At 12:37 19/06/01 +0100, David Adams wrote:
>If you are using version 3.0 of doc2html, then script doc2html.pl calls a
>separate script, pdf2html.pl, to do the conversion. This script in turn
>calls pdfinfo and pdftotext from the xpdf package.
>
>1) Try using both pdfinfo and pdftotext from the command line.
> If they don't work then either you hav'nt installed them properly or
>there is
> something wrong with your .PDF file.
They work
>2) Call pdf2html.pl from the command line:
>
> <full path name>pdf2html.pl <pathname to .PDF file>
>
> to check that it is producing HTML output.
It does
>3) If it does not work then check your installation of pdftotext, and
>your tailoring of pdf2html.pl.
>
>4) Else if it does work then try doc2html.pl from the command line:
>
> <full path name>doc2html.pl <pathname to .PDF file> application/pdf
>Name
It works from the command line - I had to but e:\cygwin\bin back into the
path because something (what?) needs gzip. The doc2html log file contains
? [application/pdf] PDF (pdf2html) 15680
But it still doesn't work when called by htdig. Furthermore - the log file
isn't created. Does this mean doc2html isn't being called properly?
>Hope that helps.
>
>--
>David Adams
>Computing Services
>Southampton University
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Marcus Valentine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "David Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:29 AM
>Subject: Re: [htdig] doc2html.pl version 3 problems under windows NT
>
>
>> At 09:48 19/06/01 +0100, David Adams wrote:
>> >Ok, I should not have assumed you were running some form of Unix.
>> >
>> >If you have success with:
>> >
>> >set TMPDIR=d//
>> >./htdig -i -c ../conf/htdig.conf
>> >
>> >Try
>> >
>> >set DOC2HTML_LOG
>> >set TMPDIR=d//
>> >./htdig -i -c ../conf/htdig.conf
>> >
>> >which should increase the information you get out of doc2html.pl
>> >
>> >Did you have to modify doc2html to get it to work under DOS? If so I
>would
>> >like to know
>> >what changes you made so that they can go into the next release.
>>
>> I didn't realise doc2html.pl hadn't been tested under DOS. I have got it
>> to work at the DOS command line under the following conditions:
>>
>> 1. Must use cygwin perl (#!e:/cygwin/bin/perl.exe -w). Activeware perl
>> doesn't work as the script doesn't find the input pdf file for some
>reason.
>>
>> 2. I hardcoded $TMP = "d:/tmp"; for certainty
>>
>> 3. I hardcoded $LOG = "d:/conv.log"; and $Verbose = 1;
>>
>> But still when it's invoked from htdig nothing appears in the log, and the
>> pdfs aren't indexed.
>>
>> There appear to be a number of lines in the script that windows may have
>> problems with, e.g.
>>
>> $RM = "/bin/rm -f";
>>
>> Marcus Valentine
>>
>> >If you are using the C-shell then that would become:
>> >
>> >setenv DOC2HTML_LOG
>> >setenv TMPDIR=d//
>> >./htdig -i -c ../conf/htdig.conf
>> >
>> >Whereas Bourne Shell and (I think) Bash it would be:
>> >
>> >DOC2HTML_LOG=""
>> >TMPDIR=d//
>> >export DOC2HTML_LOG, TMPDIR
>> >./htdig -i -c ../conf/htdig.conf
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >David Adams
>> >Computing Services
>> >Southampton University
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