As an experiment, using Acrobat Professional 6.0 I saved the Finale User Manual Index as an HTML file. The result, unfortunately, was far less than useful. Line feeds in the pdf document (not surprisingly) were not respected in HTML. The internal Acrobat cross references were lost too. For example, here's what the first entries under "A" look like:
----------------- A A 2 see Expressions About the FINALE.INI file A-26 About the FINMIDI.INI file A-34 Accelerando 24-51 Defining the expression for playback 24-51 Accents see Articulations Accidental Octave Placements dialog box 13-13 Accidental Order and Amount dialog box 13-9 Accidental Settings dialog box 26-8 Accidentals 15-3, 16-1 Add or remove parentheses 15-21 Adding or changing an accidental 16-22 Cautionary Accidentals plug-in 9-23 Changing an accidental to its enharmonic equivalent ----------------- I also use an excellent desktop search engine -- X1 (see www.x1.com). It has indexed inside most of the files on my computer including pdfs. By using it I can quickly find which Finale pdf files reference "incipit" or "anacrusis." As an additional dividend I also found the results for TGTools too! However, I still have to open those files to drill down to the precise reference. Recently I have also been very impressed with Amazon's new Desktop Search Engine. It presently is designed to search inside of Outlook email, Outlook Express email, AOL IM, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Text and web histories. Since Amazon has the capability of searching pdf files online, they can presumably offer that capability to the Desktop Search Engine. But I agree with Jari, the present Acrobat search does a pretty good job. Finale's cross-referencing is nicely implemented. Jim Mays _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
