Re: Office File Status?

[Veerapuram Varadhan <vvaradhan novell com>]

O'Grady Stephen wrote:
> thx Matt, i did see that.
>
> what i'm trying to figure out is why my OOo files aren't being indexed 
> right now, and i'm assuming that i need what Trow called a separate 
> filter. so what i'm trying to figure out is whether or not there's a 
> separate filter component that i need to download and compile, or 
> whether my Beagle is simply misbehaving by not crawling this content out 
> of the box. my PDF's aren't being crawled either, from what i can tell.
Beagle crawls in breadth-first method.  In case if you had tried beagle 
long back, probably, you might want to swipe off the existing 
beagle-index files (typically, rm -rf .beagle) and restart beagle for 
re-indexing.  Or otherwise, copy your OOo files to your home directory 
and beagle will pick it up instantaneously and indexes it immediately. 
I am assuming that you have proper latest inotify kernel in place.

> so when i'm asking about where the filters are, i'm looking for 
> something to download. but maybe there's nothing to download.

Filters are contained in <prefix>/beagle/Filters/Filters.dll.  The 
supported filetypes are those that are listed in beagle site.  By 
default, you get all those filters installed along with beagle. 
However, there are few dependencies/packages required for few filters to 
work.

They are:
	Package/Dependency		Filter/Filetype
	1) wv1 				MS Word (*.doc)
	2) gsf-sharp			MS Powerpoint (*.ppt)
	3) pdfinfo (command line tool)  PDF (*.pdf)

The above dependency/packages are required for beagle to index these files.

HTH,

V. Varadhan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Jones [mailto:mattharrison sbcglobal net]
> Sent: Sun 1/30/2005 11:51 PM
> To: O'Grady Stephen
> Cc: Jon Trowbridge; Dashboard
> Subject: RE: Office File Status?
>
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/#filetypes
>
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 22:38 -0600, O'Grady Stephen wrote:
>  > maybe i'm being obtuse, but where are the filters? i don't see them on
>  > the wiki or the project webpage.
>  >
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Jon Trowbridge [mailto:trow novell com]
>  > Sent: Sun 1/30/2005 11:06 PM
>  > To: O'Grady Stephen
>  > Cc: Dashboard
>  > Subject: Re: Office File Status?
>  >
>  > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 22:23 -0500, Stephen O'Grady wrote:
>  > > i'm a bit
>  > > unclear on whether OpenOffice files are supported natively by
>  > Beagle,
>  >
>  > OpenOffice files are support by Beagle.  There is a separate
>  > OpenOffice
>  > filter.
>  >
>  > > might it make sense to have a page on the Wiki that gives current
>  > status
>  > > vis a vis indexability for Beagle/Dashboard? or is it there and i've
>  > > simply missed it? PDF, i believe, is still absent.
>  >
>  > There is a list at www.gnome.org/projects/beagle, but it might be
>  > incomplete.  We've had PDF for a while... it is supported via a filter
>  > that runs the pdfinfo program.
>  >
>  > -J
>  >
>  >
>  >
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