RE: Adobe Acrobat versions - what do I need for catalog (indexing)?

["Monique Semp" <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

FWIW, here's the Adobe page that compares the Standard, Pro, Extended, and
Reader versions: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html.

Unfortunately, neither catalog nor indexing seems to be included in the
matrix, unless that's what they mean by "Convert documents to PDF/A for
archiving with easy search and retrieval"...

Perhaps the Adobe Forums would help?  When I searched the Acrobat Family
for "pdx", I found lots of things.  Here's the results page URL:
<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?127@@.3bbeda8b>.

HTH,
-Monique

>
> I really only need one feature, the ability to
> index multiple PDF files for searching (they used
> to call this 'catalog' but no longer it seems).
> Adobe's web site is long on marketing drivel, short
> on technical detail, and there seem to be a bazillion
> new features which have no use whatsoever to me,
> so after spending quite a while reading it I'm none
> the wiser.
>
> Does anyone know if the standard version will do
> what I need? Or will I need pro?
>
> Alternately, since I create the PDFs using open source
> software (pdflatex), does anyone know of any free
> (or inexpensive) software to do the same job?
> (i.e., create a .pdx file for a set of pdfs and
> associate that file with each pdf file)?
>


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