Dov wrote:
>>
Although the Reader and Acrobat installers do not prohibit such
installations, we most strongly recommend against concurrent installations
of any combination of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat of the same or
different versions.

No, it will not "ruin" you system such that you will need to reformat your
hard drive, but you would likely experience some unexpected behaviour from
one or the other components until ALL have been totally uninstalled!
>>
Dov, two points:
1. The fact that, starting with version 6 and how a search index is created,
compared to previous versions causes a real dilemma. Users with the full
version of, say, Acrobat 5.0.5 installed, can not read search indexes
created with versions 6 or 7.
If I create a CD, and have a license to distribute Reader with it, I can
only distribute the most current version. So that is what I have to use to
catalog the PDFs on the CD, version 6 or 7. The CD is received and the only
way the user can use search is to install version 6 or 7 Reader. They don't
want to pay to upgrade the full version at this time, so they have to
install a more current version of Reader, yet you say Adobe strongly
recommends against that. If I want users with earlier versions of Acrobat
to be able to use my CDs then I must include an index created with Acrobat 5
or earlier. If I want users with current versions (6 or 7 in this case) to
use my CDs, I have to include and index created with version 6 or later.
This doesn't even get into the cross-platform issue between OSX and OS9
platforms. Yes, I could put two indexes on the CD and explain how users can
attach one or the other each time they want to use the CD, but that's about
it. Its not possible to have them run Reader from the CD so what is a
creator of CDs supposed to do so users can take advantage of all of the
Reader functions no matter what is installed on their system?

This has been a sore spot with me since I expected that basic functions such
a linking, searching across multiple documents, etc. would be maintained
across all versions. I've gotten used to this and tell users they must use
version 6 or 7 to use my CDs. But it still leaves the issue users
experience.

2. The Acrobat support knowledgebase, Document 326272 discusses coexisting
installations and version interoperability. It mentions what you said in the
coexisting installion section but it appears to be referring more to
installing the full Acrobat version 7. I say that because below that, in the
version interoperability section, is a table that says it is OK (Allow is
actually what it says) to install Adobe Reader 7 without removing the
installed full version of Acrobat 5.x and both versions will function.

I may be reading something into this but it looks to me like this is my only
viable soultion: To include version 7 on my CDs and ask users to install it
so they can search. If I'm missing something here please clarify it.

Thanks for all you help on this and other forums.

Regards,
Glenn Heckard



Point 2 tell me it is OK to do what I am






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