Acrobat 6 complaints

[M Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

All,

I thought someone might find something useful in my recent experiences with 
Acrobat 6, which is the new version. Also, if you can solve any of these 
things, please speak!

- There are now two versions of Acrobat: Standard and Professional. You 
have to buy Professional to get Acrobat Catalog (which indexes multiple 
PDFs and speeds up searches), even though nothing I could find on the Adobe 
website that informed me of this. I figured it out the hard way. (But a 
miracle occurred: I convinced Fry's to give me a store credit on the opened 
software!!)

- Links to external PDF files are flaky. A link in a PDF file to a specific 
page in another PDF file does not work in Acrobat 6 or Adobe Reader 6. The 
external PDF file is opened to the first page, but it does not take you to 
the defined page within the file. These same links, when attempted in 
Acrobat 4 or 5, work as expected. Interestingly, you can create one of 
these links in Acrobat 6 and have it work in earlier versions, but not in 
version 6.

- The index generated by version 6's Catalog is not compatible with earlier 
versions of Reader (I tried it with 4 and 5). The index works with Reader 
6, though.

- I don't know if a version 6 Catalog index will work with the current 
Unix/Linux Readers, which are not up to 6 yet, but I suspect it won't. The 
index files themselves look very different from version 4 and 5 indexes.

- The new Acrobat 6 Search features, however, is an improvement over the 
old one. But I reinstalled Acrobat 5 to remain compatible with what I need 
to do.

Respectfully,
Mark Giffin