PDF not working in Greenstone

If some of your PDF files cannot be built on greenstone, then they are some ways that you may use to solve your problem

1. Install the pdb-box plugin, for Greenstone 2.85 please have a look here
2. Convert your PDF to a lower version 1.5 or 1.4. Have a look here on how to proceed.

If you still have a problem or has found a better solution please drop a comment.

pdf-box plugin for greestone 2.85

I have noticed that they are many version of pdf-box plugin available out there. If by mistake you install a wrong one your Librarian Interface may fail to start. If you have greenstone 2.85 installed , you can try the plugin available in the following link. At least at the time of writing of this post, it was working properly.
I you have any further problem, knock me and will happy to help.

Note: You should put the extracted pdf-box in the ...\Greenstone\ext and restart the server.

Now that you've installed the PDFBox extension, this will be available as an option in the plugin's configuration dialog. To turn on the PDFBox extension for any collection you open in GLI, you would go to the Design panel, select Document Plugins from the left and on the right, double click the PDFPlugin (alternatively, select this plugin and click the <Configure Plugin...> below) to open the dialog to configure this plugin. In the Configure Plugin... dialog, scroll down to the section AutoLoadConverters and select the checkbox next to the pdfbox_conversion option. Click OK to close the dialog, switch to the Create panel and rebuild your collection. This time, PDF files will be processed by PDFBox which will extract their text.
Try this feature out on a collection of recent PDF files, by configuring its PDFPlugin with the pdfbox_conversion option turned on.

Change PDF version : Converting a PDF from one version to another

Are you having hard time trying to convert your PDF file from one version to another ? It is a common scenario with some software not accepting the latest version of PDF. I faced a similar probelm working a Greenstone library software which could only process at most the version 1.4.
No matter what you are going through this post is going help you move on with your task.

1. Download PDFCreator, don't panic as far as I know it is free.
    Jsut install it and it is straight forward.

2. Check the version of your PDF version
    Open the file with a pdf reader like acrobat ---> File --->Properties.
 

 

As you can see the version of this file is 1.6, so we have to convert it to lower one. 

3.  Launch PDFCreator:

   You will have the following small interface.

Click on Add and brwose to the file location. and you will get a pop window

4. Wait for 1 to 2 minutes you will get another windows

5. Click on Options :

 The button at the bottom center. And follow.

6. Click on Format:
 At the left side you see format, under click PDF.
Then at the right side set the Default settings (Ebook for my case),
Under compatibility choose your desired version (In my case i chose Adobe Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)).
Click on save and wait for a while. Your converted pdf will pop up.
Just save it and enjoy.
 Sorry for being long, I will try to come up with another short and better way on the matter in another post, till then stay tuned.
Aurevoir !!!!!!!

Greenstome Remote Server Error: Server returned HTTP response code: 403

Are you trying to remotely access your librarian interface and getting the following error message : Server returned HTTP response code: 403. 

To solve it you need to enable external connection from the server.:

Start --> Programs ---> Greenstone-2.8X -->Greenstone Server -->File --->Settings ---> Check Allow External Connections.