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Subject:Re: Acrobat 4.0 Good News/Bad News From:David Knopf <david -at- KNOPF -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 10 May 1999 08:36:11 -0700
Paul Kortz wrote:
| I have just been evaluating my brand new copy of Acrobat 4.0 and
| I must say
| that the Word to .PDF conversion is about 1000% better. However,
| Adobe seem
| to have taken a large and very strange step backwards. Apparently, the
| Acrobat Reader no longer recognises indexes created in Acrobat Catalog. If
| you want to use the Acrobat full text search feature, you have to buy the
| full product. I have checked the Adobe Support Forums and they
| confirm this.
| Does anyone know whether this is a temporary or regional oversight?
I'm not sure this is true. Adobe has always provided two versions of the
reader: "Acrobat Reader" and "Acrobat Reader + Search." Both are still
available from Adobe per the reader download page at:
