> On Mon Feb  7 10:07:32 2000 Anthony Peacock wrote...
> >
> >
> >Can you try converting a single PDF file by running either Acroread or 
> >pdf2text from the command line.  And send the results to the list.
> 
>  pdftotext is the source of the "No current point in closepath" errors.
> 
>  Does this help?

Even when you run it from the command line?

In this case I think you have some broken pdf files.  I had this problem on my 
site a few months ago.  The pdf files had been created with some bad 
constructs in them.  When I got the user to recreate them, the errors went 
away.

> 
>  Runig conv_doc.pl by hand on a specific file does seem to get a usable
>  looking result.
> 
>  Might this be the way to go?
> 
>  Any ideas on why acroread is still called instead of it, when I put,
>  what I beleive to be the correct thing in htdig.conf?
> 
>  external_parsers: apliaction/pdf->text.html /usr/local/bin/conv_doc.pl

I don't use conv_doc.pl, I use parse_doc.pl.

I have sent you the relevant lines from my configuration file.


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Fare Thee Well
Anthony Peacock       
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol." --Larry Wall

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