Would be great if IBM made the indexing thing work with non-Adobe PDF readers 
such as Sumatra, which is extremely light-weight and open source.
Adobe is phenomenally bloated for just reading PDFs.

- KB

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On Thursday, April 15, 2021 3:28 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

> The only reason I considered the Adobe PDF Reader was the PDF index :-(
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> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of 
> Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte
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> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:04:12 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
> > Is there a Linux or OS/2 version?
>
> From:
> https://secure-web.cisco.com/1YNryuxyycl_mHud6DdKX7mwy4-Esxz2_zeQ6rdXCWogqHzqz2e4SKYOm9dO4a7yImNXEmXLwM7xvtyGhDdomZMfVEpE8wRLqRw2PXIjmLnFFLVTHwo4-4AJNYfvM8maL4nQU2ye2nulZ2VSjrdT6hvrbbLUlwPbMIXUCHrAI9FTsyOUNVXAHMMJ8VfcjniqC7zmRMrpFcFrcdSgQEf7K2ag4wUF_qw_dIt45dxtA4-SadUoLvCHRmqgXIGHFnU6f4A36Yjzxji38H-njzDx7puU4H68TAtdkVQP-fr4y5nopoemmxGHZxsbVrHA9CX_QWHp_sDug0t5GU5mtPwlD_gc1kJasmAe5iLT8u0c7Uq1Vl4e-qtjjrYai8-7XkuokTZuj9nhR0i07Ec91rZvsKOp5TcMZEEt-09LtrpgE-eIdt9ZLOvcWE-fwXb4evmKLT1kYnuSpoMXGx5vZEJ7jBQ/https%3A%2F%2Flinuxconfig.org%2Fhow-to-install-adobe-acrobat-reader-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux
> WARNING
> Please note that Adobe no longer supports Acrobat Reader for Linux. The 
> latest native Linux version is 9.5.5 dated from 26/04/2013. From this reason 
> you should refrain using/installing Adobe Acrobat Reader to avoid potential 
> vulnerabilities and hacker exploits. You are recommended to consider 
> installation of Adobe Acrobat Reader on Wine.
>
> There are numerous alternative PDF viewers on Linux. See "poppler".
> I doubt that they support the .pdx indices.
>
> -- gil
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