Warn on version-mismatch with xpdf about invoice2data HOT 8 CLOSED

The problem is that with the -table option documents will be parsed a little differently. So templates need to be different.

It's simple to get the static version of xpdf. No dependencies.

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Ok, I understand your point. I hope that the Linux distro will update their packages soon.

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Debian sid currently does not package pdftotext in the xpdf package, but rather in the poppler-utils package. Which version of that has the --table option?

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Debian Sid has the required package, but it's called xpdf, not poppler.

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I know the requirement sucks until Debian Sid is out. But as you saw in your other issue, the table-option makes a big difference for almost all invoices that use tables. (almost all invoices use tables). If we allow 2 versions, we need to redo most matching templates.

The download is just a single binary, so it's not impossible.

• Ubuntu already has the correct version. (Xenial)
• OSX also has it via Homebrew
• Debian doesn't, but will get it next year. (or can just add the bin from the website)

Do we need a better error message until then?

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If you go to https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/xpdf/filelist you will see that the pdftoxxxx utils are no longer there. However if you do to https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/poppler-utils/filelist you will find them all there.

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Ah. They re-organized it. That should be added as note. Would be even better if they add a backports package.

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It will try with- and without -table option now and give a warning.

I guess anyone adding new templates should use the newer version to avoid them breaking in the next months.

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