XPDF

RLab

Zotero Standalone, version => 4.0.18, platform => Win32, oscpu => Windows NT 6.1; WOW64, locale => en-US, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 4.0.18

After the installation (full) over a 4.0.17, on Zotero Preferences --> Search PDF Indexing have now "(null) is NOT installed" (in zotero directory there are the "old" "pdfinfo-Win32.exe" and "pdftotext-Win32.exe").

"Check for installer" give a positive reply "Available downloads for Win32 [...]" but when I click on Install, an error message appears: "The Xpdf utilities are not currently available for your platform"

dstillman

Can you provide a Report ID?

dstillman

And is indexing actually broken for you, or just the prefs?

RLab

Thanks, Dan.

Report ID: 1310540765, but the errors seemly unrelated with xpdf problem.

Index statistics show 9 items indexed (and 4161 unindexed)

dstillman

Disable Zotero Auto Index Plugin.

RLab

Thanks, after disabling that, index currently working. So, the new "Much faster full-text indexing" is incompatible with the above mentioned plugin?

dstillman

I don't know specifically why it's broken, but that plugin overwrites core Zotero code in a rather fragile way. I've asked the author (who actually contributed the faster indexing code in 4.0.18) to push out a new version that doesn't do that.

emilianoeheyns

The new version is out. If errorReport.xul could have an id for the first the wizardpage, I'd be happy to add an overlay to all of my plugins that say "don't send error reports with one of friflaj's plugins enabled". I'd otherwise monkey-patch sendErrors (of course) to show a warning before the errors dialog, but that would mean people would get multiple warnings if they have more than one installed.

dstillman

No, that's OK. We can just advise people in a few different places to try disabling Zotero-related extensions before reporting problems. Most of the existing documentation predates our burgeoning plugin ecosystem.

emilianoeheyns

@RlaB the indexer that was in the plugin is part of Zotero 4.0.18. The plugin now only kicks off the indexer automatically, but for the faster per-file indexing, you no longer need it. I will update the README.

RLab

Thanks @Dan Stillman and @emilianoeheyns.
My bad. I hadn't thought of a bad interaction with a plugin, so I haven't checked :-)