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publishing a CD catalog

mikeandthebear
Registered: Jan 15 2007
Posts: 2

We want to produce our printed catalog on CD using Acrobat to allow searchines. Are there any tutorials or white papers available that can help us?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7, Windows
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
Several aftermarket books are available on Acrobat (Donna Baker, Doug Sahlin, John Deubert, Adobe Systems Classroom in a Book, and others) and all provide you a nice explanation for using Acrobat Search and creating catalogs.

Now with Acrobat 8 you have the ability to embed an index file in a PDF document that can be copied to a CD-ROM. Just open a PDF and select Advanced > Document Processing > Manage Embedded Index. Acrobat will auutomatically create and embed the index for you.If you have a collection of PDF files you want to copy to a CD-ROM. Use Acrobat Catalog to create the index and copy the index files along with your PDFs to the CD. It's very intuitive and doesn't need a lot of detail explanation.

Play with it and if you have any problems, come back and post another question.

Best wishes,

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.