The challenge is that it is a native application and platform dependent. So, I suspect it will more than likely always be a just a option for those platforms its available on. But the lesson here is that we need to have platform specific alternatives available and that often those alternatives will be much more optimal on those platforms they are available on.
Mark -- Mark R. Diggory @mire - http://www.atmire.com On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Jeffrey Trimble<jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu> wrote: > Mark, > Yes, I am looking at implementing XPDF, but I need to really build it on > a test server--just need the time to get it up and running. This is a > little > more involved that just a config file. > If XPDF really solves some of the memory and heap dump problems, > should it (XPDF) be implemented as default, instead of the default PDFBox > that comes > out-of-the-box with DSpace at some point? (Hint, DSpace 2.0) > --jat > Jeffrey Trimble > System LIbrarian > William F. Maag Library > Youngstown State University > 330.941.2483 (Office) > jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu > http://www.maag.ysu.edu > http://digital.maag.ysu.edu > "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" > > > On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Mark Diggory wrote: > > Jeff, > > Have you looked at all into using the XPDF Filter instead, it requires > some native configuration, but if you have xpdf on your system, you > may be able to get past these errors. > > http://www.dspace.org/1_5_2Documentation/ch05.html#N12768 > > Mark > > -- > Mark R. Diggory > @mire - http://www.atmire.com > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Jeffrey Trimble<jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu> wrote: > > I've had a large number of PDF's that are not processed by filter-media. > > One in particular caused me a heap dump. > > I instituted the -s flag in filter-media with a file that lists, separated > > by a comma. The file seems to be ignored by the > > program. So what's what here? > > ./filter-media -s 'less /irmaag/filter_skiplist.txt' is the command I am > > using. > > It looks if I took the list and added it manually to the end of the -s flag > > 1989/8745,1989/8747 ad nauseam, it > > "seems to work". BUT, is there a particular order these need to be in? It > > looks like I need to have them in the > > order that filter media expects them in. > > When I look at the results, id's that appear in the list early on, but > > filter media hasn't come across are ignored. In > > other words, if it looks at the list and the first number on the list isn't > > matched, nor the next 5, but then it finds a match, > > it skips the match. If those first 5 numbers now appear, it ignores the > > skiplist for those numbers and you get > > the annual ERROR filter messages. So, my assumption is that I must have > > that skiplist in the exact order as they > > appear in the output. > > We are running 1.5.2. Any thoughts or ideas? > > TIA, > > --Jeff > > Jeffrey Trimble > > System LIbrarian > > William F. Maag Library > > Youngstown State University > > 330.941.2483 (Office) > > jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu > > http://www.maag.ysu.edu > > http://digital.maag.ysu.edu > > "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > > _______________________________________________ > > DSpace-tech mailing list > > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
