I think another possibility is to create a category for your PDF files. This way the user can select from the drop down box "PDF files" and then search for "answer*" and it will be restricted to just the PDF files.
Click under "Configure"->"Categories" and click on the Help button there for more details. The Pattern can be something like ".pdf" for the category.
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I'm in offline mode. From what I can tell, this is my only option really. I have a file server that is just a file server (no web). The only website it runs is for this search index - specifically for searching for files, and also it has directory browsing enabled at the root of the file structure so that when zoom finds a hit, the URL it creates will reference the file on web server so the user can open it.
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Are you using offline mode or spider mode?
Are these files on a web server or a file server?
I think there is a potentially simple solution in V7 of Zoom. It supports the site:" and "url:" search syntax.
So in your case (in V7) this search should do what you want.
url:.pdf
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Filenames with Spaces are troublesome
I have a site that indexes lots of PDF files. Lots of these filenames look like this:
Answer Foo Foo.pdf
Answer Fee Fee.pdf
Answer fubar.pdf
With indexing set to include dots are the same word, a search for "answer*.pdf" (without quotes) returns nothing. Neither does "Answer?*.pdf".
If I disable dots and re-index, a search for "answer*.pdf" actually searches for "answer* pdf" (note the missing "dot") and it returns a lot of stuff I don't want. For this site, it is important to be able to search the file names but there are thousands of them, so renaming is not an option.
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