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Provide instructions for Windows systems
This doesn't mean that there is an official Windows support; prebuilt packages (with e.g. Cygwin, GS and Java) will not be provided (as I don't have a chance to test them, so it's pointless so ship something untested).
However, being GS and Java cross-platform, there should be in principle no obstacle in running pdf2archive
in Windows (once one has a Bash shell). Additionally, given that I've put up pdf2archive
right because Linux is discriminated in the availability of free PDF/A-1B converting solutions, it would not be nice to "discriminate back" Windows.
Possible solutions
- For Windows 10 on An option would be to use the WSL. Checks are needed.
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For older versions
I think we need something like Cygwin. Users can be instructed to open a Cygwin terminal and run
pdf2archive
as you would do on Linux, or we can provide them with a.bat
wrapper. Checks are needed.
TODO
- [ ] Find someone willing to test on Windows, as I don't have a Windows box available (and I don't plan to have one).
- [ ] Test the solution with WSL on Windows 10.
- [ ] Test the solution with Cygwin, both with and without a
.bat
. - [ ] Provide instructions for installing Ghostscript, Java and a WSL Linux distro (or Cygwin).