30 Mar
2010
30 Mar
'10
5:43 p.m.
Nils Hammerfest wrote:
This is a question what is the best way to make a lage
amount of pdf files (hundreds of GB, more to come) and make them available for a Local
Area Network of users to print and edit them. Make them searchable and get the file easily
and send them per mail to print.
There is currently a Windows solution including completly unfree tools so that not every
computer can even do the work we are supposed to do because of license restrictions (at
least its all legal). The current windows-based database is slow in access and has a heavy
lag to snyc files, sometimes even hours.
I don't have access to the servers so I can't check whats going on, but I want to
know if there isn't a Linux way :)
Where I work we prepare lots of notation for print and finally print them. There are
sadly no source files: We get generated pdf files from various software from all OS and we
produce scans of existing material. There are few meta information like Composer, Title
and a serial number.
Actual Questions:
1) What Database/Way and Frontend would you use to handle pdf files? (Filesizes per file
>200 kb <200 MB, Multiple files per project/musical piece )
Get a quality enterprise content management system. There is a
full-blown FOSS one called Alfresco that you could try out and see how
it goes:
http://www.alfresco.com/products/networks/compare/
ECMs provide powerful searching capabilities, enhanced by the ability to
tag documents with metadata that make searching and managing them
easier. I would think that categories such as musician, composer,
instruments, etc, might be very useful in your situation.
I'm not a user of Alfresco, I work with its cousin, EMC Documentum.
(Alfresco was founded by one of the men who founded Documentum.)
Documentum has been described by some as the Maserati of ECM (it can do
practically anything anyone might want to do in the ECM field, but costs
a LOT and takes a lot of experienced help!)
2) Do you know any free PDF editor besides
"PDFEdit" (which seemed fine from screenshots and descriptions, but first tries
were not successful)
Sorry, have no clue there, the usual advice about editing PDFs is to
edit the SOURCE document and regenerate the PDF. PDFs really aren't
intended to be edited - text editing even in Adobe Acrobat is tedious.
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