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Topic: Re: Backward compatibility (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Conferences, Msg: 100972
From: LeonardR
Date: 11/20/2003 03:03 AM

At 2:49 AM +1100 11/20/03, p-pdf-conferences Listmanager wrote:
> > They don't on Mac OS X, but then they didn't work with Mac OS
> > X in Acrobat 5 (as it's an OS issue NOT an Acrobat issue).
>
>Beg to differ, Leonard,
>
>This MUST be considered to be an Acrobat issue. Apparently, Adobe has
>not been willing or able (probably both) to implement Search for
>Acrobat 5 under OS X.
>

You want to get specific, Max - you got it ;).

Acrobat 5 (and earlier) catalog/indexing is based on the
Verity search engine. Adobe licensed this only in binary form (ie.
no source code). Verify does not offer a Mac OS X version of their
library - hence Adobe was unable to provide a Mac OS X version of the
plugin.

So it IS an OS issue, since the supplier of the technology
that Adobe choose to use many years ago does not offer a Mac OS X
version of their software :(. Fortunately, Adobe now has a source
license for their new indexing engine so this problem won't happen
in the future.


Leonard
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