I'm not talking about a linear search within a single file (or "find" in
Acrobat terminology). The Linux version of Acrobat Reader can do that. I
mean it can't make use of the index (word) database that Acrobat Catalog
produces that allows rapid searching of a collection of documents. I don't
believe xpdf has any support for that either.
I should make it clear that you can display/print the ARRL PDF products
(2000 Handbook, Antenna Book CD 1.0, 1999 ARRL Periodicals CD) using Acrobat
Reader 4.x for Linux. You just can't make use of the searchable index, so
full-text searching (which I think is one of the principal benefits of
electronic books) isn't quick or easy.
Jon, KE3Z
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Jon Bloom, KE3Z
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(Software, CD-ROMs and Web site)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jochen Kmietsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 12:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: ARRL Poll online
>
>
> Hello !
>
> On 22-May-00 Bloom, Jon, KE3Z wrote concerning RE: ARRL Poll online:
> > changed our CD-ROM books to PDF format. Now if Adobe would
> only provide a
> > version of Acrobat Reader for Linux that includes the
> Search plug in, we'd
> > be all set.)
>
> Xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/) can search in PDF-Files
> and is much faster
> (though it has less features) than Acrobat. It's worth a
> try, I think. With
> some work you can get much faster antialiased PDF displaying.
>
> Jochen
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> "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about
> life. It goes on."
> - Robert Frost
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