From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 15:19:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blockhead.mincom.com (blockhead1.mincom.com [203.55.175.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59CB14F4A for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:19:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philh@mincom.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by blockhead.mincom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA51833; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:23:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from philh@mincom.com) Received: from porthole.mincom.oz.au(172.17.100.2) via SMTP by blockhead.mincom.oz.au, id smtpdb51831; Thu Dec 23 09:23:47 1999 Received: (from philh@localhost) by porthole.mincom.oz.au (8.9.3/8.8.5) id JAA06962; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:19:22 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:19:22 +1000 From: Phil Homewood To: "Julian C. Dunn" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Indexing PDF files Message-ID: <19991223091922.I1406@mincom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Julian C. Dunn on Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:36:08AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian C. Dunn wrote: > Allegedly ht://dig (www.htdig.org) will index PDF files, although I have never > actually tried it. The documentation claims to do so, however. It works, sort of. It chokes on some PDFs on our site, but works on most of them. Requires acroread (version 3; there are comments in the distribution to the effect that version 4 is broke). I suspect the PDFs that are failing are Acrobat 4 format, but haven't cared enough to look at it closely yet. Oh, and it's in /usr/ports/textproc/htdig. -- This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. The contents of this email are the opinion of the writer and are not endorsed by Mincom Ltd unless expressly stated otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message