Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:31:13 -0400 From: Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: print/pdftk: Lonely orphan port needs attention (print/pdftk broken on 7.0 after gettext work (appx)) Message-ID: <485A4381.509@queue.to>
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pdftk was a handy utility for splitting and combining bits of .pdfs. Given a list of .pdfs it could extract page ranges of input .pdfs and combine them to produce a new .pdf. Breakage may have been inevitable since pdftk is so old and unmaintained... It's also i386 only which seems to have scared off potential maintainers, at least that's how it looks perusing gnats. I'm not savvy enough to figure out why pdftk is locking up to where only a -9 will kill it. It's very repeatable (one input file, one output file, immediate lockup). Through truss it looks like it's waiting for a child to terminate but I'm not savvy enough to trace what happens to forked off processes. Would some kind soul take a look at this? Alternately, are there other ports that support pulling page ranges out of pdfs to generate new pdfs?
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