Gilles Detillieux (email@example.com)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 13:04:08 -0500 (CDT)
According to firstname.lastname@example.org:
> I just installed htdig and it is working great for HTML and text files but
> then I run the htdig program I get the following error message.
> sh:/usr/local/bin/acroread: no such file or directory
> I have Acrobat 4.0 installed but /usr/local/bin/ is empty. I'm sure its
> something simple but how do I get it to index these files correctly?
A few points to consider:
1) the ht://Dig configure script currently expects to find acroread in
/usr/local/bin, and sets that as the default location even if it doesn't
find it. You need to set pdf_parser to indicate an alternate location,
and you must include the two options it needs.
2) a bug in Acrobat 4 makes it a poor choice for a pdf parser for htdig.
Its -pairs option causes a segmentation violation, so you'd need to kludge
up a wrapper script for it so it could work without that option.
3) a lot of users have had more success using pdftotext as part of an
external parser, rather than using acroread.
See the following for details:
-- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <email@example.com> 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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