[htdig] Acroread Message fixed

[Steve L. <sl...@lu...>]

Hi All,

Thank you all for your help. We took the easy way out for now by putting
in the .pdf and .PDF in the bad_extensions line in the htdig.conf. We'll
be going forward with making htdig reference the pdf files in the near
future.

Steve Lewis
Manager of IT, QA and Manufacturing
Lumeta Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim [mailto:li...@yg...]=20
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:07 AM
To: Steve Lewis
Cc: htd...@li...
Subject: Re: [htdig] Acroread message

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Steve Lewis wrote:

> I'm new to HtDig and have one issue that is bothersome but not a big
> problem. Everytime someone uses the search engine on our site I get a
> message from our cron job as follows:
>
> PDF::parse: cannot find pdf parser /usr/local/bin/acroread

It sounds like htdig is encountering some PDFs and trying to use the=20
default handling mechanism, which is failing due to acroread not being=20
found. If you really want to index the PDFs, you should probably start
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reading http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.9. If you don't care about the=20
PDFs and just want to get rid of the message, it would probably be
easiest=20
to just add .pdf to the bad_extensions attribute.

   http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#bad_extensions


Btw, I suspect what is happening is that you are getting the message you

refer to each time cron tries to execute rundig. Not each time someone=20
uses the search engine on your site. The site search calls htsearch
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doesn't try to parse PDFs or do anything with cron.

Jim