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Is an "Embedded Index" seen/perceived/useable by pdf programs other than Acrobat?
i.e. - is it part of the "pdf standard" & therefore available industry wide?
or is it an Acrobat-only proprietary feature ?
I want to know if users of other pdf applications can see/perceive/use my Embedded Index created in Acrobat Pro 9.
Thanks for your valuable feedback.
(ps - 1st post here, and my Search on "Embedded Index" = 5 pgs but no questions/answers such as mine)
The indexing/search facility associate with Acrobat (and ability to use this with Adobe Reader) was developed specifically for the Adobe products by a vendor.
Adobe changed vendors when Acrobat 6 was developed/released. AFAIK Adobe still licenses the facility from this company.
[ http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2816 ]
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In response to a question a few years ago Leonard Rosenthol stated that the PDX file and associated index files was a private/internal format.
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Consequently, finding some application other than one provided by Adobe may be problematic.
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To check if other, non-Adobe PDF "aware" applications can use the facility your best source of information would be help/customer support provided by those companies.
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