There are several steps to integrating PDF into SharePoint:
- Install Adobe iFilter v6.0
- Configure SharePoint to include PDF files in search
- Associate the PDF icon with PDF documents
Install Adobe iFilter v6.0
- Download the iFilter from Adobe (URL: https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611)
- URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611
- Run the installer on each Web Application Server
- Perform an IISReset
Configure SharePoint to include PDF files in search
Add the PDF file type to your search index (in each SSP)
- Go to your SSP configuration and choose Search Settings
- Select File Types
- Click Add File Type
- Enter pdf in the text box (labeled File extension) and click OK
Associate the PDF icon with PDF documents
- Download the PDF icon (select ‘small 17 x 17’) from http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html
- Give the icon a name (I use pdficon.gif)
- Save the icon in c:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATEIMAGES
- Edit the Docicon.xml file to include the PDF icon
- Navigate to c:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATEXML
- Open the DOCICON.XML file in Notepad (or an XML editor). You should see that the file has two main tags – ByProgID and ByExtension
- Within the ByExtension tag, add an entry for the PDF icon Mapping Key=pdf” Value=”pdficon_small.gif ” / (don’t forget the brackets!)
- Save and close the file
- Perform a full crawl of your content sources
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