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Old 09-06-2006, 12:10 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by vranghel
Seems that my programming illiteracy is quite advanced: how the hell am i supposed to install the patch?

http://www.jauco.nl/SoC/abiword-pdf-style-0.3.patch
http://www.jauco.nl/SoC/poppler-pdf-style-0.3.patch

Those two are supposed to be the plugins, but when i click on them it opens a text file. There's no .dll no .exe no nothin'

I'd really appreciate some help from someone more knowledgeable.
Some background : patch(1) is an UNIX utility usually used to merge some modifications into the source code of a released version of a program. And those files ("patches") are generated with the diff(1) utility. So the files are named patches or diffs.

Patches are usually geared to programmers or advanced users, not afraid of downloading source code and compilling it himself. It's really not very difficult if you have the right tools.

So this is a patch in the old UNIX way. In Windows is more common to say "patch" refering to a package of replacement files needed to upgrade a program.

And more to the point: search below for detailed instructions to how to apply the patch and compile the program (in Linux, that is what I've installed; in Windows+Cygwin it should be slightly different)... but the instructions are incomplete right now, as I've found that the patched poppler library fails to compile using gcc 3.3.5 :-( .

Anyway, in the next message I say how to get to that error
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