Search with xPDFSearch

[vitalyki]

About xPDFSearch plugin: I follow the instructions provided by the authors, see verything he tells me to expect and thus get a list of files that contain the string I was searching for. What next? If I click the F3 button below, I get the first page of the document that I selected from the list but the string in it is not highlighted so I cannot know where to look for it.
Please advise - and many thanks and Happy New Year!
Vitaly

To site administrator: Obsolete entry - better be removed Vitaly 314159a

[sqa_wizard]

xPDFSearch is a content type plugin.

This means, you can use it to search for special data.
Obviously you successfully did it : You found a matching file.
That's all what a content plugin is for.

Pressing F3 button on that file will raise the Lister application (may with a lister plugin for the special file type)
Now it is up to the Lister plugin to handle the display and to evaluate the search result.

BTW: which lister plugin do you use to show the PDF file ?

[vitalyki]

Hi, thanks.
I use pdfview.wlx. If I understand you correctly, xPDFSearch finds the file containing the string, so the next step is to use another software/plugin to find that string in the pdf file. Correct?
Vitaly

[sqa_wizard]

Correct?

Yes, it is up to pdfview.wlx to show the string to you.
I don't know, if there is a way for a lister plugin to retrieve the search string from the search dialog (such as pure TC lister does ...)

[Lefteous]

Some suggestions I made on how to improve the work with full text content plug-ins:

http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/Use_internal_Lister_for_converted_text_files
http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/Show_context_of_place_of_finding_in_text_searches
http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/Integrate_fulltext_content_plugin_fields_into_find_text