Cory,

You forgot to mention that, if you want to take advantage of Field features
in Catalog and Search, you need to create your own, customized, version of
Search, which (last time I looked) requires a fairly expensive SDK.

Tom Thiersch
SOLUTIONS Software Corporation


At 08:31 AM 11/12/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Lee/Karen Roesner wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have been looking for information on Adobe Catalog. I can not find
>> anything on Adobe's site. We are trying to find how extensive the search
>> capabilities are using PDF file formats on CD.
>>
>> Any info would be appreciated.
>
>The product you will need, until 3.0 is released (and shipping, that is)
>is Acrobat Search for CD-ROMs. There is a brochure (in PDF, of course)
>on Adobe's web site.
>
>Since the brochure does not in fact tell you anything of substance, you
>would be interested in knowing the following:
>
> * Acrobat Search allows you to search on the full text of a document.
> Anything that you could select as text will be searchable in this
>way.
>
> * It will also allow fielded searching on the Document Info fields,
> which are title, author, subject, keywords, creation date, and
> modification date.
>
> * You can, by manually configuring Catalog, add customized fields in
> string, numeric, or date formats, to your search index.
>
> * All of the above support boolean search logic.
>
> * The following search aids are present: a customized word assist list
> that is based on the terms that actually appear in the documents, a
> thesaurus, proximity ("two words appear within 3 pages of each
>other"),
> word stemming, and a phonetic database ("search for words that sound
> like "cattle").
>
>That is a pretty complete description of the information you need.
>
>I don't work for Adobe. (Although a reimbursement would be nice after
>this post!)
>
>Cory Snavely
>The Beacon Group
>
>