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jjwilly16 / node-pdftk

A wrapper for PDF Toolkit with streams and promises.
MIT License
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MacOS note re: pdftk version #3

Closed jelling closed 6 years ago

jelling commented 6 years ago

PDFTk unfortunately does not link to the most recent MacOS version from their home page. So if a user of your library uses MacOS >= 10.11, PDFTk won't work at all but they'll likely blame the wrapper.

The correct PDFTk version is at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.11-setup.pkg

I emailed the author to update his page but this has been an open issue for a year: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39750883/pdftk-hanging-on-macos-sierra

jjwilly16 commented 6 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out! I added a note to the README.

electrichead commented 5 years ago

I think this issue shouldn't be closed - the README wasn't updated with the link. I wasted so much time because I got the link from the site but it just hung indefinitely.

OP's link needs to be in the README explicitly!

mikermcneil commented 5 years ago

For others finding this, as @jelling pointed out, the filename is the giveaway. If the filename of your installer doesn't mention osx 10.11, then you probably have the old one.

TomGranot commented 3 years ago

Sent Sid a message on Linkedin and over email. Let's see if it'll help..