Jack Rogers wrote

>Just got Acrobat 3.0 and created a catalog. Pretty straightforward. Now
>the question is what the heck does it do? I didn't notice any increase in
>search speed nor did a search scan through about 9 PDF files I had
>included in the catalog. Nor could I find an index list anywhere. I was
>hoping it would create a clickable index list...

This may not apply, but did you select the index before running the search?
To the right of the button for a usual non-indexed search is a button which
should get a box headed 'Adobe Acrobat Search', with a button marked
'indexes'. Click this for a chance to select the index.

Then the buttons going right should show either the selection of documents
or move to the next or previous occurance of the word.

Try starting with the help file and the word 'catalog' if only as this seems
to work.

The advantage could be to publish data as directories. Even 4D on a Mac may
not be obvious to all users.

Will Pollard
itc@geo2.poptel.org.uk