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on 12/6/03 6:43 PM, ES at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > Thanks for the reply, Dean. Do you happen to know if Acrobat Reader 6 > also has a new search engine that will improve search results on indexes > build with previous versions of Acrobat Catalog? Not sure about that .... Planet PDF has an interview I haven't had the chance to read, with Art Pollard or Lextalk to whom Adobe shopped out the construction of that new engine. See http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2816 >From that article , the following seems to be on point: > "Searching with indexes is still present in Acrobat 6. I know this for > assurity as I (along with others) wrote the search technology [Onix] used in > Acrobat 6.0. There may be some ways that Acrobat's searching has changed from > 5 to 6, but the indexed search is still there. Oh, one thing is that you will > need to recreate the index as the indexes themselves are not compatible." > -- Art Pollard > > > > ***Clarification from Adobe Systems > > Adobe's David Stromfeld, Product Manager/Acrobat has provided the following > clarification to the comment directly above: > > "It is incorrect to state that users will need to always recreate pre-Acrobat > 6-generated indices. If a user has legacy Acrobat-5-generated indices (or > prior), all Windows Acrobat 6 products will be able to open and consume those > indices in order to find particular content in a particular PDF file. There is > no user-intervention required - simply select this older Acrobat-generated > index, enter your search query, and hit "Search". (Macintosh Acrobat 6 > products will not be able to open/consume legacy Acrobat-5-generated indices > (or prior) because the 3rd party search engine technology we used prior to > Acrobat 6 is not available on Mac OS X.) > > > The requirement to open/consume index files in the stand-alone application > (rather than the browser) is by design and is consistent with Acrobat 5. > Browser-viewing is limited to a single document, so searching across multiple > documents and opening multiple documents in a single or multiple browser hth regards dean laffan r e a l w o r l d p r o d u c t i o n s 6 7 l i t t l e g e o r g e s t, f i t z r o y m e l b o u r n e, a u s t r a l i a, 3 0 6 5 ph +613-9419-3966 Mobile 0418-525-315 -- Cancer cures smoking. - Yul Brynner To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
