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PDF IFilter 8 – Official Adobe 64-bit Support

Hi, I'm here at the Developer Academy Day in Airport City and between the great lectures and the awesome lunch – I've managed to find a few minutes to blog. I guess the Live Blogging ordeal that we have here got the best of me as well. Damm, I never thought I'll find myself giving up on desert to post a new blog… Anyway, this post is actually a new chapter for the ever-lasting issue of PDF IFilter and 64Bit (As you may remember, the last update was by FoxIT and her PDF IFilter for 64...

Just Released - PDF IFilter for x64 Bit!

Hey all, I've recently posted about the problem we have with PDF IFilters and x64 bit. In the solutions area, I've mentioned a company called Foxit that was rumored to be developing a compatible version. Guess what? THEY'RE DONE and IT'S FREE!!! Here's a brief from the release notes: Foxit PDF IFilter supports following Microsoft products: Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server, Exchange Server...

PDF IFilter for x64 bit

Never get tired of this burning issue and all of the related questions so I decided to try and put all the answers in this one post. Let's review the problem first: Adobe does not have a x64 version of the PDF IFilter for MOSS and so far there are no immediate plans from Adobe to develop one. The supported (and thus the safest) way to index PDF files is to use a 32 bit Windows Server version as our Farm's Index server and run the 32 bit version of this IFilter. Of courser, since we can only have...