Re: beagle problem with indexing pdf files

From: Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>
To: Jan Falkenhagen <spam to f lkenhagen de>
Cc: dashboard-hackers gnome org
Subject: Re: beagle problem with indexing pdf files
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:04:25 -0400

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:11 +0200, Jan Falkenhagen wrote:
> i've got a problem with beagle indexing pdf documents. Sometimes pdf
> indexing causes very high cpu and memory consumption of the pdftotext
> process (>1.5 GB of RAM). however i guess that this occurs only with
> some broken pdf files. is there any simple way to track down this
> behaviour to the files that are causing this problem? 

This is a bug in the xpdf software (from which pdftotext comes), and I'd
suggest you report a bug to their developers.

If you'd like, you can attach a broken PDF to a beagle bug and we can
see what we can do to work around it.

Joe

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