where is the doc2html.pl script the site is not working.. or could be im
dropping connections... when is the move to source forge going to be
complete.
Ron
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Ronald Edward Petty:
> > 1) if a pdf is in ur directory that is searched with htdig, other than the
> > name of the file.. is the contents looked at? If so how... I know there
> > is something to do with external parsers but i can't find out if this
> > works or not. I thought i read there is an internal one that does it a
> > little, but if this is true I cant search a single word in the given pdf.
> >
> > any documentation on this?
>
> http://htdig.sourceforge.net/attrs.html#external_parsers
> http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#q4.9
>
> The name of the file will not be indexed unless it appears in the link
> description text of the document that links to this file (e.g. in an
> automatically generated directory index from Apache).
>
> There is a partially internal PDF parser in 3.1.x, which requires
> the acroread (Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0) program to convert PDF files
> to PostScript. We don't recommend using this approach. Also, the FAQ
> entry above is a bit dated, and we don't recommend using parse_doc.pl
> as an external parser either. You should use conv_doc.pl, or better
> still, doc2html.pl, as an external converter script. Does it work?
> You bet it does! I index dozens of PDFs on our site. Just follow the
> instructions that come with the script you use, and be sure to configure
> it correctly and install all the conversion programs that the script uses
> (especially the xpdf 0.90 or 0.91 package that converts PDFs).
>
> --
> Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
> Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
> Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
>
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