Kfind pdfs

Martin Steigerwald martin at lichtvoll.de
Thu Oct 8 14:07:53 BST 2015


Hi.

Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2015, 12:25:21 CEST schrieb Mark Ballard:
> I presume this is well known, but feel I must report it as an error.
> 
> Kfind, a most brilliantly-endowed search tool, appears unable to find text
> in pdf files. It seems odd to me because I thought I would have noticed
> this before now, and kfind has such an extraordinarily long list of formats
> it does handle specifically that it is incredible to think it doesn't
> handle pdfs.
> 
> Can I be doing something wrong?

I think with Baloo enabled Alt-F2 will find PDFs by their filenames and 
contents. But I just find that it does not appear to work consistently with 
PDF on Plasma 5.4.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.14 / self compiled from master here, 
whereas for OpenDocument files it seems to work.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin
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