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Problems with Convert Anything to PalmDoc Format
Authored by: dslipp on Feb 25, '03 12:03:55PM

When I saw this hint, I did the "Dance of Joy" (much to my wife's amusement) since this is something I've been trying to work out on my own.

Unfortunately, I've run into some problems (Please, don't take the following as criticism, they're just notes to help torubleshoot the problem.) -

1. First, I found that I had to "sudo make install" to install both packages. (No big deal...)

2. When configuring xpdf, I got this error:

" configure: WARNING: Couldn't find X / Motif -- you will be able to compile pdftops, pdftotext, pdfinfo, pdffonts, and pdfimages, but not xpdf "

I wans't sure whether that was critical, so I continued.

3. When I tried it in Safari, Safari locked up. Since this kind of thing isn't unusual for Safari, it may not be involved.

4. When I tried it in Script Editor, it seemed to be working, but after entering the title in the dialog box, it threw a "Printing Error" dialog box at me. No error detials, just "Printing Error."

I really hope this helps troubleshoot the installation, as this is something I would LOVE to see working.

Dave

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Problems with Convert Anything to PalmDoc Format
Authored by: evildrbob on Feb 25, '03 12:27:36PM

I had the same problem with configure and then the printing error.

One comment - the aconf2 file? After commenting out every line beginning with a "#" I was left with no code uncommented - here's my file:

/*
* aconf2.h
*
* This gets included by aconf.h, and contains miscellaneous global
* settings not directly controlled by autoconf. This is a separate
* file because otherwise the configure script will munge any
* #define/#undef constructs.
*
* Copyright 2002 Glyph & Cog, LLC
*/

/#ifndef ACONF2_H/
/#define ACONF2_H/

/*
* This controls the use of the interface/implementation pragmas.
*/
/#ifdef __GNUC__/
/#define USE_GCC_PRAGMAS/
/#endif/
/* There is a bug in the version of gcc which ships with MacOS X 10.2 */
/#ifdef MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED/
/# if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_2/
/# undef USE_GCC_PRAGMAS/
/# endif/
/#endif/

/#endif/


Is this correct? It doesn't seem to make sense to comment everything out, but the instructions *did* say every line with a # in front of it.



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Problems with Convert Anything to PalmDoc Format
Authored by: Deut3221 on Feb 25, '03 08:37:26PM

I'd really like to give this a try, but it is over my head. If someone figuures out how to get it working, and then feels brave kind, and very paitent :), I'd appreciate a few more help lines for us rookies. Thanks!!
-steve


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Problems with Convert Anything to PalmDoc Format
Authored by: ldrothny on Feb 26, '03 01:57:36PM
I had this problem as well and noticed that both xPDF and txt2pdbdoc are installed in /usr/local/bin which for most of us isn't pathed properly. Your choices are:
-move the xPDF files and txt2pdbdoc files to /usr/bin/ (not recommended)
OR
-set up your path to include /usr/local/bin (not sure the best tip for this)
OR what I did was modify the two lines that referenced the commands as follows:
do shell script "pdftotext "
becomes:
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/pdftotext "
AND
do shell script "txt2pdbdoc "
becomes:
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/txt2pdbdoc "
I also noticed that one of the lines contains:
Users/mdr/Desktop/
instead of:
Users/username/Desktop/
This needs to be replaced with YOUR user name.

After I did these simple things it worked! And I really love it! Thanks to the original poster of this tip.

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Problems with Convert Anything to PalmDoc Format
Authored by: idiotben on Feb 26, '03 09:10:24PM

I get the same thing. No debug output at all.



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