Comments on: 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 3

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:07:57 +0000

@Roberto ! Fantastic, thanks!

By: Roberto Allende

Roberto Allende — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:06:12 +0000

Hello
This entry is great. I took the freedom to translate it to spanish:
http://plone.org/countries/conosur/documentacion/articulo-8-cosas-verdaderamente-geniales-de-plone-3

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:20:33 +0000

Has anyone enabled this on Windows Vista? I've just discovered Plone (3) and am having some trouble getting the indexing of PDF and Word files to work. I tried installing xpf, but apparently its not working. I'd be grateful for any assistance.

Thanks,

Steve

By: Daniel Nouri

Daniel Nouri — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:50:47 +0000

@Finaly: Have you saved your PDF file again? This will re-index your file, this time hopefully with the text contents of your PDF file. Also note that, out of the box, files will only be indexed for the standard Plone File type. (Third party product developers will have to specify ’searchable=True’ in their AT FileField.)
wvware and pdftotext don’t ship with Plone. According to their homepage, wvware is available for Mac. BTW, Word on Windows will work, too.

By: Finlay Boo

Finlay Boo — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:11:03 +0000

@ Daniel. Thanks for the pointer. After looking at AttachmentField I noticed that conversion weren’t available. A search of my system did find wvware and pdftotext but they were both .exe files and as a Mac user, obviously not much would have happened with them. Are this supposed to install with the Plone installation?

I’ve just installed a Mac version of pdftotext and although the results aren’t showing up in searches, tests with AttachmentField show that conversions are now working so some more tweaking will probably get this functioning properly. Now I just need to locate a Mac compatible Word convertor.

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:08:32 +0000

@ Daniel - aha! I did have both of those packages already on my system, so it worked magically. I’ll update the article to reflect this. Thanks for clarifying!

By: Daniel Nouri

Daniel Nouri — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:53:53 +0000

The Word document indexing will work if you have a Word to HTML transform in portal_transforms, i.e. wvware installed. The same goes for PDF files and pdftotext / xpdf.

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:56:19 +0000

@Finlay - Word & PDF indexing worked for me, right out of the box, no configuration needed. I was surprised to see that this was the case. Perhaps some Plone 3 guru can shed more light on the topic.

By: Finlay Boo

Finlay Boo — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:52:32 +0000

It’s certainly a great release with an impressive set of functions. However, one of the eight you picked up on (Automatic full-text searching of Word and PDF files) doesn’t seem to be enabled in the RC and the Beta I’ve been fiddling with. Is there somewhere in the ZMI that I have to enable this?

By: John

John — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:06:52 +0000

Just in reference to Jason’s question about captions. By default the description field of the image is what is displayed as the image caption. From what I have read I think you can specify other fields to be used as the caption but I haven’t tried that.