One of the features I have adored for years with Acrobat was the integration of Acrobat with Outlook and the ability to convert single messages, entire folders of messages and appending additional messages to folders of pdf'd messages.
Version 8.0 seems to have changed the ability to do that in a way that seems irrational to me. Now I get some kind of listing of each message in a separate window, and a single message in a larger window. There is a "find" mini-window in the toolbar that lets me search that single message for anything I want to. The problem here is that I cannot ever remember searching a single message for anything, ever. In the main, I have a tendency to search a group, or folder, of messages for a particular search string. But again, never have I searched just a single message.
The search feature in 8.0 is now reduced to a "find" window in the toolbar. The more robust "search" feature relegated to its standard position beneath the "edit" pulldown. Now this "find" feature, integrated with the single message window feature of 8.0 is akin to what they call down under as a "Clayton's" feature. Clayton's is a non-alcoholic beer, and the jingle goes "Clayton's is the beer you drink when you are not drinking a beer". And just like that, anything that wasn't what it was became a Clayton's this or that.
As much as I hate to say it, the new "find" mini-window is a Clayton's upgrade, as is the ability to produce an almost unuseable master archive of Outlook messages that become cumbersome to search with whatever means one can spend one's precious time machinating.
What I would really like to do is take these new Acrobat 8.0 Outlook message archives and convert them all to Acrobat 7 style archives, with the old familiar sidebar allowing me to sort them by date, sender etc. Other software providers thoughtfully provide a thing known as a "save as" feature, such that files can be saved in a previous format to users that may not be so avante-gard (or often smarter) as to have downgraded to the new upgrade.
This is one of those classic, and not so infrequent times, where after I find a fix for this unknowing mistake, I will be sorely tempted to downgrade to the previous version until such time as an upgrade truly becomes available.
So, any way to convert these 8.0 generated files into a 7.0 useable (and useful) format?
Sincerely,
Bill
P.S. One of my favorite sayings is that when a mathematician sits down to solve a math problem with a pencil, which should he be more concerned with? The math problem? Or the pencil? Once again, the pencil becomes the problem..........
