NYCPHP Meetup

[Donna Marie Vincent]

You can take the user to the correct page in the pdf file?  For example, if the user searches for the phrase "Hello, World", the search results will show a link to the pdf doc that contains that page, and when the user clicks on that link it will open the pdf to the page that has that phrase?


----- Original Message ----
From: Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell at yahoo.com>
To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2008 6:18:48 PM
Subject: Re: [joomla] Quark to html

Highlight the text?  I can do that... It's not easy,
but I can do it... ;-)
--- Donna Marie Vincent <donnamarievincent at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I have a Joomla component that does that.  It's
> called PDF Indexer.  It creates a searchable text
> file for the pdf.  When you find it in the search
> results it tells you which pdf it's in along with a
> link to open the pdf.
> 
> But this client wants the search results to take you
> to the location of the keyword in the pdf.
>  
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell at yahoo.com>
> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 3, 2008 12:55:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Quark to html
> 
> well...  I do have a class that I wrote that can
> extract all text from a pdf...
> 
> BTW, there IS a good site search...  It's called
> Google Mini...
> --- forest mars <compustretch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Graham Spice
> > <graham at nuthinwerked.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Too bad the PDF indexer didn't work - that would
> > have been the best, I
> > > think.
> > >
> > 
> > Adobe had the chance to make pdf the format of
> > choice for moving print media
> > to the web.
> > 
> > They dropped that ball long ago. pdf's work for
> what
> > they are --portable
> > documents-- but are completely inadequate for
> > websites.
> > 
> > Since indexing doesn't work, you're just as well
> off
> > to go with Flash. Oh,
> > and lose the Quark too.
> > 
> > InDesign supports XML templating for print and
> while
> > it has an export
> > function for web based workflows, IMO the better
> > solution is just to call
> > the same XML from Flash that you call from
> InDesign
> > for print. Easy peasy.
> > 
> > Obviously this leaves the indexibility problem
> > unsolved, but preserves the
> > design. Fixing indexibility may likely be a matter
> > of passing off the XML
> > page to the correct handler. If anyone is really
> > interested in this, I'll
> > save it for another email.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Forest
> > -- 
> > "In theory, theory and practice are exactly the
> > same.
> >  In practice, they're completely different."
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