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There is no support for the Verity-created indexes under OSX, and there (most likely) never will be.
Adobe and/or Verity never cared about OSX versions for this search utility. It could be that by the time Adobe came out with Acrobat 5.05 (which runs under OSX), it already has been decided to go for another search engine, or ... see above.
Your workaround is most likely the best you can do.
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I wonder how the situation would have been handled if it were for windoof?
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Hope, this can help.
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When I purchased my upgrade to Acrobat 6.0.0 in mid 2003, my initial testing identified several fatal problems which have prevented me from using it. These were reported to Adobe and acknowledged.
I have just installed my updates for Acrobat Pro 6.0.1 and Reader 6.0.1 and I find that one serious problem remains:
On MAC OSX with Reader 6.0.1, there is NO backward compatibility for search indexes created using Acrobat 5. You get a warning about a damaged index, and are asked to rebuild it.
This issue does not exist on PC-Windows platform. Backward compatibility
is OK on PC-Windows platform.
I have done some research and I find that:
On PC-Windows Acrobat 6.0.1, there are two SEARCH plugins: search.api from LexTek for the new format of search index search5.api from Verity for the old format of search index
On Mac OSX, there is only one plugin - search.api from LexTek. This seems to be due to the lack of a verity search plugin for OSX.
Therefore, I ask the question:
Will Acrobat 6.0+ on Mac OSX ever support old search indexes created using Acrobat 5 and earlier ? Or will this issue just be ignored until it goes away?
Personally, I would settle for a warning dialog which says that ("The attached index is not available on Mac OSX due to lack of suitable plugin") or similar, instead of an error dialog which makes the publisher (me) seem at fault.
I have an experimental solution which works but is not ideal. I have
constructed a PDF document which uses javascript to determine the
version of reader running, and mount either a V5 search index or
a V6 search index. However, the mounted index name does not appear in
the BASIC SEARCH OPTIONS pane of Acrobat 6.0.1. However, its name is
in the list of currently selected indexes in the ADVANCED SEARCH OPTIONS
pane of Acrobat 6.0.1.
It seems that the only way to make the search index appear in the BASIC SEARCH OPTIONS pane is to list it in the DOCUMENT PROPERTIES SEARCH INDEX field, but this will force you to hardwire either a V5 or V6 index, and so the javascript loses its usefullness.
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