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Subject:Re: Indexing Macro for Word From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:46:25 -0500
Robert_Johnson -at- percussion -dot- com wrote:
>
>We deliver a small library of documents to support a tool and associated
>API. We want to create a Master Index to all of these documents. I want
>to generate the Master Index by consolidating the indices of all documents
>in the library. We generate these documents into MS Word and eventually
>into .pdf files.
Bob,
I don't know how much success you will have with that approach (really, I just don't know--it may work fine); but here's something that may be just as effective and is certainly easier, although it doesn't have the elegance of a carefully prepared index:
You can use Acrobat Catalog (it's on the Tools menu in Acrobat) to generate a full-text concordance index of a directory of PDFs. Acrobat Reader with Search (not the standard Acrobat Reader but also a free download) can then be employed by users to find all documents that meet their search criteria.
Features that you can enable include keywords and other document-specific properties (title, author, ...)and custom properties, word stemming, skip lists, etc.
I indexed a massive document set for a major hardware/software project this way, and users loved it.
YMMV, of course.
Dick
>
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