Re: [Tracker] rtf files not found

[Jerry Tan <Jerry Tan Sun COM>]

and another bad idea is to transform rtf file into txt or word, 
openoffice doc.
tracker support them well.

> Hi Anita,
>
>  At the moment tracker doesn't index rtf files. By default tracker
> doesn't have a rtf filter to extract the text from the files.
>
>  If you really need the rtf support, you can install "unrtf" in your
> system, and create a "filter script"
> in /usr/local/lib/tracker/filters/application (if you are in a linux
> based system).
>
>  The script name must be "rtf_filter" and must contain the following:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> nice -n19 unrtf --text  "$1" > "$2"
>
>  This solution is VERY slow, and the encoding of the result is ASCII
> instead UTF8, but at least you can search in rtf files.
>
>  Regards,
>
> Ivan
>  
> El dom, 02-03-2008 a las 18:55 -0500, ext Anita Lewis escribiÃ:
>   
> > Hi.  I'm using tracker 0.6.3.  I find that when I search on a word
> > contained in an rtf file, it does not get found.  If I save the rtf as
> > odt or txt, the search finds it.  rtf files do get found if the search
> > term is in the name of the file.
> >
> > Is this expected behavior?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Anita
> >
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