| Gabriel Lincourt 2005-09-08, 5:46 pm |
| wow, thanks for that!
I just talked to our server admin, and he said OES sp1 and NW6.5 sp4 are one in the same (I don't keep up very well at the os level) and he is planning on installing it once he has checked to make sure it won't break anything else (sp3 broke a number of t
hings, like NetStorage.....).
So that is good news for me, but I guess I will have to wait a couple of weeks for him to do the upgrade, before I can index PDFs again.
I will try to remember to post my results here, once I have tried QuickFinder on sp4/OES.
Thanks again for your help,
Gabe
On a side note:
I wonder if QuickFinder 4.0 uses Java for searching PDF content? I read a rumor somewhere that Novell was considering doing that for GroupWise (which has also had a heck of a time searching PDFs in the past).
I don't know how forward compatible the Java classes are, but they can't be any worse than what Novell has been producing (I know it is difficult with the proprietary encoding and all.....but the fact of the matter is, Novell did manage to go from sort of
being able to index 6.0 PDFs to not being able to do it at all!)
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Hi Gabriel-
I tested your files and the Acrobat 6 version does indeed fail on Web
Search 3.0. However, they index fine on Quickfinder *4.0*, which is what
I mistakenly thought you were running when you said "netware 6.5 sp3".
Sorry for that.
In any case, you can upgrade to OES (which is really just NW6.5 sp3 with
the new goodies like iManager 2.5 and Quickfinder 4.0) and then be able
to index your Acrobat 6 PDF.
PDFs are very difficult beasts for Novell to code for, as there are so
many variations and flavors and the "spec" is constantly changing. This
is why the newer versions (eg Quickfinder 4.0) always do a better job
than the prior version(s). According to one of the developers, there are
even more PDFs fixes in OES SP1, which was recently released. If you
need PDFs indexed properly I highly recommend you upgrade to at least
OES, and then SP1 when possible.
--
Jim
NSC SYsop
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