From: Jason Fb <jason.boldt@...>
Date: 2009-05-20T05:25:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Error invoking PDFTK when running from TextMate

I'm having a similar problem, although I'm getting the error 
"PDF::Toolkit::ExecutionError: Error invoking PDFTK" directly when 
running Ruby on the command line

Here's my ruby script:

require 'rubygems'
require 'pdf/toolkit'
require "ActiveSupport"

my_pdf = PDF::Toolkit.open("/Users/jason/MTY292323-04.pdf")
puts "hello"
txt = my_pdf.to_text.read
puts txt


When I invoke this script I get the "Error invoking PDFTK"

$ ruby lib/test_pdf_toolkit.rb
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/pdf-toolkit-0.49/lib/pdf/toolkit.rb:556:in 
`read_data': Error invoking PDFTK (PDF::Toolkit::ExecutionError)
  from 
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/pdf-toolkit-0.49/lib/pdf/toolkit.rb:279:in 
`reload'
  from 
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/pdf-toolkit-0.49/lib/pdf/toolkit.rb:227:in 
`open'
  from lib/test_pdf_toolkit.rb:5


I tried making a symlink from /usr/bin/pdftk to the real pdftk 
executable here:  /usr/local/bin/pdftk

But still no luck. I'm on Mac OS X 10.5 and I installed PDFTK using the 
package installer 
(http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/OSX-10.3/pdftk1.12_OSX10.3.dmg.gz)

I did notice in the readme for PDFTK that it says: "NOTE: The version of 
pdftk installed by this package will only work on macs running OS X 
10.3." -- I don't suppose it means it really won't work on 10.4 and 10.5 
and if you like me, on 10.5, you really need to build it using 
DarwinPORTS ?  (I guess I assumed it work was forward compatible).



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