Installing Foxit 2.x PDF IFilter in SharePoint 2010
Installing Foxit 2.x PDF IFilter in SharePoint 2010 has been a bit of an adventure for me to get working. I found the instructions in bits and chunks on several different sites so I compiled the instructions here from start to finish: 1. Download the IFilter installer and icon from Foxit. 2. Open a command prompt “As Administrator” 3. Run IISRESET /STOP (leave the command prompt open) 4. Launch the MSI installation of the Foxit PDF iFilter 5. Copy the icon file to the following folder: “c:\program files\common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Template\images” 6. Edit the DOCICON.XML in Notepad 7. Add the mapping key for .pdf and the pdficon.gif file. The XML "<<>>"brackets get parsed out of my post so remember to add them: " Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdficon.gif"/ " 8. Save and close the file. 9. Return to the command prompt and run IISRESET /START 10. In the same command prompt window stop and start all the search serv...