According to Joe R. Jah:
> I run XPDF version .80 on a BSDI 4.0 box. I use htDig 3.1.1 in
> conjunction with XPDF to index the pdf documents. This morning I got
> several of the folowing error messages from my cron:
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Error (1024): PDF version 1.3 -- xpdf supports version 1.2 (continuing anyway)
> Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
> Error: Top-level pages object is wrong type (null)
> Error: Couldn't read page catalog
> ______________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> They result from the following documents that someone unleashed yesterday;)
[snip]
> Any ideas?
I assume the documents were generated by Adobe Acrobat 4.0? As the message
above says, the version of the PDF is higher than what xpdf (and therefore
pdftotext) supports. Can they be viewed with Acrobat Reader 3.0? If not,
you may have problems with more than just indexing, unless your users all
upgrade their Reader. You may want to investigate if Acrobat will allow
you to "downgrade" the documents to PDF version 1.2 until everything is
upgraded to support the newer format.
Let's hope Derek finds the time to upgrade xpdf to handle 1.3! :-)
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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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