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Better documentation for windows #54

Closed soodoku closed 6 years ago

soodoku commented 9 years ago

Dear Scott,

For windows, it would be good to add directions for xpdf and ghostscript. They amount to two things.

  1. Download X from XYZ
  2. Set the PATH variable in 'environment variable' to the directory containing the xpdf executables (there are a bunch.)

Adding the two to readme is likely to make it easier for people to use the package.

sckott commented 9 years ago

@soodoku added a new checker to ft_extract() so should tell user if they don't have ghostscript or pdftotext installed. Added text to readme and a new man file (?extract_tools). I couldn't yet find exact instructions on how to set path variables on windows. Do you know?

soodoku commented 9 years ago

Dear Scott,

Apologies for being cryptic earlier.

Re. how to set PATH variable in environment variables, this should prove useful: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm

More generally: PATH variable defines the search space. So when it comes across gs or xpdf command, it looks into the search space to find executables related to that.

Typically, path amendments will be: C:\Program Files\xpdf\ (the person will need to inflate the zip file and then dump the exes in that directory.) and C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.16\bin\ (for ghostview)

sckott commented 6 years ago

closing this b/c just using pdftools internally now