On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> According to Gergely Madarasz:
> > I've just got a bugreport from the debian BTS saying that indexing pdf
> > files causes htdig to hang. First I thought it might be the bit modified
> > parse-doc.pl which is included in the .deb package, but it seems it is
> > not. The following happens: htdig only downloads the first 200000 bytes of
> > the pdf: 
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       200000 Feb 29 18:12 /tmp/htdext.28167
> > of course the parser can't handle this since the file is originally much
> > larger and expects additional data. What might cause this ? 
> 
> http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.2

Yeah, I already realized that this is the cause... so I'll comment out the
default external_parsers line in the htdig .deb package... then if one
wants to index pdf files, one should both uncomment this and raise the
max_doc_size value...

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