Re: Vern (or anyone), creating PDF indexes

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

db

Sorry if I was not clear - work is murk - there was never a free product to 
create the indexes, but the reader has been free, and that was what I meant 
to say.   ;-)

Vern

At 11:36 AM 7/22/2004, you wrote:
> 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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