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 escribió: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tracker-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > tracker-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list > _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
