Re: ht://dig and pdf parsing
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Stijn de Bekker wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I recently took over the htdig debian package and now I'm going
> through all outstanding bugs. Four bugs (#107504, #64385, #67341,
> #102981) are related to the parsing and indexing of PDF files.
>
> Problem is that the path to the acroread reader is compiled in at
> build time. If the program can't find the reader, it complains.
>
> The way I see it, there are two alternatives;
> - Make htdig depend on the non-free acroread package and use the used
> path in that package at compile time. This means that htdig goed
> into contrib.
> - Remove all pdf support from htdig
- Change the path to /usr/bin/htdig-pdf-reader, and make that a script that
calls the right binary. This allows for several pdf readers to be used.
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