How to integrate PDF searching (and the icon) into MOSS 2007

There are several steps to integrating PDF into SharePoint:

1. Install Adobe iFilter v6.0


2. Configure SharePoint to include PDF files in search


3. Associate the PDF icon with PDF documents

Install Adobe iFilter v6.0

1. Download the iFilter from Adobe (URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611)


2. URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611


3. Run the installer on each Web Application Server


4. Perform an IISReset

Configure SharePoint to include PDF files in search

Add the PDF file type to your search index (in each SSP)

1. Go to your SSP configuration and choose Search Settings


2. Select File Types


3. Click Add File Type


4. Enter pdf in the text box (labeled File extension) and click OK

Associate the PDF icon with PDF documents

1. Download the PDF icon (select 'small 17 x 17') from http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html


2. Give the icon a name (I use pdficon.gif)


3. Save the icon in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES


4. Edit the Docicon.xml file to include the PDF icon


5. Navigate to c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML


6. Open the DOCICON.XML file in Notepad (or an XML editor). You should see that the file has two main tags - ByProgID and ByExtension


7. Within the ByExtension tag, add an entry for the PDF icon Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdficon_small.gif " / (don't forget the brackets!)


8. Save and close the file


9. Perform a full crawl of your content sources

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