft Open Source licenses. I personally am an Open Source guy, I don’t have this problem.

Comment on Updating the Mozilla Public License by Yo Ma Ma

Yo Ma Ma — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:17:24 +0000

“taint” ??

what is wrong with you people?

Comment on Updating the Mozilla Public License by Toe

Toe — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:05:53 +0000

Small comment about the site: ‘Welcome to the process’? There’s gotta be a better way to word that…

Comment on Updating the Mozilla Public License by Ian M

Ian M — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:53:07 +0000

As well as Apache license compatibility, I would dearly love to see LGPL/GPL compatibility.

Comment on Updating the Mozilla Public License by Fred

Fred — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:43 +0000

I agree, if you don’t want copyleft, don’t use it. I was more wondering if it’ll be easier to explain to people if they can use MPL code in their (or even as the base of their) web application without having to open up their entire code base. (Which, as I understand, is the main concern of the people who are strong advocated of BSD, like commercial users of Django, for example).