mickazoid - first, thanks for all the work you've put into this! It's amazing what emulating the "LBB style" can do for the endless strings of data in the bare .sec/etc. files. The Marches PDF is remarkable by itself, but the ability to apply a similar treatment to any existing sector, or generate from scratch, is almost mind-boggling.
That said, I was wondering if you might provide a bit more "hand-holding" on the install process. I've spent the last 20 years moving through DOS/Amiga/Windows, and switched to the Mac in 2006. While I am pretty comfortable, I won't claim to have a lot of experience with the UNIX underpinnings, and while I believe that I followed the instructions, there were a couple bits that had me scratching my head.
Specifically, I'm not sure exactly where the output folder (/sectors/autogen) is supposed to be created. I've tried a couple of locations, but don't know if I've gotten it right. The other issue, perhaps connected, is that I am getting a "command not found" whenever pdftk is called (lines 810, 830, etc). I installed the Mac OS X package that was on PDFHacks, and it appears to have installed correctly - all of the files are where they are supposed to be. It said that it was for OS X 10.3 only, but I assumed that just meant it wouldn't work with 10.2 or earlier.
As I said, I'm not sure if both issues are related - I'm not sure if the pdftk error is occurring because my output folder isn't in the right place, or if it isn't finding the installed file properly, or if I'm missing something else entirely.
Also, the PDF-API2 install wasn't straightforward - I followed the instructions that were included with it, but ran into permissions issues until I ran the install with sudo, so I'm not entirely sure if the process completed properly. I believe it did, but it's very difficult to know for sure, since the install process goes by very quickly. It appears that everything ended up in /Library/Perl/5.8.6/PDF, so that appears correct.
Thanks in advance for any pointers you can give me, and thanks again for all the effort you've already put into this project. This is on a Core Duo iMac, by the way - congratulations on your new MacBook Pro!
http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=10806&page=23
Rick