Capabilities of PDF

[REJ-D -at- betasystems -dot- com]

Chaim,

Shlomo has already replied to your message. My answer is pretty much along
the same lines, namely that all the things you mentioned are supported by
PDF.

1) Hyperlinks should be done in color (similar to Internet pages)

   In our PDF-files, links are blue and underlined, because
   this is internet standard. (To achieve this, the formatting
   has to be applied in the source document; in Framemaker and
   in Word, you would normally use styles to apply this formatt-
   ing more or less automatically.)

2) Word search capability for the manuals

   There's two ways of finding information in PDF files:

   a) The Find command searches the file that is currently
      open for the specified word or string (sequential search);

   b) The Search command searches an index for the specified
      word or expression; the index is created using Acrobat
      Catalog

      Notes: The search command is not available in the basic
      version of Acrobat Reader, but requires the free Search
      plug-in; the Search command is not available for PDF-files
      on web servers.

3) Under Acrobat 4, you can change the pagination of PDF-files
   using the command Document > Number Pages. For example, you
   can define no page numbers for Title and Copyright, Roman
   page numbers for front matter, and arabic page numbers for
   the body of the manual; this makes it a lot easier to navigate
   the pages of PDF files via their numbers. Shlomo's message
   contains information on applying these page labels auto-
   matically during PDF conversion.

Hope this helps,
Reinhard