Broken pdfinfo shipped with Zotero [fixed]
By Steffen Müller. Licensed under the Creative Commons License
To index and search PDF files within Zotero, you need the Xpdf tool pdfinfo. As it seems that most versions of pdfinfo are either not compatible with Zotero or broken otherwise, I decided to build it from scratch and provide it for download.
Somehow Zotero needs a slightly customzied version of pdfinfo, which is only available for download via the Zotero configuration dialog. Unfortunately, the actual version seems to be broken on some systems (e.g. Ubuntu Edgy). Therefore, I compiled pdfinfo by myself. You can download the binary if you experience similar problems (no warranty, use at your own risk!):
- pdfinfo binary (gzipped, version 3.02)
- Xpdf sources as tar.gz archive (version 3.02)
- pdfinfo.cc source file, modificated by zotero dev, see Zotero svn
[UPDATE 2007/10/11]
The bug is already fixed and new binaries are provided. Nevertheless, if you still run into the described problems, it might be because the old file still exists in the Firefox cache. Clear the cache or alternatively get the file from:
www.zotero.org/download/xpdf/pdfinfo-Linux-i686-3.02
License
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 3.0. You are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and to remix (to adapt) the work under the following conditions:
- You must attribute the work by mentioning the name of the author (Steffen Müller) and setting a link back to the original article using its URL.
- If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
