RE: Vern (or anyone), creating PDF indexes

To create an index (.pdx), use Acrobat Catalog. It is part of Adobe Acrobat.
It is not free. I have Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and the instructions for creating a
.pdx are in Indexing Document Collections section of the Acrobat user
manual.

The free Adobe Reader(6.0.2 is the most recent version) allows you to search
a pdf that is part of a .pdx. In this case, you can do boolean searches. 

You can use the free Adobe Reader 6.0.2 to search one or more pdfs that are
not part of a .pdx. You get the list of hits across multiple books, but you
cannot do boolean searches. To try this method: Save all the pdfs that you
want to search at once in the same location. Open Adobe Reader 6.0.2. Click
Edit >Search. In the Search PDF section that appears, specify your word or
phrase, click All PDF Documents in > Click the dropdown arrow & browse to
the location where you stored the pdfs. Click Search.

You can download Adobe Reader 6.0.2 here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html#reader602full


Patrice


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:37 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Vern (or anyone), creating PDF indexes


Once upon a time ago, like Dec. 2002, Vern wrote
(http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200212/msg00109.html):

> There was once a version of the libraries (somewhere around
> v3r6?) that had all the books in both Reader and in Acrobat
> format. And the Acrobat set had a couple indexes. These were
> FANTASTIC (no flame intended, just enthusiastic) - they gave
> you a list of hits, just as the Reader did, and they went
> across multiple books.
>
> This index is not hard to create, AFAIK. We have Acrobat, and
> the index creation is just a menu option. AFAIK, you do need
> the actual books on hand, so searches across the net may not
> be feasible.
>
> In addition, the use of so many soft-coded hyperlinks that
> break when you download the PDF would make this hard.
>
> When I get some time (heh) I might try generating such an
> index. There's a special version of Acrobat (still free) for
> these, but it might be worth it. Will let you all know.

Couldn't find whether you "let us all know" how this turned out.  Is there a
"special version of Acrobat (still free)" for creating PDF indexes?

tia,
db

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