Great place to find out which version of SharePoint you’re running on. http://www.mindsharpblogs.com/penny/articles/481.aspx. Big thanks to Penny Coventry for keeping the information up to date.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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PDF iFilter Updates
It’s been a while since I’ve last configure the PDF iFilter for SharePoint. The last one I’ve done was for SPS 2003. For MOSS 2007, the process is pretty much the same, except for file path difference and configuration page changes. Here’s the steps taken from MS KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832809/en-us.
1. | Download Adobe PDF IFilter 5.0 from the following Adobe Web site: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611 (or search Google for latest installer from Adobe).(http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1276) | ||||||||||||
2. | Stop the IIS Admin service. To do this, follow these steps:
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3. | Run the Adobe PDF IFilter 5.0 Setup program to install the filter on the server.
After installing the iFilter, perform Steps 5, 6, and 7 on all the Web Front End servers in the farm. | ||||||||||||
4. | Register the Adobe PDF IFilter. To do this, follow these steps:
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5. | Copy the .gif file that you want to use for the icon to the following folder on the server, as appropriate for your situation: SharePoint Portal Server 2003 - Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\Template\Images SharePoint Server 2007- Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images | ||||||||||||
6. | Edit the Docicon.xml file to include the .pdf extension. To do this, follow these steps:
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7. | Restart the server. | ||||||||||||
8. | Add the .pdf file type to the content index. To do this, follow these steps: (these steps are for SPS2003. MOSS2007’s steps are to go to SSP configuration)
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9. | Update the context indexes for portal content and for non-portal content. To do this, follow these steps: (these steps are for SPS2003. MOSS2007’s steps are to go to SSP configuration)
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For the image icon. Search for a pdf16.gif file using Google Image search, or download from Adobe at here.
References:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/05/19/135273.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832809/en-us
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/
Default MOSS IFilters: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261754.aspx