Re: Office File Status?

[Hargitai Gábor <higany sch bme hu>]

You should mention the wv1 and pdfinfo optional dependencies on the
wiki. pdfinfo is the part of xpdf (at least on gentoo).

Üdv
Gábor


Veerapuram Varadhan írta:
> 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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